Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Back to the baby doctor

I bit the bullet. We're going back to the baby doctor.

I've been doing acupuncture and Chinese herbs and, yes mom, I've been having sex. But no baby #2. So I'm headed back to the gyn, and then on to the baby doctor. Thanks to my HMO's carefully orchestrated referral process, we should be back on the injections sometime around the middle of 2012.

We all want to do it the regular way, don't we? But you get to this point where it's like, whatev. I want the baby more.

Don't tell Dave. I think I want three. We'll see.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Rant

I admit it. I'm disgrunted.

WHAT?

On Friday at noon, a client sent me an email asking me to review an idea he had for a weekly email special. This is a client who routinely asks me to review his half-assed ideas, which he then (sometimes) half-follows-through-on (if at all).

So nevermind that it's going to be a half-assed effort. And nevermind that my sql server got hacked last week. And never mind that that stupid SSL cert still won't install - I'll review your stupid idea (again) and get back to you.

Sunday, 8:48 a.m.
From: Stupid client
Re: weekly specials

Have you had a chance to look at?


WHAT? On Sunday morning? You asked me this question on Friday afternoon. I guess I'm not supposed to have a weekend.

ALSO

A client of a client is refusing to pay my invoice because she thinks it's outrageous that I make $125/hour. Outrageous? That a business should earn $125/hour? That the owner should take home (maybe) a third of that? Or that your sorry little PhD ass barely earns twice that? Are you feeling a little insecure about your graduate school training, sweetie?

NOT TO MENTION

Me: My back hurts. I really need to start exercising.
Dave: There's nothing to do. Just go for a walk.
Me: When am I supposed to do that?
Dave: Just go do it. Whenever.
Me: You just don't understand how hard I work.
Dave: Mmph.

AND FINALLY

~evening~

MJ: My gf is sick, so I'll be online and working on your stuff pretty much all the time for the next few days.
Me: Cool. Talk to you in the morning then.

~morning~

[crickets]

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Crazy week

This has been some kind of crazy week.

First of all, Monday was a daycare holiday. Daycare holidays are the worst. All my clients are working (criminy! it's only Columbus Day!), but since daycare is closed, I cannot work. At. All.

So I got up on Tuesday already a whole day behind. Had acupuncture in the morning, then bolted at 2:15 to head to Philly with Andrew for mega-death-metal-dead-babies-on-pitchforks-arrr-satan-arrr.

We saw five death metal bands, culimating with...wait for it...Danzig!!! All told, it was a VERY late night. The show ended at 1:30 a.m., and Andrew let me sleep the whole way back to his house. I love him.

Wednesday morning, I woke up to this IM:

"Ann, our site is screwed up. It's throwing all kinds of errors, and opening other websites, and it's not displaying right."

Awesome.

I'll cut to the chase: SQL Server. Hacked. Firewall. Not configured correctly. Passwords. All need changing. Seriously not my bad. Oh well.

Two days later, I'm finally coming up for air. I haven't done a stitch of work all week, and tomorrow's Friday.

Ack.