And I don’t mean like CA where Andy and Ellen are trying to avoid the damn fires! They are fine, btw, they live in an area that was missed by the Witch fire.
In other news, I’m up to my asshole in work. Feast or famine, I tell you! Oracle is a mess this time with corrections and botched ads all over the place. It’s gonna take me longer to put it up than usual. On top of all that, the restaurant is changing hands MONDAY so I’ve got to write letters and calculate partial payments and all that by Monday. Great. Guess my Friday to get ready for the party will be Nick’s Friday to get ready for the party. I’ll have to work! And of course all this nicely coincides with that bitch Aunt Flo. ARGH!
I also have to prepare for a meeting with the new owners, the Greeks by Friday. I’ve got to have at least a vague outline of what I can do for them and what I can’t. They still have their hearts set on me doing the billing for them, but there are going to be some rules, mothafuckahs, and if they can’t comply with MY way of doing things, it won’t work, period. I told them that today.
If this pans out the way I’d like, I’ll be the web and graphics wench and that’s all. But I don’t think that’s gonna happen until next year. I’ve got the feeling I’ll be needed for the payroll and all that for Decatur until then. Well, that’s fine, but they’ll PAY me, dammit. No more of the $12/hr shit. Nope, it’ll be $20 or thereabouts. In any case, I’ve got to put together proposals for redoing the website and continuing with the graphics as well as a proposal/plan for establishing a corporate office for them. I don’t want to RUN the office, mind you, but I’ll damn sure charge them a nice sum to do the footwork to set it up and line up vendors and hire a competent office manager as a project. I think if it’s handled as a project with an end date and set fees it’ll work better for me all round. There is another project as well, their operations manuals that they will need down the road. Since I can do the layout and get them printed, I’m the logical choice for that HUGE task. David can do the writing and I can do the layout. Lots of money to be made if I play my cards right.
I’m not taking on any new clients until all this shit planes out. Oracle has all these ideas that they want to do and they are the only active web client I have, so I’ll keep them going and the rest of my time will be taken up by closing out Rob’s stuff and setting up the Greeks. There is a LOT of paperwork to be done. And a LOT of phone work, too.
I can’t think too much about it right now, my head will explode if I do! It’s the kind of thing that you must take one step at a time or you’ll go crazy! And yes, I’m aware that crazy is a very short drive for me!! :-)
