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Oct. 30th, 2007 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progJust finished the one-off job that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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!
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.
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.
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!
(Hayaudioboy, is the Chicken Heart studio-recording MP3 still online somewhere? My old LJ'd links to it aren't working so good.)
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!
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.
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.
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.)![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2007-10-31 04:10 am (UTC)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.