Showing posts with label Christmas Eve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas Eve. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Reading Comprehension: I Don't Has It

I worked from home today (and will do so on Friday). I'd asked my boss if I could yesterday, and she said, "Yeah, I was going to come around and tell you to do that."
Not that there was much in the way of work to do; I don't have any urgent projects going on right now, and other than an automated report, I didn't get a single piece of e-mail all day.
Tonight is typically Riff Trax night, but given that it's also Christmas Eve, I figured that Scott wouldn't be coming over tonight.
I was going to ask him via IM what, if anything, he wanted to do about it, but before I could he asked if I wanted to go to there place to watch a movie and order a pizza.
I misread his message and thought that he wanted me to do so that night. Initially I was reluctant, as I wasn't sure if I'd be going in to work today or not, but then I decided I might as well.
When I texted him to tell him what time I'd be there, he responded, "Tomorrow night?"
I replied that I thought it was tonight (Tuesday). He responded back with, "Sorry for the confusion," which actually left me more confused.
So I called him and found out that, in fact, he had meant tonight.
Anyway, that's straightened out, and that's what I'll be doing tonight.
When I got up this morning I had a response from my latest (and second ever) Heroic Portraits customer with some praise and criticisms/requests. So I set about making the changes and sent out a new proof. Shortly thereafter I got a call from him saying he was just around the corner and could he come pick it up?
So he came over, I printed it out, he wrote me a check, and he was off on his merry way.
With this breezy rate of business - Two customers in a year after two years of nothing! How will I keep up with the overwhelming demand? - I might actually turn a profit on the whole thing by 2014, which is even sadder than it sounds when you consider that I really haven't spent that much money on it, just the cost of the domain and hosting and the large format printer. Yet I'm still in the red. Or, you know, I would be if I actually kept any books for it. So I suppose that's one way of avoiding having to look at the depressing numbers: don't write them down.
Anyway, I hope you all have a nice Christmas Eve with your family and friends.

Monday, December 24, 2007

Christmas Eve

Model and adult film star Eve Angel, that is.



(Posted just in case Santa is in need of some last-minute gift ideas for me.)