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another … entry

… jason beat me to fluke, the new chris moore book. bastard. see if i introduce him to any new authors.

… so friggin buried in work it sucks

… learning how to get xml into flash. cool yet sucky at the same time.

… need to do exercise today, running out of time. still got dinner plans, catching a concert for a new band we’re working with and stopping by finn’s on the plate today with

… birthday party - shopping for gift and outfit, then going to party tomorrow

… working on music all day sunday to prepare for next weekend’s live event

… a meeting to pitch a new project on monday which needs some prep time still

… parents coming up on tuesday

.. flying out on thursday but have to wrap up and complete or nearly complete not one, not two, not three, but four projects before then

… but i still have time to bitchblog.

Well.. it’s almost the end of the week and I have spent no time on music. Work has been pouring in and I’ve just been struggling to keep my head above water…

i’m also trying to master xml… well, xml in and of itself is a piece of cake, but i’m having a hell of a time trying to figure out exactly how you get xml into flash. i’ve spent some serious time on it tonight and have nothing to show for it except for a splitting headache. a seriously splitting headache. time to down a few aspirins with a nice merlot.

if anyone has any great xml/flash tutorials, please feel free to send them my way. i’ve gotta pick this up, and fast.

so… tomorrow, gotta find a bday present for a friend, and get an outfit for the party… somewhere in there, learn xml/flash integration and knock out a few pages for a site that needs to launch early next week, and qc and burn an ecd that’s due tomorrow if possible. that’s inbetween yoga, an hour on the bike and a stop at the gym. all of which needs to be done before 8 or so, because we need to go see one of the bands we’re working for play, and then go to finns to try to get a little social time in on the schedule.

i could use a few more hours in the day at this point. i’d stay up and work tonight but the headache is truly debilitation, plus i really think i need to walk away… just banging my head up against the wall at this point.

Not 30 minutes after my hubristic blog entry, we got a call from a client terminating our relationship with them.

No worries, though. We had been debating the best time to dump them for awhile now. Sayonara! And even better - we had a two month notice built into the contract so we get to pull in the retainer for two more months while they concentrate on finding another company and building a new site. Woot!

work is falling out of the sky right now. i’m literally being buried in it. none of it is huge budget stuff, so it kind of sucks, but you gotta take it when you get it.

You know, I try to avoid these stupid polls. I didn’t do the “which matrix character are you” because the graphics and questions were so damn lame. But anything that tells me I’m a heretic, I’m down with.

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