OK, so I thought the tights project would force me to post every day, but I was wrong. I was wrong!
Yesterday was just too much of a crush to post. I had to finish an overdue project in the morning, and then I had to get that 20 page training catalog ready for the printer, which took a couple of hours, then I had to take it to their shop in Morrisville, which also took a couple of hours because I got lost.
I get lost all the time in Raleigh. I think probably every single time I go someplace new in Raleigh, I get lost. But this time it wasn't my fault! The guy told me to go the wrong way off the exit ramp from 40. Plus, he didn't give me street names, just "turn right at second light" type directions. I got all the way to Briar Creek shopping center at 70 before I called them and got better directions from someone else.
So now both big print jobs are at their respective printers. This is the part that reminds me why I hardly ever do print work. It's so stressful. If I screw up an misspell a word on a web page, so what? We just fix it. But from now on, any mistake on those print jobs will cost money (my money, if it was my fault). If I don't catch it until after it's all printed, it won't be fixable at all. No wonder I used to have nightmares about bluelines when I worked for a graphic design shop.
But it hasn't been all stress. I have a new phone! Georg and I went out Thursday night and got phones. His first, an upgrade for me. I must say, phones have changed a lot in the past two years. This one has a functioning battery (unlike the old one), plus a color display, lets me assign different rings to different people, and oh yeah, has a camera! Which is really bad at taking photos in low light, but not that bad in decent light. Best of all, I had a 2 year contract before, so I got a hefty discount on the new phone, and they had a rebate going on, so the camera phone ended up costing about $10! woo!
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