Tonight Fish Fry somewhere, it is an option at every bar around here. The next couple days I'd like to try and teach the boys to water ski. Some stuff on the never ending home repair list. Maybe someone will be going to the city and I can get to a book store.

Pulling up the cement board from the kitchen floor in the new house
Doing laundry
vacuuming
Oh, and going to the Hollywood Bowl to see this: [link]

That's awesome Robin!

Weekend includes:

laundry (too much)
cleaning (probably not enough)
sleeping (definitely not enough)
maybe going to the pool with the kids (badly needed)

Great photos, Gud!

God damn it. This freelancer is fucking with my shit again. Told him at 9 that I had changes for him, could I please get a new copy to mark them on since the copy I had was so marked up it would be confusing. At 9:45, sent him an email request the damn copy. At 10, I got it, at 10:15 I left it on his desk.

An hour later I emailed him a chunk of text with the note "this is for the piece on page two." He came and asked me a question about it, got it all clear, whatever. We had some back and forth getting it to work, so far so good.

Now five minutes ago he brings me a new copy of the document. With only that change made. I start marking it up, get a few pages through and just bring it back to him. And ask him where the other changes are from the fucking full color, 11 X 17 document that's sitting on his desk an inch from his arm. Which he didn't see.

I'ma fucking kill this guy if I'm here late tonight. I've had such a week, and have a totally fucked one next week with a full workload despite three days out of the office in a training session. I was going to leave as soon as this piece was done. Which I guess I still am.

[Also - dude, you're a freelancer - graphics is strictly temp-to-hire here. You want this to ever turn into perm, you need to step it up. You need to ask questions, not just assume I meant to send you a blank email. You need to show a little urgency when you know a complicated project is under the gun. You need to stop being one more motherfucker fucking up my shit.]

You're still not done with the book?

Really gotta be close to #1 on the list of things not to say to your writer friends.

Or possibly just me.

weekend plans: tonight, driving up to New Hampshire. Tomorrow and Sunday, lounge around drinking beer, taking boat rides, swimming, dozing, and eating on an island in Lake Winnipisake.

looks at clock

goDAMMit! Want to start weekend now plz.

This weekend: Seeing Stardust with a friend
Cleaning
Doing laundry
Going in search of good fudge, or, learning how to make fudge
Learning to use my new lightbox setup
And, relatedly, listing the stuff behind the couch for sale on eBay.
Possibly uploading photos to flickr.

Notice how only one of these involves another human being?

eta What is up with me and the goddam formatting?

weekend plans: tonight, driving up to New Hampshire. Tomorrow and Sunday, lounge around drinking beer, taking boat rides, swimming, dozing, and eating on an island in Lake Winnipisake.

Say "Hi" to President Sarkozy for me.

IOW have nice trip and hope the media circus isn't too bad there.

Getting things done here, and then heading home to finish cleaning the apartment before getting at least a few hours sleep before Mom arrives at noonish to spend the week.

I hope she doesn't expect to have an adventurous weekend, because I'm going to be damn tired after today.