“Everything I’ve built has come from the frustration that it didn’t yet exist.”
– Matt Mullenweg
Tag Archives: frustration
Fasting
mmm… real food.
i haven’t eaten real food in probably a month. i just started again, slowly, over the weekend. the past month has been a period of fasting for me, brought on by the interminable stress of the big financial question mark (eg, am i gonna get any money at all for my efforts, or will i leave california completely broke?)..
this is not something i’d recommend to anyone. waking up in the morning, drinking juice and maybe eking down a piece of dry toast but more likely nothing, and then waiting all day long in a kind of daily-business paralysis to hear some news (good or bad, either way would’ve been nice).. you of course don’t want to drive your car to exciting places to meet interesting people when, if it broke down or even just needed a petrol-refill, you likely wouldn’t be able to afford it.
but i got some money today, and more should be on its way soon (wednesday?).. mailed off my rental app at the 735 st clair, too.
let’s keep our fingers crossed, knock on wood, toss the salt over the proper shoulder, etc- and hope things will settle out soon :)
Work Troubles
HOORJ. I am frustrated. I got in trouble at work today. Not bad trouble, but my boss has warned me twice (once kinda sneakily) that I’m spending too much time on the Net at work, and today he announced that he’s disconnecting my computer from the network. I’ve got no grounds to argue with him, since that computer doesn’t have to be on the network, but it’s a crummy thing to do, especially since the last time he mentioned that he thought I was on the net too much was like three months ago. I wish he would have given me more warning that he was that close to doing something like this. I dunno, I mean I understand where he’s coming from with not wanting to pay for me to goof off, but the way I feel is that if I do my job well, get all my work done in a timely fashion (which I do) then I should be allowed a little slack. He feels differently. Yet another reason I wanna get out of this shit town and back to a place where more people share my opinions.
In addition to that, Urn and I did a really bad show last night, and the station manager told us so. He’s right, but when you did the best you could and still failed it kinda sucks to have someone critisize it. We were trying something new, and it bombed, unfortunately. Oh well… we’re gonna try twice as hard for the next show and hopefully have better results.
Agggh. On the one hand, I hate getting criticism, because it makes me feel bad, and on the other hand, I hate when people don’t tell me, like my boss. You know, I wanna know if someone has a problem with me so I can work on it, but at the same time, I hate when people have a problem with me, because then I feel like shit.
Ooog. Enough ranting.
Job Updates
Job Update: When Annie called back the deli today, they said they were calling people later in the day. Sure enough, later on, they called her back for an interview tomorrow. No mention of me. I’m going to call them tomorrow. Then when Annie called Thunderbird Motel, a confused looking person said "What? No, we’re not hiring!" and hung up on her! This would be bad enough on it’s own, but this is the SECOND time they’ve done this! About a month ago, they were advertising in the paper, and when I applied, they said they’d call back in a week. After a week, when I hadn’t heard from them, I called them back, only to find out that they were never hiring to begin with! Now it’s happened twice! Aggh! I’m going to check a couple other places in the paper tomorrow. There’s a shirt printing place in town that wants a graphics person with Macintosh experience that I think I can talk my way into.
Netscape Can Suck My Ass
Okay. Netscape can suck my ass. I just caught a look at my new design for FTF in their sucky sucky 4.7 browser and it’s all wrong!
Now, a casual observer might look at it and go “what? what’s wrong? I don’t see anything terrible!” But when you know exactly where things are supposed to be, you tend to notice things like the ENTIRE TABLE BEING 3/4 THE SIZE IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE! That and Netscape has apparently decided that the font I specified for the rest of the site doesn’t apply to the counter text, Oh, that and none of the horizontal rules I put in are showing at all! Not to mention that Netscape doesn’t show the background color of the tables in eburg or peons.
That’s THREE major bugs right there! I know the problem is with Netscape because my code is all textbook. AAAAGH! Now some of you might be saying “Scott, shouldn’t you calm down? I mean, Netscape will be coming out with a new version anytime now!.” Admittedly, Netscape 6 doesn’t seem to have any of these problems. BUT AS A WEB DESIGNER, I STILL HAVE TO DESIGN FOR 4.7′s SHORTCOMINGS! Why? Because 90% of people never bother to upgrade their browsers!
I’m going to go buy a copy of the Anarchist’s Cookbook and send Netscape a ticking package.