March 27, 2026

I spend a good part of my working life handling the business side of things for other people: the paperwork, the setup, the details that others don’t want to deal with so they can focus on what they actually do. I’m generally good at it. So when it came time to do the same thing for Macchi’s Den, I thought I had it handled. Turns out doing it for yourself doesn’t mean it’s not as frustrating as doing it for others. 

Today I walked into a scheduled meeting at the bank with everything I thought I needed to open the business account. I had asked ahead of time, I had prepared, I had a whole schedule built around getting this done today. And I walked out without an account. This set-back sat poorly with me for most of the day. It’s good for other people that I work from home.

It turns out that something was missing that nobody had mentioned before I came in. And now it may be a week or more before I can get this done. That week or more matters.  I wanted to have everything set to launch end of April. I have a reward set for myself once I can take a break, and now it may be delayed.  I’m going to do all I can to meet that deadline, but I have to start adjusting expectations whether I like it or not.

So I did what I do to keep myself sane. I went back to my work and got a lot done. Then I stepped completely off topic and learned something new and just for me, nothing to do with publishing. Getting my brain fully absorbed in something unrelated is like a reset button. When I come back, I come back from a better place. And I came back and got to work towards the book launch, and writing this post.

For now I’m pushing forward on everything I can actually control right now.