And so, after finally wrapping up the Marinara, Nivea and Fashion Festival projects over the past 3 weeks, I can finally breathe a little easier. I do have 3 web projects (a law firm, a real estate brokerage, and a medical institute) waiting in the wings though, which should keep me pretty busy until early August. That means I’m pretty much booked for the entire 3rd quarter, although fortunately web projects are a lot less stressful than video, because I can pace myself properly. (Not to mention the fact that I’ve programmed so many modules over the past 3 years that the development tasks for sites such as these are usually just reduced to tweaking my old code.)
Last Monday I interviewed a gray-market auto dealer in the Greenhills North area, for Manual. Lots of very expensive machinery there. The owner’s daughter was pretty cute too, although I found out later that she was a bit old for me :(
… not that I’m actively looking, of course. (Yep, that’s me acting whipped, right there.)
I’ve written 5 different intros to the article, and I’m just now settling on the sixth and final draft. Writing about cars can be pretty tricky work, especially since I’ve never been much of an enthusiast. Hell, I just recently learned that “horsepower” actually does pertain to the “power of a horse,” i.e., a horse could do 33,000 foot-pounds of work per minute drawing coal from a coal pit, as determind by James Watt. Of course, our editor believes in placing his writers out of their element, which I figure is because he finds it entertaining as hell to see us flounder. (To be honest, I don’t even know if he does that to all of his contributors, or just me. Wouldn’t that be fun though.)
Also, I’m currently worrying about highfiber and its escalating bandwidth usage. I’m hoping I won’t have to upgrade its hosting package next month, but the signs are not optimistic.