Well, halfway there with the teeth now.
Had 3 fillings done and I have to say the teeth look good now, more like teeth than they have in a long time!
Got 3 more to sort, one needing root treatment, but if it's anything like today the most painful bit will be when they say how much I owe them - especially as it's all private work!
Not a lot else happened today...
Saturday, 21 February 2009
Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Another day, another dollar...
I hate this week... I hate this week so bad!
Explain this, the project is designed by someone else. He produces drawings which we rebadge as our own. We issue them as working drawings... well that's usually the case. Not this time. The architect/client changes the building, the designer/consultant (prick) then tells us to change our drawings... which we don't yet have because he hasn't done them. He then goes on to say that us updating his drawings will be best all round... best for him, sure, not for us! We haven't the money in the job for that and it's his fucking job!
So anyway, it looks like I will have my work cut out sorting his drawings out. I'm fucked if I will be doing them in his drawing sheets though! If he has problems sourcing someone to do his CAD work then perhaps he should come to me directly, after all, that is my primary business!!
Also had to sit in a 2.5 hour long meeting for a new job yesterday. Damn it was hard to stay awake!!
But, at least I finally found time to check out the GTA4 add-on the Lost and damned properly! After working my arse off getting the laptop back up and running, sorting out a few email template problems and checking out some modifications needed for a schematic.
Explain this, the project is designed by someone else. He produces drawings which we rebadge as our own. We issue them as working drawings... well that's usually the case. Not this time. The architect/client changes the building, the designer/consultant (prick) then tells us to change our drawings... which we don't yet have because he hasn't done them. He then goes on to say that us updating his drawings will be best all round... best for him, sure, not for us! We haven't the money in the job for that and it's his fucking job!
So anyway, it looks like I will have my work cut out sorting his drawings out. I'm fucked if I will be doing them in his drawing sheets though! If he has problems sourcing someone to do his CAD work then perhaps he should come to me directly, after all, that is my primary business!!
Also had to sit in a 2.5 hour long meeting for a new job yesterday. Damn it was hard to stay awake!!
But, at least I finally found time to check out the GTA4 add-on the Lost and damned properly! After working my arse off getting the laptop back up and running, sorting out a few email template problems and checking out some modifications needed for a schematic.
So, GTA4 the Lost and Damned... well they didn't use this opportunity to improve the graphics at all, in fact in places it seems worse with the grainy textures. Perhaps it's the new, bigger, TV I am playing it on this time around?
The story, so far, is great, and graphic... from lots of blood to something I found quite strange and nauseating they included a penis in a cut scene. Please, Rockstar, we don't wish to see that!! Give us the tits, bums etc. but no peni (is that the plural?) please!
The addition of some new music for the radio stations is a good addition. Now, to go along with The Who and Queen we have Deep Purple, Metalica, Bon Jovi and Alice Cooper to name a few. Got to love it, especially when in convoy with a bunch of other bikers, all on your choppers, cruising down the highway to Wanted, Dead or Alive! while firing off a few shots from the sawn off at the rival gangs or police.
Seems somewhat short though, unless I am missing something... only 4 hours in and already I'm the leader of The Lost... but I guess the races, the gang wars and all of the other side mission crap will fill in the rest of the time needed to play the game to justify it's cost.
Again, I've had to write yesterdays blog today... I'm behind a little but shouldn't complain, the reason for that is work and work makes me money, money makes me happy...
That Tuesday feeling
A little late in writing this one I know but yesterday was just manic from the time I woke up until the time I went to sleep!
Work was... busy... what with needing lab results pretty damn quick and not being able to contact the labs. Finally getting the all clear at 3:30 which was just in time - I must have aged 50 years in 5 hours!
Also got the 2 new laptops which had to be set up. I hate Vista! Everything I had to do wouldn't work thank's to Microsoft's stupid idea of security! But I finally sorted them out in the end.
Then stuck at a clients until 5 trying to sort out the email templates which were not working correctly. Turns out I had forgotten that the latest outlook doesn't like to make templates and I have to do them in 2003 to avoid the attachments. This lead to the huge problem of using the laptop to make them on - when it has a few problems! Not to mention the lack of internet and screwed up desktop when I got home too!
Good news is I managed to get hold of GTA4's add on, the lost and damned. It's pretty good too! Got to love the bike races, you can whack people off their bikes with a bat - brought back memories of road rash! A full review of this will come when I have more time and have played it for longer than a few minutes!
Work was... busy... what with needing lab results pretty damn quick and not being able to contact the labs. Finally getting the all clear at 3:30 which was just in time - I must have aged 50 years in 5 hours!
Also got the 2 new laptops which had to be set up. I hate Vista! Everything I had to do wouldn't work thank's to Microsoft's stupid idea of security! But I finally sorted them out in the end.
Then stuck at a clients until 5 trying to sort out the email templates which were not working correctly. Turns out I had forgotten that the latest outlook doesn't like to make templates and I have to do them in 2003 to avoid the attachments. This lead to the huge problem of using the laptop to make them on - when it has a few problems! Not to mention the lack of internet and screwed up desktop when I got home too!
Good news is I managed to get hold of GTA4's add on, the lost and damned. It's pretty good too! Got to love the bike races, you can whack people off their bikes with a bat - brought back memories of road rash! A full review of this will come when I have more time and have played it for longer than a few minutes!
Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Just another manic Monday
Just like in that classic Bangles song, it's just another manic Monday.
As always on a Monday I have trouble remembering what I did last week so take an age to fill in my timesheet for work - if anyone knows what I was doing Friday please let me know!
A fun filled day packed full of trying to contact people who don't answer their phones, chasing up whatever the hell is going on with the 2 laptops I ordered from Viking and filling in a shit load of incomplete test sheets... oh the joys!
Not only that but popping in to a client's on the way home meant that I had to try and get BBC iPlayer working again so they can have the radio! No idea what's up with it, it wont play any sound at all!! So that was 30 minutes wasted there. But the good news is another client requested I invoice them for work which I didn't plan on charging and even if I did it wouldn't be as much as they requested! So I'm quids in there.
Website, well didn't do much today on it. Added a few features to the main page, added tracking through google, got my 360 to start blogging on it's own for the games page (not yet live, watch this space) and that's pretty much it.
Gaming wise, played a little GTA4, picked up another text message car, done another most wanted, then put it down for the day - The lost and damned is out tomorrow so looks like the side bits of the original storyline will be forgotten about for a bit.
And then went on to register for the latest Poker site to advertise on the TV. Lots of amatures on there meant I doubled my original $50 steak within an hour. Only snag is I lost almost all of that in the following 2 hours when I thought my hand was a sure thing, and someone else had a better one. But it's all good fun.
Nearly hit the £3,000 mark on my "millionaire before 30" kick, well that's only my own work there, I have more stashed away too, but with only three hundred and thirty something days to go it's looking more and more like it wont happen... I will not let that stop me trying though!
As always on a Monday I have trouble remembering what I did last week so take an age to fill in my timesheet for work - if anyone knows what I was doing Friday please let me know!
A fun filled day packed full of trying to contact people who don't answer their phones, chasing up whatever the hell is going on with the 2 laptops I ordered from Viking and filling in a shit load of incomplete test sheets... oh the joys!
Not only that but popping in to a client's on the way home meant that I had to try and get BBC iPlayer working again so they can have the radio! No idea what's up with it, it wont play any sound at all!! So that was 30 minutes wasted there. But the good news is another client requested I invoice them for work which I didn't plan on charging and even if I did it wouldn't be as much as they requested! So I'm quids in there.
Website, well didn't do much today on it. Added a few features to the main page, added tracking through google, got my 360 to start blogging on it's own for the games page (not yet live, watch this space) and that's pretty much it.
Gaming wise, played a little GTA4, picked up another text message car, done another most wanted, then put it down for the day - The lost and damned is out tomorrow so looks like the side bits of the original storyline will be forgotten about for a bit.
And then went on to register for the latest Poker site to advertise on the TV. Lots of amatures on there meant I doubled my original $50 steak within an hour. Only snag is I lost almost all of that in the following 2 hours when I thought my hand was a sure thing, and someone else had a better one. But it's all good fun.
Nearly hit the £3,000 mark on my "millionaire before 30" kick, well that's only my own work there, I have more stashed away too, but with only three hundred and thirty something days to go it's looking more and more like it wont happen... I will not let that stop me trying though!
Sunday, 15 February 2009
Weekend
Not much going on this weekend really so was the perfect time to get the .info site sorted out and add those last remaining pages to it, including this blog.
Had a little work to do for Holland's this weekend too, some email templates and some drawings, not much work but was a nice £65 worth which makes the total turnover since the end of July 2008 up to £2426.50, not bad considering the current financial climate and the past 2 months being quiet (too quiet).
Spent some time on GTA4 again, trying to get that 100% again since having to change gamertag, and trying to do it before Tuesday when The lost and damned addon is released but there isn't much chance of that now!
Lets hope next week is a better week and not quite as empty as this one has been. Friday should be interesting as there is a 1.5 hour dentist appointment with my name on it, but hopefully that will mean come Friday lunchtime I will be able to smile again without having to worry what people will think of my teeth...
And that's all I got to say about that!
Had a little work to do for Holland's this weekend too, some email templates and some drawings, not much work but was a nice £65 worth which makes the total turnover since the end of July 2008 up to £2426.50, not bad considering the current financial climate and the past 2 months being quiet (too quiet).
Spent some time on GTA4 again, trying to get that 100% again since having to change gamertag, and trying to do it before Tuesday when The lost and damned addon is released but there isn't much chance of that now!
Lets hope next week is a better week and not quite as empty as this one has been. Friday should be interesting as there is a 1.5 hour dentist appointment with my name on it, but hopefully that will mean come Friday lunchtime I will be able to smile again without having to worry what people will think of my teeth...
And that's all I got to say about that!
Saturday, 14 February 2009
Blog page
Looks like the blog page seems to be working just fine now over at richpyke.info. This should mean it can be updated regularly with all of my thoughts, feelings and that rubbish.
Took a bit of doing to get the website to import properly without too much of the rubbish, formatting etc. but I got there in the end. It also needed PHP5 not PHP4 which the server was running. A simple update sorted that out though and I guess PHP5 is going to be better than PHP4 anyway so it needed doing.
The blog is also 'burned' with feedburner and set up for it's own url of feeds.richpyke.info, or at least will be when the DNS servers all catch up.
That's me done for today on the website. There's real work that needs doing now, namely email templates and drawings... oh the joys of working 24/7!
Took a bit of doing to get the website to import properly without too much of the rubbish, formatting etc. but I got there in the end. It also needed PHP5 not PHP4 which the server was running. A simple update sorted that out though and I guess PHP5 is going to be better than PHP4 anyway so it needed doing.
The blog is also 'burned' with feedburner and set up for it's own url of feeds.richpyke.info, or at least will be when the DNS servers all catch up.
That's me done for today on the website. There's real work that needs doing now, namely email templates and drawings... oh the joys of working 24/7!
First Post
Interestingly enough this is the first post (of many? No idea, we'll see).
With a bit of luck this should import nicely in to RichPyke.info's blog page - if not I need to work more on my PHP skills I guess.
That'll do for now. Need to get back to watching some classic Saved By The Bells and playing some more GTA4 before the addon comes out Tuesday.
With a bit of luck this should import nicely in to RichPyke.info's blog page - if not I need to work more on my PHP skills I guess.
That'll do for now. Need to get back to watching some classic Saved By The Bells and playing some more GTA4 before the addon comes out Tuesday.
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