Saturday, January 21, 2006

i hate people

I was supposed to interview a drummer today. Well, I get to his house, and I hear people inside, and I hear a dog barking inside, but no matter how much I ring the doorbell or knock on the door, no one answers. Then, I leave and go to lunch ('cause this was about an hour earlier than we were supposed to be there) and then I come back just at 1 (the meeting time) and another car is there that wasn't there before, so I figure that he is home now. Well, I knock and I ring, and I hear people talking inside, but no one answers the door. I go around back and look and there's nothing there. I knock and ring some more, hear more noises, but no one answers. Finally I wait in the car for 10 more minutes, no one shows, no one opens the door or anything, so we leave.

You know a drummer is flaky when he can't even be bothered to be at HIS OWN HOUSE on time.

Grr

The band got a gig for the 28th. We're going to work with a fill-in drummer for this one. We're interviewing a drummer replacement Saturday afternoon. We'll see. Record sounds good. It's not mixed or mastered yet.

I have client troubles. The client I quit begged me to work for him again, so I agreed... on one condition: that he never talk to me again. LOL. Yup. That's the deal. And he took it. Another client is the client that I took on for credit in one of my classes last semester. I did the site for free, and put up EVERYTHING they gave me. They told me this week that the site was "never completed" and that they had "higher expectations for it." And that they're not going to pay me for this round of edits. Kenny has other ideas and is planning on forcing the issue at a meeting tomorrow (he is pretending to be my boss). I am going to try to dissuade him from that before we get there.

I am working on the CD inserts and traycards. I am working on three sites (the two mentioned above and one other). I am working on school work. I am working on Book Two. I am working on putting together a press kit. I am working on a new magazine. I am working to replace the drummer. I am working to get the record finished. I am working on the lawyer's stuff to get money for the CD replication and silk screening.