The Adventures of Cowboy Hazel

Today marks the end of the first half of 2008. I find this completely impossible. I’m going to turn 25 in less than two weeks and my marathon is already less than 5 months away! It just seems like I can’t keep up.

Anyway, this will be short because I am, as seems to always be the case lately, completely swamped with work. I put in over 90 hours of work last week! Part of it was that I picked up a rush job on for a luxury housing development in Tucson. I completely revamped the website (there’s still a few more things to do) and now I am working on a big paid search & SEO campaign to drive traffic. It’s exciting because the advertising budget I’ll be working with is considerably bigger than anything I’ve ever done before. I’m anxious to see what happens when you put real money into AdWords. So, part of that is getting all the analytics and tracking stuff setup which is going to take a bunch of work.

Plus, we’re getting close to the deadline for the Flopalongs project and I still have a monstrous amount of work to do on that, so that has been taking up a pretty big chunk of time too. I totally underestimated how much work that was going to take. And, as always, I’m putting in big hours for Precision Prospects. I just launched a big new real-time lead receiver system a week ago so that they can accept leads from their publishers with less hassle and less lag time. It has been a crazy week there because of that.

And, if that weren’t enough, I’ve still been trying to make some progress on my own publishing stuff — although that progress is not nearly what I had hoped it would be. I have a list of improvements a mile long that I want to make to my running log site. I keep getting great suggestions from fellow runners but don’t have the time to implement them.

Speaking of running, I managed to finish the month with 107.3 miles even though my stupidity in Philadelphia has left me with two severely bruised big toes. I was barely able to walk most of the week and took a couple extra rest days, but I seem to finally be doing better. I got a 9.5 mile run in yesterday and 4 today and my feet are actually feeling alright. It’s a nice change after being in horrible pain for a week.

Well, I need to get back to work, so that will be all. I just wanted to keep the world (or, more accurately, the very small portion of it who reads my blog) up to date on what’s been going on in my crazy life lately.