Shoulda stood in bed...

It's nearly 8 pm and I've barely done 2 pages of the remaining 10 pages due tomorrow. The good news is that the client volunteered an extra day on the deadline; the bad news is that I have no extra days.

Most of the day has been spent trying to sit down and translate. More often than not, I keep getting distracted. The biggest distraction is the fellow who called... was it yesterday? He's got a 170-page job available, as long as I can get it finished by January 4.

I've spent a lot of time downloading files today, and printing them out. I have to print them on my dot-matrix, as I'm almost down to my last few grains of toner in the laser printer, so it's both time-consuming and a bother to listen to. I've printed 2 of 7 files, and the client is having trouble sending me the last part, a 5-megger. My PHP script won't let that file through, and I suspect the problem occurred after I took some of the risky code out of the script and made it a bit more bulletproof. Moreover, I am reluctant to print any more on the dot matrix for the evening, seeing as how Huntur has "retired" for the evening, and her bedroom is on the other side of my office wall. Ah, well...

So, if I can finish my current job by Thursday the 13th, that leaves me 5 days to do the steel tank job, which has 46 pages left in it. Simple math tells me I need to do about 10 pages a day to get that one done.

So then, if I can finish that job by next Tuesday, that leaves me 17 days for 170 pages (no holidays, no days off), for another roughly 10 pages per day. That's going to be rough, since both the kids will be gone right after Christmas and Caleb is taking time off then, too. That leaves me and Galina, which means I'll be spending a lot of time at the store in the week between Christmas and New Year's.

So the upshot of it all is... I don't know whether to take the job or not. The reasons to take it are obvious. So are the reasons not to.

And here I sit, with hardly anything done for the day. Ah well... let's see if we can put a teensly bit larger dent in that.

Cheers...

It's not the code...

The client called to say he tried my original script, the one that once let me upload a 10-MB file. It won't work with the 5-MB one he has for me. Drat.

The error message he got from my script isn't too helpful unless I can get someone from my hosting company to look at the error log, and even that may not tell me much.

I am well and truly beat. I have been trying to look up this one term having to do with ladders and landings, but can't seem to keep on task for more than about 10 seconds before something else blurs my vision and demands I pay attention to it.

I don't know how I'm going to get all of this done.

Cheers...