Reflections on Valentines
So today is February 14th. It is an interesting day. Today is Valentines Day (or Singles Awareness Day depending on your situation). I find this day to be very interesting. It is a day set aside to show people that you love them, especially that "certain someone".
I have never been a big fan of this day. And it's not because I am always alone and feeling resentful. In fact for most of my "adult" life I have had at least a date (if not more) on every Valentines Day. This year I have a date once again with a girl I have seen quite a few times. But if she wasn't into Valentines then it would just be another date as far as I am concerned.
The reason that I have never been a fan is because I don't see why people need a special day to show people that they love them. It has always been my belief that you should show the people that you love your feelings for them as often as possible, even every day if that is an option. And gifts of love shoud not be reserved for one day a year. If you have that "certain someone" in your life that you love then you should be showing up with gifts of love year round. It can be anything from a little note to a special getaway for two. Anything that shows how much you care will work.
3 Weeks Back
So it has been three weeks since I got back from Florida. It wasn't that great coming back to Utah. But theres not much I can do about that right now. It was a little hard getting back into the swing of things. Especially at work.
There hasn't been a lot of good projects going since I got back. I have been able to code a few websites and do some random jobs. And work on a little bit of Flash. But they haven't been to exciting. Plus an insane DVD project has recently come back for the FIFTH round. I started working on it back in November a little before Thanksgiving. I wouldn't mind working on a DVD project (I actually rather enjoy video editing) if it wasn't such a pain. The project was started by the guy that I replaced and he was an idiot. He deleted some of the key files for the project and screwed up some other files that he did save. On top of that I have had to make edits to the content of the DVDs without being able to go back to FInal Cut and edit the original movies. Needless to say I have had a hard time with it from the begining. Well for this round the client came back with a dewsey. He now wants one of the chapters that has been split between two DVDs since the begining to be on one DVD. This wouldn't be to hard, except all of my editing has to be done inside DVD Studio Pro. Pretty crazy I know. The sad part is that none of the time I put into the project is billable now. They only charged the guy $10,000 for the project (6 DVDs total originally). They under estimated the cost by a ton.
But that is enough venting for now I just need to let off some steam once in a while. Don't get the wrong idea though. In reality I really do love my job and working where I do. I have fun every day I go in even if I do work on crapy projects for 8 hours a day sometimes. The only bad part, which is good at the same time, is that I'm on salary. So all the overtime I have to put in to get projects (like the stupid DVDs) done is just free labor for the company. But I think knowing how much I will be bringing home every paycheck makes up for that.
