crap! wasted work

Just read through the e-mail & found that the fella I'm doing freelance for got a bee in his bonnet today & decided to finish a section I was in the middle of doing. Sent me an e-mail alerting me to the bonnet bee around midday as he was beginning to forge ahead, but by the time I saw it a good hunk o' text I'd tediously prepped to upload was already on the site. Counting the 45 minutes I'd spent this afternoon on it, that means about 3.5 hours of work I did was wasted, having been duplicated by him.

We're getting toward the end of the construction of the site, at least basically, so I've known this source of supplemental income would be ending soon. Should make it easier to let go here, I know. But there's something that's getting my goat, or sticking in my craw, or some expression along those there lines, about the mindless boring time at the keyboard I spent for $11/hr but no real use.

(The guy who's paying me to do the gig isn't the guy who's in charge of the thing.)

Ah, well. Guess it means I can go catch up on the last several days of ljland. I'll bop in later to tell of houseguest, perhaps, if I'm not at the pool already.

TORNADO WATCH out there, btw, folks!

crap! wasted work

Just read through the e-mail & found that the fella I'm doing freelance for got a bee in his bonnet today & decided to finish a section I was in the middle of doing. Sent me an e-mail alerting me to the bonnet bee around midday as he was beginning to forge ahead, but by the time I saw it a good hunk o' text I'd tediously prepped to upload was already on the site. Counting the 45 minutes I'd spent this afternoon on it, that means about 3.5 hours of work I did was wasted, having been duplicated by him.

We're getting toward the end of the construction of the site, at least basically, so I've known this source of supplemental income would be ending soon. Should make it easier to let go here, I know. But there's something that's getting my goat, or sticking in my craw, or some expression along those there lines, about the mindless boring time at the keyboard I spent for $11/hr but no real use.

(The guy who's paying me to do the gig isn't the guy who's in charge of the thing.)

Ah, well. Guess it means I can go catch up on the last several days of ljland. I'll bop in later to tell of houseguest, perhaps, if I'm not at the pool already.

TORNADO WATCH out there, btw, folks!

Webster's top ten non-words

Webster's Top Ten Favorite Words (Not in the Dictionary)
[#3 I shall forever associate with upsidedownblue]:

1. ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous
2. confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time
3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement
4. chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends
5. cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway
6. gription (n): the purchase gained by friction: "My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription."
7. phonecrastinate (v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number
8. slickery (adj): having a surface that is wet and icy
9. snirt (n): snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed
10. lingweenie (n): a person incapable of producing neologisms

The definition of "snirt" doesn't seem right---or the word for that stuff, or something. I gather there may be a need for a word like "phonecrastinate," though, at least if a common phenom like that needs a single verb.

Webster's top ten non-words

Webster's Top Ten Favorite Words (Not in the Dictionary)
[#3 I shall forever associate with upsidedownblue]:

1. ginormous (adj): bigger than gigantic and bigger than enormous
2. confuzzled (adj): confused and puzzled at the same time
3. woot (interj): an exclamation of joy or excitement
4. chillax (v): chill out/relax, hang out with friends
5. cognitive displaysia (n): the feeling you have before you even leave the house that you are going to forget something and not remember it until you're on the highway
6. gription (n): the purchase gained by friction: "My car needs new tires because the old ones have lost their gription."
7. phonecrastinate (v): to put off answering the phone until caller ID displays the incoming name and number
8. slickery (adj): having a surface that is wet and icy
9. snirt (n): snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed
10. lingweenie (n): a person incapable of producing neologisms

The definition of "snirt" doesn't seem right---or the word for that stuff, or something. I gather there may be a need for a word like "phonecrastinate," though, at least if a common phenom like that needs a single verb.