CMP Turns 1

Let's just pretend, for the sake of my mental health, that the CMP was born really, really late at night.

When my blog (this one) reached its one-year mark, I didn't even notice until a few days after the fact. And I called it an anniversary.

The CMP is having a birthday. It felt right and different. And there's no way I could have forgotten. I've been thinking about it and looking forward to it for months. I fully planned to record the show yesterday so I could edit it today and get it out the door early (so I could then turn my attention to posting the bags for sale). So how is it 9:57PM and the show is still not live on the day of the 1-year-birthday? Long story. And life. And tempers. And tears. And technology. Please make SURE you enjoy the 15 minute retrospective pastiche. That was something I really wanted to do - but it ended up being a bit of a technical nightmare (read: my system crashed over and over and over again in protest at the file I'd dumped everything into over the last week or so). All in all, I've been hard at work on and off all day - recording and redoing the retrospective piece by piece and editing the audio. The file is "burning" right now (which takes close to an hour), and then I have to ftp it over... which will take another 45 minutes or so. And then I can post the show notes and then update the RSS feed for iTunes.

I'm bone-dead tired, honestly. But, it's coming... and I'm determined to make it all happen before the close strikes 12 here. Determined. Because it matters to me.

And, those bags... I'll be working on making those live and for sale on THIS site tomorrow.

Update: Okay... it's 11:01 here... and it's live, and the newsletter has been sent out. I started working on loading up the bags while the FTP was in progress. If I could, I'd sit here and do that tonight, but I just can't. Not today. It's been a long one, and a very up-and-down one. I'm headed in to crash with one boy's GameBoy and Pokemon until I fall asleep. Please know.... I didn't answer anyone's emails today... or acknowledge many. I'll be back in touch tomorrow. Thanks to the few of you, too, who have commented at Flickr on the little girl in the boat sketch and "like" it.