Late Night

September 10, 2007

I stayed up all night working on my business website.  I am utterly exhausted.  I tried to stay awake with caffeine [Diet Coke] which I now dislike with a passion.  Never one to really drink soft drinks I must say that drinking enough to stay awake was a rather disgusting experience.

At any rate, my plans to work on my business website were foiled numerous times.  First, the ZenCart template was horrible and continued to not do what it should do based on the code.  But it appeared that the custom template was making calls to other pages that were inconsistent with what is typical.  So, I had to scrap that.  I moved on to osCommerce but it was lacking in features compared to ZenCart (it’s sister cart) and I had a number of other problems that I had with ZenCart.  Finally, I settled on CubeCart - which I had actually dealt with long ago and did not have a problem with it.  It is less robust than ZenCart but that’s not necessarily a bad thing - especially when I am crazy from lack of sleep.  Fortunately, I actually have the website operational.  I just need to add the stock and photos of the products then I will be ready.  I suspect everything will be [properly] finished by tomorrow.  I would hate to launch when I am crazy from lack of sleep.

In retrospect, I realize now that I am just too old to pull all-nighters like I used to do as almost everynight.

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Lack of email & other work related things

June 29, 2007

For the first time in many months all of my email has been answered and attended to and I have nothing - absolutely nothing - in my inbox.  Today has been extraordinarily hectic to say the least.  I had a bushel of emails to answer, 140 lbs of fabric being delivered, a seamstress with a broken sewing machine who needed to use my not so great sewing machine, a seamstress dropping off bags, a seamstress attempting to sew bags after showing up really really late when I had an appointment to go to, a hair appointment, a purchase of a new sewing machine, website work, and other things I cannot even remember.

The sewing machine that I bought is a Brother with an onboard computer.  It does a number of fancy stitches that might come in handy for something.  More importantly it is all computerized and handles a myriad of details so that I do not have to think about them.

My seamstress got absolutely nothing done today.  She sat in my office and yapped and I got almost nothing done except for a few emails.  She also brought her son who was loud and obnoxious.  I seriously don’t need that in my office.

At least tomorrow I can watch two uninterrupted hours of Sherlock Holmes (The Hound of the Baskervilles) - that will be a welcome relief.

But tonight, we will do our regular workout of pain after this exhausting day.

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