Inherently lazy/stupid
Friday, May 14th, 2004I have fucked up, seriously fucked up. I promised a client that I would make them a web site, similar to something that I did a few years ago. There shouldn’t have been a problem. Its only worth $2900 to me, which is probably too cheap, but it was to help me pad out my portfolio a little. That was in October last year and I still haven’t delivered the goods.
Six months, and about 200 hours working on the site have passed since then. On Wednesday I came to the conclusion that the way I had gone about solving the problem was all wrong and that the site would need significant redesign and even more work. The client keeps on calling me, I don’t know what to do, I just don’t answer the phone because I don’t know what to say. Its at the point where I should just cut my losses and ditch the project and hopefully move on to something else. That will make me look really bad in the development community and it will no doubt take me years longer to build up a decent reputation, but I don’t know what else to do.
I am supposed to go see an accountant in Melbourne next week to help sort out my tax problem. Hell, I am so lazy I haven’t even booked a flight yet. Who knows when I will get there.
I was about to give my condolences to the family of Nicholas Berg, and go on to state that while I don’t personally support beheading, this guy was in Iraq hoping to make his fortune out of an illegal invasion/occupation. Definitely one of those risk/reward things. But now I couldn’t be fucked.
