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.

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!