October 01, 2002
ffffllllrrrrbrbrblelrublurber What a day,
ffffllllrrrrbrbrblelrublurberWhat a day, life, bleah. So I had a good client about a month ago and everything was very nicey-nice. The client's coder was a friend of mine, and he brought me in. I did the work, billed, got the check, everything was very nice. Then I heard today (after asking) that she tried to bust his nuts because I billed twice as many hours as he had estimated the job would take a month before I was brought in. I was inheriting a codebase, had to learn his custom-made MVC approach, and there were spec changes to boot. It's not like I'm twice as slow as this other guy or anything - I'd be faster now that I have the familiarity that he had.
Can't think of a very good way to handle that. That just sucks.
I'm trying super-hard to get a new project/client launched in the next few days. Today's a big day because tomorrow we show a bunch of stuff to the client. It's a bit tough because there are database dependencies and sometimes my hands are tied when I'm waiting on that stuff.
I've also been playing Onimusha 2 over at Pete's house. I got cantankerous and wrote something up the other day, and Peter blogged it.
Not much else going on. Just sorta pushing through.
Posted by Curt at October 1, 2002 11:53 PM