The past three weeks have been INSANELY busy, much more than I anticipated. A couple weeks ago I estimated and sent out some bids on some very large project at my office. Last week I switched to a "working vacation" out West to fill 6 months worth of open-to-buys with my wife for her store. It was a tough one this time to fill all the OTBs with things we were happy with (but we did it). While there I found out I probably won both jobs which represent probably 20% of our business for the year, and have been tweaking numbers and spreadsheets non-stop since then to button things up and lock them down.

Still have a bit more to do today but I feel like I'm out of the woods with the one finished up and the easier one left to do, but any relief I'd have felt shall be postponed as my boss signed me up to give a presentation and sit on a panel in front of a few hundred peeps at a tech conference hosted by one of our bigger clients on Friday:

ecib: "Setting aside the fact that I hate public speaking, what exactly is this conference about and what is my role to be?

boss: "Not sure. They wanted us to present something and I just said "yeah" and signed you up. You know more about this stuff than me."

ecib: "..."

boss: "It'll be fine, just sit up there and say smart things."

ecib: "Not cool at all dude."

The presentation is Friday, I've been out of town for a week, and one of my biggest pet peeves is having to speak to a group where I don't feel 1000% prepared to deliver on the topic. I still don't have any details other than a general theme (technology in k12 education).

So my brain is already deeply fried, and I've got to wing this presentation (which will be fine frankly, but I won't be at ease till it's over). I rarely feel this way, but this is one week were I'll be looking forwards to Saturday.

It's all good though :D