May I just whine for a moment?

It's been a long, strange, intense week at work. A release of Windows—I mean, Windows, for god's sake—was delayed on behalf of one of the little programs I work on. (No David and Goliath comments, please.) Needless to say, this made for a lot of mad scrambling that spanned the globe, with a whole lot of people going "Retail who?"

So, my stress level has been up there in the mesosphere, mostly because I spent most of the week waiting on the edge of my seat for this important person and that other important person and let's not forget their bosses to give me the go-ahead to do some writing on this subject, knowing with every breath that it could become completely why-wasn't-this-done-yesterday urgent at any moment.

And then I got home, finally, with great relief, with great anticipation, ready to connect with my family and have a weekend. And Frank settled in front of one TV, and Chloe settled in front of another TV, and MJ fell asleep, and I'm left with... well... you people. Don't get me wrong, I'm endlessly glad you're here, but I was figuring on more than electronic company.

Then again, I have a nice fat paycheck to look forward to, and my stated plan for this evening was to read something unrelated to computers.

So why don't you go do that then?

Thanks, I will.