May 7. Sunday Night.

Hi Journey.

Decent weekend—at least I am starting to really feel that way about it now. It didn't start out that way. I had a dreadful time sleeping on Friday night. No, Journey, not bad dreams; I just couldn't get to sleep. I halfway-watched a couple re-runs of Law and Order: Criminal Intent , but kept dozing off in the middle and then that just ruins the end plus I kept missing Eames' quips so I turned on CNN and just let it drone me to sleep.

So I didn't get down to the shop any before eleven Saturday morning. Still, had a good day. Reviewed the presentation for the Open House, looked over a couple proposals Dana and Viv put together and finished up by reviewing accounts receivable. Odd, but Joni had neglected to include two of the larger balances. Well, I guess that's why we back each other up in a small office. Not a bad balance of paperwork chores.

Joni had left me a voicemail; time stamp was just after ten. I suppose she thought I would have been in by nine—I'm becoming way too predictable on my weekend work habits. She wanted to know if it was OK if she pulled down a vacation day Monday. She told me to call her cell if it wasn't. Of course, it was fine by me; I just hope she sorts through whatever was going on earlier in the week. Who knows, maybe her and Brady took off on a getaway weekend.

I hope they get past the bedroom door.

Eddie tore himself away from the new shopping cart project long enough to take me to the new Mission Impossible show. Pretty decent, as action flicks go. I'm not a huge TC fan, but he's cute for an older guy. My mom's still pretty busted up that he broke up with Nicole Kidman; I don't think she's forgiven him yet.

But the heat's off for Eddie, at least for a while. He's delivered the next modules to the VC masters and actually took time to go out cruising in that new pickup of his.

I guess clients are always the boss, Journey. No matter if it's a lawyer here ripping up her kitchen and starting fresh or a venture capitalist out in San Jose , we have to keep them satisfied.

Of course, every client's perception is different. Eddie tells me with these guys it's just huge to hit the deadlines they've set—even if some of the code isn't 100% perfect. They'll just go ahead and market the product, then wait for users to supply feedback on glitches that weren't discovered at the time of release. Eddie says that's what patches and version 2.0 is for.

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