2010-04-21:
But still something to complain about!
So yesterday I get this call from a guy, right? Old dude. Still has 98 machines running, because he likes pain I guess. He has seen my work. He has gotten my name from someone who thinks highly of me. I am cheap. His message says, "I don't get in until 10:00." I think, that's an odd thing to say, right? I call the number he's given me, oh look, it's his work number. Even though he's now heard my message about returning calls between 7 and 9, he does not leave his home number. So I call him in the morning, it's about 10:05 or something, no later then 10:15. "oh" says the girl I speak to. "He just left with it." apparently to take it someplace.
What?
Excuse me, but please do not call me and then not even give me a chance to get back to you. THE NEXT DAY. Because you know what that makes you? An idiot. I needed that work, too.
Oh, right, 98. Should I be surprised at the behavior of a man clinging desperately to hardware 12 years old? Because getting a new machine might involve change, ooooooh scary!
For that matter, should I be surprised at any behavior carried out by my fellow man? *shakes head* What a silly billy you are, Robert.
So I did not go over there in the morning as I had planned, I put my big box 'o stuff up on ebay instead.
Stuff, that, even if it sells, will probably go for a loss, but what can you do? (no bids on anything yet)
Then I did a little more work on the character creator, which is coming along still. This was the sprite powers path, and I got the darkbolt powers path set up too. Getting there!
Angels sang out as the phone rang, I actually got to do work! Just some minor stuff, but at least it was work. Along with my two from before, I made one other appointment for tomorrow and one for saturday. The processor for one machine arrived, but didn't help as I had feared. The HD for another arrived but he's not back until Friday. Also talked to a person running OS X 10.4 and some old apple backup software and extolled the virtues of Time Machine, so after I get some RAM in for her, I'm going to upgrade her machine.
So the future isn't all bleak. Oh yeah, got "How the Grinch (didn't) steal christmas" done too. The Jim Carrey version. One more movie to do, another christmas one, and Drew's VHS tapes are done. Then I can finish off his short.
And now the christmas spirit is alive in me once again!
Peace on Earth, good will to men!
Or more realistically: