Nano Day 2 – Frog legs, keeping my stride and Canada

Work intruded pretty heavily on everything. Several customer issues and beautiful weather sent me scurrying up 281 past highway 46, home of the Antler cafe. I sat at one of the picnic tables on the extended deck in front of the aging double wide and ordered me two helpings of froglegs. A crazily colored cat circled around and around, but didn’t get any. When I got back, I still did about 2.5 miles, down from my goal of 3 miles a day, on the treadmill before returning to work.

With a late night rally, I pulled a decent word count for the day. Just like the treadmill, I didn’t keep the pace of 3,000 words a day, but I did get close to 2,500 by midnight. It was like I had an internal shutoff switch today. It isn’t all pretty, but I’ll take it. Usually I’m still recovering from a horrible word count after the first two days. This time I’m well ahead of the curve for 50,000 by the end of the month.

A late breaking development is that I maybe flying to Toronto for an extended engagement at a customer site. Part of me is excited, part of me is nervous, part of me will hate being away that long. They are talking 9 consecutive days, 2 onsite, two back here working on deliverying solutions, and then 5 days the following week back on site. It’s going to chew up my schedule, but the boss is happy. Nice, simple flat rate fees to charge. We’ll see how it actually works out. I could be flying as soon as Monday.