Just made my train, again. Another derailment, another day. It's getting ridiculous - it's been about one derailment a week.

Had a freakishly busy day. Spent the whole morning finishing off the Great Clips template - Nathaniel decided he wanted this coupon thing that when you clicked the link it took you to a form. From there the use could decide to use the form to have the coupon emailed to them, or print the coupon right from there - which meant creating a special stylesheet that allowed them to print out ONLY the coupon.

After then I went through tickets - one of which I shouldn't have done at all, but I did for the sake of time and aggravation. See, here's the problem - we have hired a company in India to do setup for some of our clients. It's cheap - like 10-15k for the whole year for like a team of 10-12 people. Anyway, that's about the only good thing because they suck really bad. Everything they do is bad. Really bad. They use HTML 4 in XHTML strict templates, can't design for shit (if a client should request a redesign of one of our original templates) and aren't good commicators. Anyway, one of the India team members edited a client's site and broke the HTML by removing a part of the code that collapsed the whole template. So I had to go back in page by page and fix the mistakes. Realy fun. Not only that, this particular client specializes in hair restoration (ie: transplants). For the stock photos in the flash gallery used on the pages they added in photos of a female nurse, a handy man, a teenage girl, a middle aged woman and a man dressed up in a business suit.... um, ok...

After that I busted my ass finally having time to finish up the pet care template. Still not quite finished but will be done early tomorrow morning. No way in hell I'm working on that tonight.

Also, have I mentioned my distate for sales people? Yes, my fiance/boyfriend/Paul (lol) is in sales, but still! They are all pushy, ignorant to what they are selling (in the case of my company) and want it done NOW. They don't understand shit takes time. Especially MY time. I'm the ONLY PERSON coding new templates. To explain that - we have a goal of creating 3-4 brand new templates a week. Each template takes me about 1.5 days to slice, and code then add in the dynamic code for our CMS. As you can see that's most of my time there.... than add in the fact that I am the ONLY ONE who does all tickets. My tickets range from "segmentizing" a pre-existing template (that means copying a template we already have, say a doctor - and changing it to be used for our lawyer clients - that means changing all stock photos, demo text and adding/removing and dynamic code that doesn't work for that segment), fixing errors for templates that already exist, helping the setup team if they have any publishing issues/questions AND delegating any other issues to the other members on my team (ie: sending copy requests to the copywriters, sending graphic design requests to the designer, etc). THAN I have marketing projects. Which can range from a simple landing page with a form to a full blow website. Let's not forget any side projects I may get assigned to for our platform, or other things we do behind the scenes... I'm doing the job of like 3/4 people.

And not to be bitchy, but there is no way in hell I'm going to rush through and do a terrible job and than get chastised for it later on. I'd rather be late then hand in something half-assed.

Well, enough about work.

Can't wait to get home and relax. My hip/sciatic thing is killing me.

I spent the whole day listening to a new station I created on Pandora a little rock/alt station which I populated with all my favorite artists, than pandora blends in other artists I may like based on those choices. Usually I only listen to R&B/hip-hop, but I feel like switching up for a while. So much of it is the same. I'm getting bored of it.

The Rhinebeck (Dutchess County) fair starts tomorrow. Can't wait. I really hope to go sometime during this week or weekend. Prolly can't though because of Paul's shitty work schedule this week. Eh, oh well. Prolly should save the money anyway.

Hope Reina puppy is ok. Anothe long day in the cage. :( Poor puppy. I swear, I can't wait until we move and Isaiah will have his own room. Maybe he'll finally sleep the night through... Maybe! Let's see just 10 more days! HOLY SHIT!

JUST TEN MORE DAYS!

Paul is supposed to bring home boxes tonight and during the week. I hate packing, I hate moving and I hate unpacking. It'll be worth it though. I still have to give my current landlord official notice. Ooops.

Note to self - call cable to schedule an appointment to get cable setup in new house.

Oh well, I'm going to go finish the article I started writing this morning for my blog.