Life, bitch that she is, hands you some bittersweet / paradoxical stuff sometimes.

[Redstone]

I'm going to ramble here, then go to bed.

A week ago Friday, I got an e-mail from a client I thought I'd lost due to a "corporate realignment." They wanted to know, could I pull an obscure division of theirs out of the 1970s with a clean, 21st-century suite of marketing materials...and, by the way, do that several months' worth of work in just over a week, so they could have those materials ready for a trade show in Germany next week?

Oh, yes. I was born for deadlines, even though it meant pulling EVERY single Photoshop trick out of my hat for the product photography - which, may I add, was the most fiendishly difficult to silhouette and dynamic-range-balance that I've EVER dealt with. I was stoked. You can ask Mrs R. Nothing like telling a customer "Yeah, that can't be done, but don't worry, I'll take care of it" to get me cranked up.

And then I found out that a friend of mine from 3,000 miles away was going to be in New York City, only eighty miles away, but only for a week. The same week this project, so vital to the survival of my company, came in.

No problem, I thought. I'd whip and dip and get the client to approve layouts with FPO product pictures, then jump back, Jack, and do the grit work on the product photography on Good Friday when everybody else wasn't working, with Saturday morning in my pocket if I needed it, and be golden to run down to NYC over the weekend to have a drink or seven with my pal, with enough time that we'd be able to win the war again.

Then came the windstorm Friday. And our five hours with no electricity. And the windstorm Saturday with another three hours of no electricity.

Stone me, I wasn't able to go to NYC to visit with my friend. But I managed to bring the Company-Saving Project in, by stealing some time this Easter Sunday to work on finishing it up. Yes, indeed. I may be old, but I ain't dead yet.

End of ramble, pointless though it ended up being. Thank you all for listening.

Redstone

[hippywife]

1. Sorry you missed time with your friend.

Things like that are so important. But congrats on pulling out all the stops on that project. Had to be a bitch of a nail biter with the loss of power! :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Redstone!

Your rambles are never pointless!

A most fascinating description of your week...

Maybe think about getting a generator?

We have one, and though we've rarely used it, it has saved us several times!

I hope your friend will be back through sometime soon...

And you are far from dead!

:hug:

[LynzM]

3. Redstone, you are a man after my own heart.

I, too, thrive on that kind of impossible deadline in a somewhat masochistic kind of way. Oh, the usual project timeline is 12 weeks? And you want it in 5? And it's the first time anyone in my company has programmed in this interface? Sure! :evilgrin:

I'm sorry for you that you didn't get to visit with your friend, though. That part really sucks. :(

Sleep well, my friend.

[lost-in-nj]

4. Ramble on

I do not do anything unless there is a deadline.......


I am sorry you missed seeing your friend......
hope you have another opportunity.....



:hug:



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