Today was a terrible day. I already knew I was going to get screwed from staying up yesterday. That prediction came true. I got all the eBay orders packed up and out to my car, running a bit late, and the stupid thing wouldn’t even start.

Now, I am already sleepy, jacked up caffeine, and still doing fairly well when I end up having to send an email that I won’t be going into work today due to car trouble.

I try not to do this too often, but wasting a day like this on a stupid reason isn’t too exciting. I did have an interview later today, which is a Skype interview. I thought at least I could get set up for that, even though the actual interview would have been well after I already came home, so it didn’t really matter.

The stupid interview as pushed out to next week. Even that wasn’t a valid reason not to go into work today. I did end up getting the car running and ran to the post office, but still, it wasn’t making me happy.

I was able to get to revising eBay auctions. I updated the price on a few that were still active and posted the others that were sold out and closed, but I still had items. I ended up posting about 14 listings and adding 31 more items available to be sold. At an average price of $10, that’s over $300 in additional sales I could receive.

I did do some client work. After making a breakthrough yesterday, I found another issue. Even though I am making a request to a third party and getting a response back, I lose the response before I go to use it.

After screwing around almost all day working on it, I found the issue, which was addressed with an update that was applied, but not configured. After doing the configuration, I got it working.

I did the status call saying I finally figured out the issue that we struggled with for 3 weeks, and then got yelled at because that was the only thing I did today, and I am behind schedule. Really looking forward to the project manager leaving.

In other new, I have been emailing the technical guy about the possibility of doing new client work, and ended up getting a signed contract, which was actually dated for yesterday.

I still have no work to actually do or even an environment to do the work, but at least having something signed gives the impression they plan on going forward with me doing the work.