the good news is, i bought you a new puppy. the bad news is, it's a dead puppy.

that's essentially the theme of my day today. beware: some nerdy shit follows.

today i conquered google. after several years of our company site not showing up on the first page of an organic google search, or in the search results at all, i found today that we are on the first page of results......in an organic search. ding. next stop, cloud 9. i have spent months researching SEO and rebuilding the website and implementing all sorts of shit that should help with searches. until today, the results were pretty much unchanged. until today. so that's good. it made me happy. then i checked the analytics on the site to find that something went wrong and the site is no longer being tracked in analytics. somehow all of my trackers were deleted from the website files. and since i don't recall opening 70ish webpages and deleting a chunk of code, you will see that i have now descended back to around cloud 2. but it's a fairly easy fix, so let's bump it back up to cloud 5. one of my friends at work is getting divorced. cloud 1. then i get called into a meeting with my entire department and the prez. my favorite employee / boss got a new job and is leaving in two weeks. cloud -4.

so what started off as a pretty decent day, and for the most part still is, is spiraling into an emotional roller coaster.

prepare for seriously gay content: this employee / boss that is leaving is most of the reason i like my job. pretty much no matter what horrible shit i could be facing at work or no matter how much i don't want to be there, there's always the thought in my head: "it could be worse, brian could not be there." and now that's true.

easily the best boss i've ever had. he's tremendous at reading his employees and tayloring his management style to them. with him here, i know where i stand in my job. i know he has my back pretty much for anything. i know i always have someone in my corner for my fight. now...who knows. it could work out nicely for me. i could get some promotion. or i could get a shit-tastic new boss that makes me hate my life and my work. only time will tell. all i know is that two weeks from now i will be starting work at this company i have worked for for two years as a new employee. the job i currently know and enjoy is over. positive thinking says the job won't change much or could even change for the better. but there's a good chance it will be the opposite. fun fucked up fact that i just looked up, his last day is july 24th, which is exactly 2 years to the day from the day he emailed me with my job offer. good times. side note, if "the tank" becomes my boss, i'll kill myself.....by going to work and letting him be my boss. because it would kill me.

Community, Identity, Stability.