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I don’t think I’m going to get a lot of work done today. My head is NOT in the work zone. I’ll probably hit my LC site this afternoon or evening, and no doubt will be working on it this weekend. I’ve got some stuff to do with the theme and display to get that squared away. But mostly, I’m not in the headspace for it at the present.

So shortly, I’m going to run some errands and try to enjoy myself. And always, feel happy. I am very lucky to have the life I do, filled with comfort and safety and people who care about me. I have many freedoms and choices that not everyone has, and I do appreciate the fact.

Crazy cat lady is happy today.

Well, I addressed my client issue. Wasn’t too hard.

First, I took the evening off to spend time with my family for my husband’s birthday. This was step one, and the most important. Take my time off and wait until I’m not pissed. Clear my head, you know.

I looked at the corrections sent to me today, and made them. Then I emailed the client, and let them know that I took care of the corrections sent. I also reminded them that with a large number of updates having to be worked into my schedule in a short period of time, edits are to be expected.  Some of ‘em where their fault, some were mine, but the whole thing was rushed on both sides, so this sort of thing definitely happens. And finally, I let them know that while I wasn’t available yesterday afternoon, I am today, so can be reached if needed.

I think there was probably a little ego-posturing in the group, and the person who called me probably got bitched at by somebody else regarding whose name’s listed where kinda thing. So that left her sort of panicky for the phone call to me. Based on my experience with ‘em, that’s what I’d guess.

But regardless, I am pleased with how I dealt with it. Nobody left pissed or alienated, and the work is done. Yay.

This one goes out to all of you who romantisize the notion of working for yourself. You see, sometimes my clients drive me nuts. I’ll grant you, there are days where it’s a shorter trip than others, ok. I’ll own it. But man. (more…)

Damn. The last couple of days have been rough for me, work-wise. I’m behind on layout mockups for a client–and these are stressful for me to do. Aesthetics are so subjective, and i have to come up with designs for their website. I make image files to demonstrate the designs, and they look them over. And then, when they pick one and we hammer out the details, I have to actually make the damn things. I’m so not in the mood.

But anyway, I’m behind. And I’m busy. And I missed renewing a client’s domain name. So, because I missed this, their website has been replaced with a big ol’ honkin’ ad. Eek! I can usually fix this kind of thing within a couple of hours, but I wasn’t so lucky this time. I worked on it all day yesterday off and on and got nowhere.

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had a busy weekend. worked a lot, on my low carb site.

 i’m making progress, fighting through it a little at a time. there’s a big learning curve for the software i choose. i knew that going in, but decided it’s worth it. the software is very powerful and scaleable and flexible and has lots of addon and plugins and such so, in the long run, i’ll make it sing, man.

i’m on a tight schedule, as i’d like to have it finished in the next couple of weeks. while that sounds like plenty of time, it’s not so much as you’d think. i can’t get hung up on stuff, man. gotta keep moving.

still, i’m feeling very good about it. i’m learning. i’m making progress. gradually, it’s coming together. so it’s all good.

The phone rings and I scan the caller ID. It’s my bank. That’s never good, if your bank is calling you, is it? With some trepidation, I search my brain for ideas about why they may be calling, but nothing comes to mind. So I sigh just a little, inside, and answer it.

The lady introduces herself, and then continues, “We’ll be having some representatives in the Eudora area tomorrow to visit with our business customers, and was wondering when they might stop by to visit with you?”

What? They will have representatives in the area? How many businesses are there in this town that use them anyway? And what is this? A poll? And besides, we’re 7 miles away from them. They have to make a special day to come out here? What the fuck is this woman talking about, anyway?

“Uh, I’m not going to be in tomorrow, actually.” It was true and everything. Granted, it was a lunch date and I could have worked around it. I didn’t want to.

“Well, when would be a better time for you?” (more…)

Feeling better today–going about my routines with no major issues. Got my to-do list pared down to just a few items. I have an errand to run this evening that will take awhile, so it’s nice to have the slate mostly cleared in the interium.

I fixed a few problems and finished some updates. So that’s good, ‘eh? Anyway, I feel like I’ve been a bit off my game lately, and I’m happy to have gotten some more stuff done.

feeling kind of wrung out today. like i have too many things to figure out and not enough…of whatever i need, i guess, to figure it out.

of course that doesn’t make sense. but there it is.

so i’m trying to relax my brain a little bit, and then chew off one thing at a time. i got my incense order from ebay today, and my latest bath and bodyworks sale shipment…so this place smells something akin to a hippie head shop in here. i’ve got incense, candles and aromatherapy oils all burning, mand.

i’m listening to my reiki healing music on the mp3 player. did a little bit at a time. taking a break. doing a little more. like that.

But I got an integrated forum/content management system set up. For the geeks in the room, it’s vbulletin/drupal hybrid. It was a BITCH getting everything to work right, but I finally got a working version set up with a backup of the LCE forums, and man, am I happy about it!

In short, the next big hurdle to me opening the new LCE is overcome. I have to get it all set up, configured and gussied up for the massies, but the main goal has been hit–the fucker works.

i feel scattered today.

i’m getting client emails with weird problems. (they can’t log into the site. ok. i look. they’re right. with no apparant reason in sight. the site is returning page not found errors for pages that are there.)

i have weird problems to figure out for LCE - the biggest concnern is that one of my moderators on the forums can barely access the site it’s so slow since the upgrade.

i still have to finish figuring out my upgrade for LCE. it’s complicated and entails lots of database stuff.  i have no idea where i’m going with it, other than i have to figure it out, like, yesterday, man.

getting various requests for tech help on the forums at LCE. some are easy to fix, some are not. but it’s stuff to figure out.

i guess i have lots of stuff going on that i need to figure out. bah. it’s not terrible–i’m prety good at figuring stuff out. but it’s a lot at once.