Scary stuff

[prog]

Just finished the one-off job that jtroutman passed over to me. If it doesn't cause the client to catch on fire, I think they'll like it, and I am hoping that it will lead to more work from them. In my delivery letter I noted some recommendations for improvements in their process, and added that I'd be most happy to discuss them further if they'd like. This is good habit for a consultant to get into!

Alongside that invoice, I get to send out my first ever past-due notice to another client. whee

It's starting to look like there really might be a three-way battle over the remaining chunk of my rentable work-time. All is made more interesting by the fact that the bigger contract I've signed peters out after December, giving me room to offer help starting thereafter, should prospective clients miss the boat right now.

Both of my little whiteboards are filled with the current state of all the job-threads I have going on at once. I have seven marked down right now, each with a one-line status summary. Red marker means I am waiting for them to do something, green marker means that the ball's in my court. It's colorful and fun!

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I agreed to the agency-mediated article, since I feel like I already halfway agreed to it, and the pay is good. Maybe not maximal, but way more than I've gotten before for online tech articles. The deadline's about three weeks away, and it's only 2000 words. I can do it. If I find that I really like it (and it doesn't take up all the rest of my time), maybe then I'll start talking to publishers directly, seeking to write more.

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I managed to land jasonmcintosh.com! It will be some time before I put something there. Maybe make it a 2008 goal. Still need to get some nice pictures of myself.

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I am going to go see Tomes of Terror II tomorrow night. This is the audio group that I worked with a couple years ago (Chicken Heart!) and who have somehow managed to get better and better despite the lack of my direct involvement ha ha. Its sophomore effort last year really surprised me with how polished the act had gotten, and this year's show is apparently so good that (according to insiders on my flist) an audience member literally fainted from fright at their opening show on Monday. Can't wait to hear it myself!

(Hay audioboy, is the Chicken Heart studio-recording MP3 still online somewhere? My old LJ'd links to it aren't working so good.)

Comments

[keimel.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the work stuff. And the domain too.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

I left the show after the second of three stories. Perhaps I missed the really good one. It was fun, but not seriously impressive, and I had a kind of crappy seat so I couldn't see the effects masters at work.

[audioboy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, there's a recording of the live show out there somewhere. I'll try to track it down and e-mail it to you.

CDs of the studio recording are on sale at the concessions area, though! :)

[prog.livejournal.com]

I was not aware of that. SOLD

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Tonight was a blast--the house was packed and the crowd laughed at all the jokes in "Our Miss Brooks", including a lot of subtle moments (well, subtle by this show's standards) that never got laughs in rehearsals. The actors from "Carmilla" and "The Stone Ship" seemed to have had a good time too, and said the audience seemed to be really getting it.

Monday was all right; I was immensely relieved that we pulled it off with no disasters and that some people seemed to think we were amusing, but the audience was smaller and a little quieter, and the energy in the house wasn't quite what it was today, fainting incident aside. It'll be interesting to see what we get on Halloween. You'll certainly be seeing all the performances cranked up to 11 after a couple of runs with an actual audience.

That was what was missing in "Chicken Heart"--we did one show, and while we did pretty well then, we didn't do a live encore until Arisia when we were all pretty cold and had inadequate preparation. I wonder sometimes what "Chicken Heart" would have been like on the third night if we had kept going.

[toonhead-npl.livejournal.com]

a squatter had that domain all this time? don't tell me they tried selling it to you at some point?

[prog.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure. It didn't look like a squatter, since before now the domain wasn't pointing at anything valid, it was just being held by someone via GoDaddy. I gave them $18 to re-register the domain in my name as soon as it expired, and then got a series of email that started with "We didn't get it in time, sorry :(" and ended with "We have successfully snagged this domain for you! :)" Wev.

I have confirmed via GoDaddy tools that it is indeed mine and have set up DNS and everything. All in all I am out eight dollars more than what i would have spent if it was in the clear the whole time, so no real complaints from me.