Lots going down this coming week. For one thing, it’s Masters Week, my favorite professional golf week of the year. On the weekends, I’ll set up a Bloody Mary bar for me and Tracey, and we’ll watch the before, during and after proceedings on Saturday and Sunday with cocktails and a special lunch on Saturday (usually Harvey’s Specials) and on Sunday a big breakfast with all the trimmings. I sure hope I get to see it all in a stress-free environment.

I mention this because it’s also a big week at the Client-Who-Shall-Remain-Nameless – the first of three weeks where I’m hoping all the work we’ve been planning for over the past two months to fix everything that ails that client finally gets put into motion. There’s a lot riding on what’s about to happen because a lot of folks think all the ongoing issues they’ve been having will be fixed and everything that ails them will be cured with a single magic bullet of changing file formats. Will it? My personal feeling is no, and it’s still 50/50 that our solution in place since December will be yanked and the lawsuits will start flying. All I – and my team – can do is control what we can control, start making things happen this week, and try not to f**k things up any more than we have to date. Next weekend should be one filled with a lot of activity – hopefully good activity that will allow me to enjoy the Masters without a laptop in my, well, lap. We shall see.

Last but not least on the list is taxes. I’ve done my part to get everything where Tracey needs them, now it’s her turn to bring the ship into port.

It’ll be interesting to see what things look like on all of these fronts come a week from now.