I've got tears in my eyes now. Honest, no sense in putting a ferrari engine in a 40 year old pickup truck with mis-painted fenders. When I need something new I 'un-retire' for a week and make the money. I guess that's a luxury, and I'm always unhappy working, but if it gets me somewhere.....well I do it.

Right now I'm supposed to be writing a risk management plan and manuals for someone who's paying me 2k for the work. It's gonna take at least 4 hours and I'm PRO-crastinating. I'm a PRO at that. Good thing I have the templates and most of the work is to take it to the Kinkos and have them bind the stuff with some changed pics, new company names and shrink wrap it and send it a day late saying it was complicated. They asked me to do 3 more of these and I asked for one a month cause I'm busy, which is BS but who cares. If I needed the cash I'd be do them all faster but if they think it takes 4 hours I'm going to get 2k to do the works.

Nice when the client is totally computer illiterate and so is his staff.

One of the brothers calls me yesterday. I say "You know I charge $100 to talk to me on Sunday, I've got company." He doesn't care.

10 minutes later I have to calculate 60 types of liquor, cost per drink, profit per drink, current price/profit ratio and send him a spreadsheet. $500 for an hours work. These guys are crazy. Never heard of a spreadsheet. I think I'll do it in 4 colours and ask for an extra $100 for ink cartridges. LOL.

John Conley
Musica est vita