Slowly but Surely

Well still no contact with the Tax Site owner, but she has been billed at least. The great news is I just landed a nice web site job for a high profile rehab center. It should be an interesting project and the best part is the clients are easy to work with.

**Sea Monkey Update**
To those who care about my sea monkeys and how they are fairing. Well it took several weeks but I now have a nice colony. About twenty of the little fellas are swimming around and growing.

All work and no Pay?

Well, I've been working on a web site for an accounting company. A nightmare job by all counts. Absolutely no input from the client, low paying job, and I can not even get in touch with the client to answer pretty important questions. Sheesh, talk about winging it.

Then, another client that was in the market for two web sites and was actually paying well decides to put the project on hold for awhile longer. Hmmmm, anyone care to pay my rent for me next month as I may be a little short?

On the plus side of things, my computer crashed not once, but twice. I think I managed to fix the problem. Looks like it was some bad spots on my hard drive that scan disk was able to correct. Thank God for that. My power supply is bad though. I actually have to put something under the power cord to put upwards pressure on it where it connects to my laptop, or it won't charge the battery. Weird huh?

Been Awhile

Wow, where do the days go? It has been quite some time since I posted some ramblings here. The holidays came and went, got to visit with the family. The new job is starting to get rolling. In fact, lots of work is on the horizon.

On the plus side, lots of work is coming, on the negative side, I feel like I have to compromise my personal design values as it is mainly small companies that are happy with a rinky dink web site rather than a visual piece of work. So the boss man wants low bids to not freak out customers who will be purchasing other services from our company. So I have to make "basic" sites for now and if they want more it will be charged as add ons. I really don't like working like that but at the same time if I'm doing 3 to 4 web sites a week from 300 to 500 each that is not to bad money wise. Especially since the funds are getting low after a half a year lay off. One thing I did learn is if you work for a company as the only design person, and they have lots of salespeople out hitting the streets web and graphic design jobs come flying in the door. Interesting.....very very interesting.