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Milestone achieved

Despite the power blinking out and the Internet being down for the bulk of the day, I worked hard today, hit a programmer’s high, held the buzz, and came to a good place on my current project. Some of the stress has actually rolled off my shoulders and I feel good about the project. Now I can reabsorb the stress regarding the absurdities in my life right now. Tomorrow will be back to bureaucracy! I will have to spend a bunch of time on the phone and am thinking I may need to dust off the business cards of some old lawyer friends of mine. The next couple of weeks promise to age me by several years.

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State of Me

On the brink of lunacy. The stress right now is beyond description. My golden plan for this year has fallen to pieces. We were supposed to take a right at the last fork in the river which would have led to calm waters. One of my boats has sunk and now we are in cascading rapids and fighting the current to keep from barreling over the waterfall’s edge. We devoured most of our remaining rations at the last camp and our dry bag with our wallets washed out of the boat on the last class 5 rapid which doesn’t matter because who knows when we will see another trading post! Is everyone wearing their life jackets?