I didn't get a chance to post anything yesterday (Saturday). What happened was, on Friday afternoon, my BAFO client had sent me a bunch of stuff to work on, but by around 8 PM Friday night they decided that there was no way they were going to be able to get the proposal out that night. So we all stopped work and began again on Saturday morning.
I had two pieces left to do on Saturday, and got up early to work on them. I thought I was finished. But no -- more pieces kept arriving and there were several phone calls to discuss various responses and strategies. Then they sent along an organization chart that they had done and asked me to fix it up. It was quite a mess. I'm not sure how this chart had been done, but I could not get the lines and boxes ungrouped. Every time I tried to delete a line or move a box, stuff would disappear. I finally gave up and created a totally new chart, but that took a couple of extra hours. Fortunately, this client doesn't really care how much time I use to get work done for them. They always give me many more hours or days than I actually use.
So instead of having a Saturday free from work, I ended up working most of the day. Not what I had expected, but this is what you get when you work with proposals.
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