Thank you for all checking back while I worked on my project for my day job this weekend. I had actually planned on blogging a bit in the early mornings and late evenings, but starting on Thursday night until today, my days have lasted more than fifteen hours of constant trouble-shooting and preparation for the project. Unfortunately, that left me little time for reading news sources and none at all for writing. I haven't even had an opportunity to catch up on all of the excellent comments entered on the site.

Without getting terribly specific about my work, which I like to keep as separate as possible from my blogging, I run a 24x7 call center in the Twin Cities area. Thanks to the terrific executive team for which I work, our business has grown tremedously over the years, and we finally outgrew our offices. Last year we decided to relocate, but we could not find appropriate space until four months ago -- and we had to move my the end of this month.

Call centers involve a tremendous amount of technology, including computers, telecommunications, and especially when the business can tolerate no down time at all, these technologies present ... interesting challenges. I think I can give you an idea of how my weekend went when I say that this is one of the most interesting few days I've had on the job. However, after several days of nerve-fraying obstacles and nail-biting tension, the main part of the project went off quite successfully.

Unfortunately, this has left me utterly exhausted -- and we still have a lot of physical work to do to complete the move. I plan on spending tonight catching up on reading and getting the first good night of sleep I've had in a week, and then get back to my regular blogging schedule tomorrow morning.

Earlier today, Bill Ardolino asked me to appear on his Citizen Journalist radio show on Thursday afternoon. I'm looking forward to chatting about Canada, blogging, and the tension between the GOP libertarians and conservatives. I hope you can all join us!

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