Can you at least slow down to 55?

Here's an update from the last few days. It seems that everyone lately isn't updating their website svery often because they are so busy. Eric, Olivia, Bria - oh wait. Brian still updates his site everyday. I wonder why is it that everyone is so busy right now. Or maybe I started a trend of only updating my website every few days. I think most of my problem is a lack of energy lately. And this goes back to a previous post I made about the vicious circle or life, energy, and time. I just did a search back through my site to try to find that entry where I talked about there not being enough hours in the day. And ya know what I found? A BUNCH of entries with me complaining about there not being enough time to get done what I want (and need) to get done. Jeez, I feel like a whinner now. But, seriously, it's a vicious circle because you stay up late so that you can get your work done, then you wake up late, have no energy, don't get much accomplished during the day until late at night you finally have energy to do get things done at which point it's late again. *sigh*

On another note, we finally got Olivia's car back Wednesday night. The final damage report? $8000. Folks, I highly doubt her car is worth much more than $8000 (no offense to her car, because it drives really nicely). Everything seemed fine as she was driving it home, until she rounded a corner and the "Check Engine" and traction control lights came on in her gauge cluster. She immeadiately called and I immeadiately called the body shop (probably even before she got home). They told us to bring it back in today that they'd get it correct. I also called her insurance company and requested that the insurance pay for us to take it to a Chevrolet dealership and get Chevrolet EXPERTS to look over the car and make sure everything is correct. The insurance guy was really nice and said that they have a policy for this. It states that we must give the body shop at least one more shot at getting the car correct and then if something is still wrong, we can take it to a dealership and either insurance or the body shop will pay for it. (I meant to post all of this LAST night, but ran out of time..and energy. Ever fallen asleep while waiting for Windows 2000 to install Sevice Pack 2?)

We picked up the car this evening and everything seems to be fixed. I just hope they didn't take the easy road and jjust remove the two bulbs from inside the dash. The body shop guy said that they replaced a sensor that had come unhooked and replaced the entire sensor, just to make sure. He seems honest and sincere, so I suppose I have no reason not to believe him.

Work continues on the big Extranet project at work. I've secluded myself to a far-away corner of the building where it's nice and quiet with no phone. I've gotten a lot accomplished, but still have lots more work to do. I'm feeling a little burnt out on web work lately. Perhaps I'm just feeling burnt out in general. None of it really seems exciting right now. Maybe I'm just tired and need sleep.

Oh, can't forget: For those of you whom I didn't talk to today, CapitolMac announced that it went out of business today. Pretty abrupt. They will be having an inventory closeout sale this Saturday to clear out the store. Pretty sad. However, from the stories I've heard, there's more than meets the eye with this story. It's kinda scary to think that I almost worked there. I'm so incredibly glad I didn't, and not just for today's reason. It's funny how fate carries you along. Farewell, CapitolMac, and good luck to all of the Mac people who lost their jobs today. Read more over on MacNN...