Let the ranting begin...

You know me right?

Okay so most of you know I live a very busy life and well at times it becomes an overload and I get behind, well I'm in another behind situation again, this time caused from being away from work while dad was in the hospital and getting too many new projects at once, but the big issue that cases me to get behind is when one of my past clients wants a crap ton of changes made and wants them right now, yet the person that these clients come through doesn't charge for changes to the client or doesn't pay any extra for said changes. So then not only does it put me behind when I have to stop to fix the changes, but it also puts me behind on deadlines, etc.

How to fix this?

So to fix the issue I've found I have to shut out all projects and work non-stop on one project, knock it out and move to the next while ignoring email, im, etc to get caught back up, trust me.. you don't want to be in this position, it sucks.

Plus to top all of that I'm constantly getting new clients wanting work and well you know me.. I don't like to say no or refuse any client. I just have to tell them that there will be delay of a few weeks before I can get to their project. But most of the time they understand that and love my work enough to wait.

So the whole point of this is?

Well the point is I keep finding myself in this position each month, but at the same time I don't have enough income to hire employees, let alone there aren't many talented local web developers here that I know of, so right now I just keep chugging along, lets see where the train goes this time shall we....

So yeah.. thats my little rant for today.. needed to vent some where you know :) I'm getting to the point where I'm starting to not care as much of what other people think and I'm starting to voice my opinion more about things, some may hate me for this, but I'm sick of caring what others think of me, it shouldn't matter what others think you know.

Feel free to voice your opinion on the matter, I'd love to hear it :)

- Cody

Is there really a way to become a better writer or blogger? Especially someone who has a hard time with reading comprehension and staying focused on a book. I don't know about you but this is a sore subject for me and frankly one I’ve never been that great at. As you’ve noticed before in my posts, they are always short, simple, with no real structure to them. So what is your thoughts? Can you ever become a better blogger or writer, and learn to love to read books? Please leave your comments!

Thank you!

- Cody

Well how is everyone doing? So far I'm doing quite well, business is outstanding, personal life going really good, my father recovered well and is doing great, so yeah everything is pretty good.

New camera finally came in after back order, so new HV30 rig will be done here soon I hope, depends how things go. However more shooting in a few weeks on a new project.

Web stuff is going well, however staying offline as much as possible to focus on other things and enjoy life a bit more than I used to, needless to say I'm either at home working or sleeping, or I'm not home.

Gym's been going pretty good as well, I am seeing results so thats great, however not going as much as I'd like to, due to working all the time. However trying to keep the weekends free of business so I can enjoy other things you know. ;)

Enjoy, and speak later! Cheers!!!

Well today was going great, all of my rig equipment finally came in, I was working on my new rig lens system, etc, I've spent a good deal of money on my new rig and so on.

Well most of you know by now about the DVD/Informercial project I've been doing for about 4 or so months now. I've worked tons of it, shot a good hour or so worth of footage at a ton of places, etc. Well the whole project was started by a friend that I was introduced to by my neighbor, guy was pretty cool and he told me his idea for this project, he said one of his friends is an investor, etc. So to cut the long story short the deal we came to was I would get a camera for payment of doing the project along with 50% of all dvd sales. Soon after this agreement his investor friend bought the camera I choose and sent it to me. Everything was great, we started shooting, but as time went on things just kept changing, plans would change, this or that or this would change, etc, now coming to like the 4th month or so we've already got a ton of footage and we've done a ton on this project. So today this so called "Friend" decided to come to my house without notice, walk right in and preceded to ask questions about why I wasn't at a shoot that I really didn't have to be at this past weekend, not to mention I wasn't there because my father had a heart attack. Then he preceded to say that I'm taking the camera with me no matter what, it's the investors camera, yadda yadda yadda and so on. So I of course was pist because it was my gift/payment for helping on said project, etc.

So needless to say I'm done with this project the said people can go shove said camera up their A**es for all I care at this point. This is wrong in more than one point of view and simply I'm not going to tolerate this and I refuse to do anything else on this project or speak to them.

Not to mention just coming in my house and demanding and this "friend" being like 6'5" 400 and some pounds armed, (yes I know he was, he always is) and bringing along his druggie friend into my house, knowing he could do this at a time that my father is weak and can't really do anything. So needless to say yeah I'm quite pist but oh well just means I won't be doing anything for anyone else like this.

I'll just purchase me a new camera in a few weeks but thats besides the point of course.

oh well lesson learned again.