Werk

Today was wacky. A kerfuffle resulted from volity.com's highly intolerant mailserver refusing an important mail from a client several days ago, due to the fact that the mail was sent from a hotel with a reputation for spam. The client didn't see the bounce message that the server instantly shot back at them, so they didn't know that I never read the mail. Come Monday morning, frolics abounded. By Monday evening, everything's settled, insert folk juju-dispersal here.

Then had a good Volity meeting. There's only a few steps left before the alpha, which is now slightly late if you want to be a bastard and hold me literally to the dates I called months ago, but it's gonna be close-enough-dammit. Cross your fingers.

During the bits of downtime today, I worked on updating my professional presence. Following a conversation I had with taskboy3000 last week, I'm switching my self-assigned title to "Software Consultant", and have been busily retouching all my resumes and linkedins and such appropriately. I also redid my contracting consulting page, expanding the portfolio section and dropping a lot of the technobabble and buzzwords, reckoning that the resume's a better place for that stuff.

Need to redesign jmac.org. I am tired of the "Big Gray 7" layout that's, what, four years old now? On pages like this, that top bar is just oppressive.

Ratatat

Fired off three job things today. Two of them sound like good fits, one especially so. It involves another Big Name Perl Dood, and I totally name-checked Boston.pm people in my email to him. I'm hopeful I'll hear something back.

Client is doing the dance of joy about the work I put in yesterday. Great, super. But now my plate is empty again. I need more clients.

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When it was time to do some Volity work tonight, I instead chose to let off a lot of steam in Resident Evil 4, which I haven't played in a couple of weeks. Advanced two chapters in about three hours of play.

Happily ignoring the advice in the two non-spoiler strategy GameFAQs docs I read about weapons choices. Everyone hates the machine gun! I think they're full of it. The machine gun is hella fun. You can even kill some bosses with it, once you get good. Poopy on you, silly min-maxer GameFAQ kiddies.

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Speaking of killing bosses with machine guns, Someone close to me is getting shafted hard by their job, he said vaguely but meaningfully. Multiple parties are upset at this. I look forward to seeing how it falls out. (And participating in this, to the degree that I can.)

Dear Hivemind: THE BANK THAT YELLS

ING DIRECT ("WE PUT THE CAPS-LOCK IN CAPITAL") just bought my bank.

Any experience with them? Should I accept this, or run away?

Update: The verdict is overwhelmingly keep. Thanks!