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Talk about a day from heck(tic). Not that it couldn't have been worse. I hit the ground running as today was the deadline for employee reviews. We recently shifted from anniversary-date reviews to focal-point reviews, so that made the entire process more arduous.

We were also attempting to launch an application today, but unfortunately we failed. We had a number of problems that kept us from releasing. We could have certainly released anyway just to say we did, but I had way too many quality concerns. The delay should just be until tomorrow, but we had a successful demo on Friday and touted today as the big day pretty heavily, so we've got a small bit of egg on our face at the moment.

Sometime after 1pm I got a call from my dad. He collapsed at work with some kind of back spasm and had to be taken to the doctor. He asked me to go with my little brother to pick-up his car at work so it wouldn't sit there overnight.

So... after picking up the kids, dropping them at my dads, riding across town with my brother, and driving my dad's car back to this side of town (all in rush hour traffic by the way), you'd think I'd be done for the day. However, I had previously promised an uncle that I'd build him a computer tonight, as I'm soon to be rather unavailable.

I had previously acquired all the components, so only needed to spend a few hours this evening getting it all together, getting an OS on it and patched, putting all the software on it (particularly the security software), and then providing a little basic training. The kids had fallen asleep long before I had finished.

Okay, so maybe the day could have been MUCH worse, but I did feel at several points like I might pop at any time. And tomorrow is expected to be similarly hectic.