My life is completely crazy right now.
Work is… wow. These are my last official days with my current company. They are NOT EVEN CLOSE to being ready for me to leave. It’s kind of the thing where you really don’t realize how much you’re involved until you try not to be? There’s so much to get done and so many things to pass on and so much I really, really need to do and only 16 hours left to do it in. It’s scary. I’ve offered to stay on as a consultant for awhile. I partially hope they don’t take the offer up because I don’t want to work EVEN MORE. OTOH, the money would be nice and being able make sure things go well after I’m gone would be nicer.
I know I shouldn’t care as much as I do, but I’m the only person who’s ever done this job. It was created, I was handed it and I’ve been running with it for 9 years. I know all the ins and outs and ups and downs and as good as my documentation is, there’s nothing like experience. I know I’m moving on to bigger and better things but a part of me is still clinging very tightly. I hope I can let go.
OK so next, Sporkley and I worked yesterday a lot on masseffect2saves.com (and the main site, too.) And everything is up and running well and we’re very happy.
Then, I discovered some asshole stole all the content on ME2saves and created his own shitty knockoff site and has been going around not saying he’s me but not saying he’s not, either. So now I’m dealing with DMCA takedown notices and stuff. WHY do people do this stuff?
I mean, I’ll be honest, the sites basically make enough to support themselves for hosting, domain registration and bandwith/space costs, I pay Sporkley a % of the revenue from ads and basically I have about enough money left over to eat out at Chili’s once every couple of months. This is not big bucks. This is a labor of love. I make way below minimum for my work and I’m completely ok with that. But all of the work is MY and Sporkley’s work. My idea for the sites. My upkeep, Sporkley’s coding and Joakim’s web design, which, thankfully, was not stolen.
It’s just a pain in the ass and is kind of souring my anticipation for ME3. And now I had to go create Facebook and Google+ pages for it to make it clear these sites are mine, not shittyspammerdude’s. The buttons are ugly and cluttering up the already kind of cluttered front pages.
And last, mom and I went on vacation last week, on a cruise on the Disney Wonder and that kicked all sorts of ass. I highly recommend Disney cruises, even if you don’t have kids. And yes, I travel with my mom a lot. We’re very close and make good travelling companions. However, it’s good to be home. I’m just kind of wishing it was next week at this point.
Better yet, March 6th.