The Last Week Always Goes Quickly

So, Wednesday was my last day as a full-time employee of Meritide. As of yesterday, I'm back to being the only employee of Pragmapool, Inc. with billable work to kick in again on Monday.

Even though the last 2 weeks on any contract or job are of far lower stress than those that immediately precede it, wrapping things up and transitioning stuff off to other people keeps things busy. On top of that, there's been a lot of offline stuff going on in the last week. Much of that is now either taken care of or delegated.

• The new dishwasher is delivered, installed and has done 2 loads of dishes already.
• I've got the neighbor kid to agree to keep our lawn mowed until it stops growing this fall.
• The knocked over tree in the front yard has been cut down and disassembled.
• The carpets have been steam-cleaned with the new and improved replacement steamer.
• My office is nearly clean enough to work in.
• Paperwork for the new contract has been signed.
• Financial and payroll setup for the new contract has been started.
• Bank of America interest rate extortion has been ended. Despite no missed payments, a credit score above 700 and no other cards causing a problem, my card with them suddenly had a 24% interest rate. Their "solution" was to drop it down to 20% when I called. My solution was to get a different card.
• UPS and TigerDirect have been straightened out about the replacement cellphone that was shipped to my old address and it should be arriving today.
• Because I'll be doing more user interface design in my new contract, I ordered a cheap tablet PC for doing wireframe meetings, notes, etc.
• The Geo Tracker is mostly cleaned out, washed and waxed to get it ready to be sold.
• I put an ad on Craigslist to get rid of my pickup topper.
• Somehow I managed to get a nice day of relaxation in yesterday, including watching the rest of the Black Books TV series that I've been going through.

Whew.