Aside from losing a ton of money on paper again today (what's the suicide rate on Wall Street lately?), it was a suboptimal day.
First off, despite four interviews that I thought went pretty well, I didn't get that job that I put off the other job for. That was a serious kick in the nuts. I know the company is pretty high end, but I didn't think it was out of my league, even if I'd be a low-man. Fortunately, the other guy that I was putting off to see where the failed opportunity was going to go wants to see me tomorrow. So hopefully he isn't calling me in just to tell me to go fuck myself. :)
It's almost like I saw it coming, because I slept poorly again last night. I've been living in my head a lot lately, I guess because I've got anxiety about getting back to work. I'm worried that if I don't get back in soon, I'll get behind paying for travel, carpet and my various toys.
Then I had an issue with a site that I built and host four years ago and continue to support for free, which is frustrating to no end. It's not inconvenient enough to say, "Go take it off my hands," but I hate when a bunch of constraints prevent me from improving it. It's a combination of ancient code built on ancient .NET v1.1, and less than great practices I followed back then.
Fortunately, things got a little better when I discovered my search engine optimization gains. That has been a goal of mine for some time. After getting the hot tub cleaned up and refilled, I did a little more diagnostic work around my server, and was pleased to see it was running under load at around 8% CPU usage and no disk bottlenecking. I even hacked out a little blog entry about building a QuickTime component in ASP.NET. These things certainly helped me feel better about my ability today.
So tomorrow is about a possible employment meeting in the morning, and in the afternoon I'm going to CP to shoot a mini-doc on the creation of various Halloweekends attractions.
I didn't just have one of my intestines ripped out or anything, so that's a dose of perspective. My house wasn't flooded by a hurricane either. On a scale of bad days, mine wasn't that terrible.
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