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bah doing it all over again

17:50 Thursday 02 April 2015 JST

The project was originally described as "keep the same structure and just change all the text."

Cool sounds good, and it paid relatively well.

Once I accepted, it was, "oh and put up a full page banner with four clickable images below it while we change all the text and change all the images"

Fine fuckit so I put the banner up and I changed all the images; it was still fair pay for the total amount of work.

Okay, so we changed all the text (and some CSS), and all the images, some of which were in jpg while the site requested png, and alll of which were misnamed, but fine it's done. Gimme my money.

"Oh, sorry. The boss doesn't like the colors; need to replace all the images again."

Okay, now it's no longer funny. I haven't gotten paid the first amount yet and now it's near double work, and work that could have been avoided, imho.

"Oh and change some of the text again, and can check why the email isn't working?" So even my project manager doesn't know anything about web. The link was <a href="address@domain.com">email us!</a> which is obviously not going to work!

"Oh and though I didn't mention it before, can you make all the outgoing links open in a new tab?"

"oh and add some text to each of these h4s but make them smaller so the text doesn't go past two lines, and add a new paragraph here and two new paragraphs there?"

bah.

google mapmobile

09:18 Thursday 02 April 2015 JST

I saw a car with a Google branding and a multi-windowed ball on top. Ah! The Google Mapmobile! I was on Lin's bicycle so I zoomed along beside/behind the car as much as possible, then stopping at lights as it got stopped. I didn't stare at it like crazy but I'm sure I'll be in a fair few frames along the street we were on together.

super fun lesson with gg

20:50 Thursday 02 April 2015 JST

Super fun lesson today with GG; just going in to the room, just before which time I had purchase a poor-me chocolate bar, I felt all my grouchiness lift away and no need to chow chocolate!

We laughed a lot and they said they learned a lot; it's really a great class.

This is the day I paid 100 yen each of two times that GGE translated something into Japanese unnecessarily. She said she didn't have the money handy so I pulled it out of my wallet as a symbol that it's srsbzns: please only use English during the lesson(!)

After the lesson she matched my 200 yen after getting her bag; so now there's 400 yen in the pot.