Today was actually pretty good day.

Work was generally good; my 10am meeting was cancelled, which was wonderful, because it’s always a slog, and we’d spent two hours yesterday in an ad-hoc meeting discussing the same project anyway. I also spent some more time running some more numbers on my interminable budget nightmare, and proved that my particular project definitively gave back more than half a million dollars of our alloted budget each year I’ve been in charge, so I have actual numerical proof that I’m not a wastrel like the rest of them. Even with this new request I’m putting in (because they gave me more work to do!), I’m still way under my previously approved but apparently no longer valid upper limit.

My boss also checked in and passed on his thanks for making such a good case for the program, and that thanks to all my crap, we have a good story to tell the folks upstairs. Like I said yesterday, if they decide to screw us, it’s not because we didn’t make an excellent case.

That felt nice.

Additionally, I went out for lunch and determined that the optimal burrito configuration at Chipotle is half chicken, half chorizo, with black beans and fajita vegetables. Try it. Seriously.

After my work day, the youngest and I went out for a nice five miler bike ride on one of the trails at a nearby riverside park, which was a nice refreshing time outside while the weather’s still nice. Sure, her bike dropped a pedal (the bolt that goes into the crank was stripped, and as I didn’t do that part of the assembly the other week, I didn’t notice) on mile four, but we’ll get that sorted out – I’ll just put a new set of pedals on it tomorrow.

Since then, I’ve been home, just chilling out, sitting next to the kid reading my book, while she reads Prisoner of Azkaban, because she asked me to be nearby so she could “get through the scary part”. Sometimes being a dad is cool.

Oh, and as I’m currently up to date on everything I owe everyone at the office this week, or will be by tomorrow mid-day once I finish the pleasure of completing a past performance survey for my contractor to include in a bid for another contract – I say pleasure becuase they’re great people who do awesome work and consistently make me look like I know what I’m doing (it also helps keep them gainfully employed because grumblegrumble I might not have the budget to keep them all come next month)…anyway, since I’m all caught up with that, I’m taking Friday off, because dammit, I deserve a little break after the crap I’ve put up with.