I finally handed in the industry analysis paper that’s been consuming my life for the past four weeks, and as a result the coming weekend is looking kind of… open.

Kind of. There’s still a lot of work to do around the house, and a few hundred reception photos that need to be sorted and optimized. But for a few days, at least, I’m won’t have to be be constantly under the gun for everything. Lisa, baby and I should actually be able to spend some quality time this weekend, which will be nice.

Also up this weekend: Thank you notes, baby-proofing, and, hopefully, finally finishing off the office.

Speaking of the industry analysis paper, I just want to say Google Docs is pretty cool, except for when it’s temporarily offline. Or giving vague error messages. Like today. Two hours before I had to hand in the paper. Which hadn’t been printed. And required a few last-minute edits from others working on it.

After about an hour and a half of pulling out my hair wondering why our 32-page report wasn’t pulling up when everything else I had in Docs was showing up fine, I finally realized the problem: Google Doc’s autosave feature saved the error message over the report. Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick. Why is something like that even possible?

Fun times, yes.