Aggro Sublime

I need to vent for a second… I wonder how much one should take from a client. I’m doing them an immense favour and if I was to charge them all the extra hours they would be waaaaaaaaay over budget by now. This project should take two months at the most and they don’t seem to be aware that the project is already taking five months just because they don’t deliver and they refuse any cooperation. Everything I need from them seems to cause aggravation like I’m not allowed to ask for content that they should’ve delivered in the first place.

It’s a simple matter of having content ready or getting it ready so I can finish their website. I shouldn’t have to ask for things and if I still have to then not more than once or twice, certainly not each week for five months in a row… I’ve learned: they moved way down my priority list and I don’t care anymore if their autumn/winter collection is going to be finished and online in spring, I stopped caring. They’ve been a pain from the start, they don’t show any appreciation for what I’m doing and I’m on the verge of telling them to shove it somewhere dark.

Wow… I feel so much better now: on to more interesting and fruitful challenges. I don’t need the aggro today: if they can make me wait I can make them wait too *hehe*.

Hardware Upgrade

I’ve been postponing it for ages but while I was working on the template design of my new business blog the application started to fail on me. It kept crashing with one 3Gig file: I realised I had to install the whole package again. So while I was at it I thought I might as well put in the new gear: a 500Gb HD and 2x2Gb of RAM. What I thought would take me an hour in the end almost took me two days. It wasn’t the hardware causing me problems, that all went quite smooth, it was the software and I decided to do a clean system install.

Of course after the installation I found out that files were missing, mostly printer descriptions and prefs and although I did make some backups it was no point trying to sort out what was missing and where it was supposed to be on the system. I deleted all the Creative Suite applications and installed them again and although I still have to sort out stuff on my HDs and take care of archiving, my machine runs fine without any problems. I now have an extra HD to backup all the client files in case one of my LaCie Porsches fails.

It’s been a busy two days but I’m quite content with the results and I know I will be grateful for doing this if I was to experience a serious crash in the future… I’m so happy with my beast… *sigh*

:)

See the dirt? *EEEEW*

More dirt *YUK*

New HD with special ‘drive guides’ that were stored next to the HD bays [RAM modules top left]

New HD in its bay, haven’t connected power cable yet, just the data cable

New RAM modules installed, 8 slots all full *hehe*