….. buy a bottle of vodka, and take a shotgun with me. This has been a very stressful last couple weeks as I have wayyy tooo many projects going on at once. Whets worse is this Valentine project will never end. I have a feeling that it’s going to haunt me for the rest of my life. I’d love to finish this job and walk away from it, but I feel like I’ve been buried up too my neck in sand and honey poured over my face next to an ant pit. Where I’m at with this super cool project is that I’ve almost a hundred percent complete with the site. All I have to do now is upload it to their linux server (yes were staying with the old server not with the new windows one we had toast.net create for us), create a htaccess file that tells people typing in valentinetheatre.com to go to the old site, fix any bugs in different browsers, then make it live. It seems like this truly has been the project from hell, with every step in the project taking at least 15 hours longer than expected. I pray to god that either by tonight or tomorrow night, the site will be online and I can take a break until summer comes and they need additional updates.
One reason that this project sucks so much is because I have been kind of hard on myself. I’ve made a few unwise decisions, but really I feel like crap when I need to extend a deadline because I physically have no time to work on the project. I think my client realizes this and I do feel bad but really, their getting a project that can range from 1500 to 4000 dollars for free (I’ve done additional research on pricing and I think I might have been off on my initial proposal). Even though I can say this, I still feel like I’m letting the world down when I tell them to bear with me another day. I guess that’s something that I’ll have to overcome and I now realize the importance of researching projects before hand to be able to accurately estimate a project, whether it being money, TIME, or whatever. Hopefully I’ll survive long enough to see this thing go up. See you soon.