Hectic days

One of these crazy weeks trying to get everything in order before vacation this Saturday. I'll be "gone" for the next two weeks. As much as it's difficult for me lately not to think about work almost every hour of the day -- bills, project status, vendors, etc. I'm going to just tell myself, "OK Raph...just stack up the chips as high as you can this week and deal with how they fall when you come back in 2 weeks"

A little schitzo to be talking to myself like that isn't it?

But I kinda have to do that sometimes where I stop worrying about everything to death. Every business owner I've talked to has given me that recommendation. All work and no play is not a good idea.

It seems to be working. So far all my clients have been more then encouraging about me taking some time off. A few of them have already wished me a good time and told me not to worry about anything. That's nice of them.

Projects that need to be done are somewhat on schedule. I'm still suffering from clients with late payments but I guess that comes with the territory. I just have to keep eye on my budget for a while to ride out the cash flow. I know it's supposed to be a wise thing for a business to do to wait until the last minute to pay the bills....it just sucks being on the receiving end of that cycle.

This week I'll fire off a customer "Spring" newletter to tell my customers about my vacation schedule and show them my new websites. I think it will be fun to do some show & tell. Perhaps that will get some word out or encourage old customers to do some new work.

Doesn't feel like Spring though.... it's actually cool here lately. I would call it cold in fact. Of course I tell an old coworker in Ohio that I'm wearing a sweatshirt and long pants and she laughs at me. Right now she's suffering from minus temperatures up there and she's a popsicle.
So what...I'm COLD damnit :)

A week from now I'm doing the Aloha Run. 8.2 miles of running. Or more precisely this year I will be walking. Christy will be coming with me so it's just going to be a fun thing to do so that she can see the thousands of people doing this thing. I'm race number 13k something.

Well, time to take a break.... eat my fish shaped crackers and watch some TV.