I hold in my hand an envelope...

it contains two CDRs which in turn contain the data comprising the templated artwork for my next CD. The whole thing is very anticlimactic, it's not like the artwork is all that great but it's kind of cool, too... so now I have to decide what I'm going to do and set up my order.

My target release date was largely self-defined, and not tied to anything but a guess at when I could be done. There is a little frustration in missing that target, but also someone did me a great favor in working on this and that's very nice. So the cost of missing the date was offset by the near-zero cost of getting the artwork set up.