This week has been up and down with stupid techinical difficulties that were putting me at the edge of panic.
The two big projects that have been killing me lately were still giving me trouble in some shape or another. I spent a lot of time troubleshooting this week.
I finished CARE up for the next review on Tuesday but not before some files that were fine before started giving me problems in the way of internal software errors. I eventually got it worked out but not before eating up lots of time.
Then on Wednesday the job that gave me anxiety last week needed more tweeking. At one point I was working on two computers at the same time to do both gigs.
Somewhere along the line my Flash file for this job that HAD to be finished went corrupt. I didn’t know for awhile because I could access the file fine but couldn’t publish it. I spent valuable time (over 2 hours) trying to either recreate or troubleshoot things before I could do the actual changes. I was proud I was able to figure out the problem but now I was in a major time crunch. I had to finish this Wednesday end of day. I did but yikes.
Thursday and Friday I was in training on Apple’s Motion. I have tried to sign up for this darn class several times but in those cases I was the only one who signed up so they canceled. John at work signed up and was facing the same fate so I signed up. There was another guy at Loyola who signed up as well.
This class was over by Ohare. The instructions on their site to get to them proved to be the worst directions. While I found the place, it took nearly 2 hours to get there and they had me going around in circles. The next day I looked it up on Google and shaved at least 20 minutes off my time. I actually got there 30 minutes earlier today but I think the TriState wasn’t as congested as it was yesterday.
Anyway the class kind of sucked. I learned a lot but that was mainly because it was a cool software with lots of things to learn but the instructor wasn’t really prepared, he just went through the book page by page.
We were suppose to get books to go along as well but they sent version 1 and we needed version 3.
On top of that the computers they had sucked and 3 of us (John escaped) had crashes that sometimes took the file with them. Really gave me the impression that Motion was an unstable software and I don’t think it is. I don’t think the iMacs they used were up to the task. Ok, crashing I can take but in 2 cases it totally deleted my file with it. Eek.
Back to anxiety. While I was in class today my cell phone went off. It was the boss. If he is calling me it can’t be good. I worried about the job I barely finished up before I left.
Nope it is CARE. They have a list of changes and the time crunch is on. The boss was worried that I might not have enough time on Monday to do them and get them out by Wednesday.
Just like last week with the other job, most of the changes are easy, minor but there are 2 big ones that I can’t forecast that I can fix in time. Even though both jobs are completely different (last weeks was a animated Flash booth display and this one is an authored DVD interactive game and video) I am taken by how similar the situation is.
I spent the rest of the class (and the night for that matter) fretting that I wasn’t going to be able to fix the two biggies.
My philosophy has always been not to fret and worry until absolutely necessary. For some reason I can’t seem to follow it.
I am not a drinker… at all! RAW is in Indiana and Hollace is in bed so tonight I thought I would finish off the *box* of wine that has been sitting around since Sherry was here for Ravinia (btw, Sherry was suppose to come up this weekend but canceled on me). I choked down a full glass of the Chardoney quickly. I was going for effect to take the anxiety edge off.
I guess it is working. I am stumbling around in this blog post LOL.
Blah, blah, blah, I am done rambling on. I have purged. Good night.