Happiness in completion...
I've been having trouble writing here due to a profound depression over the last week or so. It may be just something that comes up every now and then for me, but, on the other hand, there's plenty of causes as well: having a 11-day sore throat; feeling hopeless about promoting the Eugene Weblogger Meetup; having continuing conflicts with our renters to the point of needing to write an eviction notice; and feeling disconnected from Anne Marie as she works very hard to catch up on her school work.
Work hasn't been so satisfying lately, either, but I feel like I do have a chance to get some satisfaction there. In the last month, I've been "growing projects", with things starting, but never finishing, leading to a bit of overload. Lots of things: getting my check-authorization-system software certified has taken over a month due to delays beyond my control; important changes to our online sales system had derailed my project to set up a company chat server (resulting in neither project being finished); the big project with Keith making painfully slow progress due to illness and (thankfully) better input from the users.
The good news in that bad news is that there's plenty of opportunity to complete work. Crossing something off your to-do list is always mood-lifting. So, this weekend, I completed the half of the online sales system upgrade that I have control over. Today, we put the check approval system into use company-wide. And, today I wrote over half of the documentation for the chat server system.
Despite slaving over making the chat server documentation as useful and readable as possible, it's dubious that anyone will read more than a few paragraphs of it. No one reads documentation, especially Mac users. But, that is of no consequence. The real reason for the hard work on it is that it's the last step before finishing the project. Oh, and it will give me great pleasure to smugly point people to the documentation for the next 3 years as they ask questions before reading it. Hah! 
Here's hoping that you get something off of your to-do list today!
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