Saskatchewan Plates

Today was a mixed bag of emotions.

Step one: Sell the car – I actually lucked out and found a buyer within the company so I didn’t have to go through the hassle of craigslisting. On my final drive down to the valley, the vars aligned and my ipod generated one last classic top-down playlist. It included Justice (the first CD I ever played in the car), some road-trip Karaoke favorites like Sublime, the Two Koreas, and Corb Lund, and, while Don’t Stop Believing would have been a great ending song, the ipod chose Let it Die by Feist to pull into the parking lot one last time.

And like that, it belonged to someone else, keys and all. It’s a remarkable feeling to trade a sleek, designed marvel of technology for a thin slip of paper with a series of numbers printed on it.

Step two: Have a number of efforts at work fall through simultaneously – To a certain extent, I’m still trying to find my role on my new team. And, while I’ve been trying to stretch my legs a bit lately, a number of my proposals got blasted down in the span of a few hours, which left me reevaluating what I thought my role was.

Step three: Have hard work on my previous role pay off – Nice to hear that you’ve made an impact, which is impressive at a company that moves so fast that it’s hard to keep up let alone leave a mark.

Step four: Night plans fall through – Traffic and public transit conspire to scrap plans on the town, and with no feasible plan B I stayed in to…

Step five: Re-live childhood by playing old SNES games – I dug out the classics: Mario Kart, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, Zelda. I definitely did not play through all of them. But they all triggered flashbacks to simpler times.

Therefore, emotional rollercoaster.

I would like to say I’m going to have time to decompress, but I think I’ll be in the office Saturday and then helping out with recruiting Sunday. And next weekend is a return trip to Vegas, which should be the end of travel until the return trip to the frozen tundra to celebrate the calendricly related births of both Christ and myself.