Maybe not a hug but a thumbs up would be nice.

Adulting has been a bit difficult this evening. First, an old conflict between myself and a friend came to light again. They were upset at something I did years ago that I feel justified having done given the situation at the time. Still, we exchanged civil messages about it sharing how we each felt around the old conflict and came to some common ground. Will likely talk to them in person over the next few days to check in. While this wasn't really difficult, I respect the emotions that were involved and was as careful as I could be so that things wouldn't get worse.

Second, I had to prepare a handover document for a soon-to-be former client. In a nutshell, they gave me a project and I started work on it including incurring expenses but they turned around and gave it to someone else. So of course it's been difficult for me to maintain my professionalism in all this. I asked for a fair payment to be made in light of the work that I did but they haven't responded to that request yet. I'm not so heart-broken over losing this client because (and I never thought this would be possible) they were the most disappointing clients I've had so far. It probably has something to do with the fact that my contact person in the organization has changed 3 times, they probably didn't want to stay in that environment.