gigamatic

how did it get to be Wednesday?

Ugh.

Well, it's my mom's birthday, and she's still (just) under 60.

Nala's got the kitchen mostly done. I started piecing in the last couple slivers of drywall in the back bedroom, and that's taking for EVER. The drill-driver ran out of juice after the first 3 screws, and so it's charging now.

I'm still accepting volunteers who know anything about drywalling to help. Honest to god, I havent been so nervous about fucking something up since moving in with Nala 7.5 years ago. It's seriously making me ill, and it takes ALL of my willpower to do any little thing on this project, because I'm afraid I'll make it all ugly and uneven and just bad.

Sick. Seriously ill. Like wanting to vomit every time I think about it, let alone walk in the room.

Speaking of things to make me ill... I've been marginally involved in responding to an RFP here at work, and let me just say, the folks they've got writing this thing are ill-suited to the task, to say the least. I've never seen a more poorly written RFP, or a more poorly written response. Having worked in E COMMERCE CONSULTING, and written more than one RFP and probably more than a half-dozen responses, I know what they're supposed to look like, and this isn't it. I've had to get up and walk away -- they're working in the office next to mine, and when I overhear something stupid, I have to get away. Hiring a consultant doesnt make it better. Hiring one who seemingly hasnt done it before makes it appear even worse. Hiring one who doesn't know your business... priceless. I respect the man, and thankfully for him, he can walk away when it's all done with a hefty paycheck and not look back.

So, what else is going on? Well, I've been gathering pricing quotes on a lot of new hardware and software. 3 days in, and I still dont have solid quotes, which makes me bitter. And you dont want to be phone sales support with a bitter Giga. I am bound to say things to salespeople that their bosses didnt warn them about. However, I have solidified some good deals on the 2 new macs we're buying, and the software we need... I just need it in writing.

My boss is going on vacation for a week and a half, one week from today.

The "DAWG!" guy has just been called into the RFP group. He's a moron.

I'm also not surprised that I've found (after some research) that the same company to which we farm out our online ordering, has their server tools available for implementation in-house. This is me, banging my head on my desk, because nobody ever explored this option. I found 3 other vendors, none of which had software that more perfectly fit our needs, and then found the one we send everything thru had the tools we needed.

ARGH.