Take This Job and Shove It

Watching the College World Series last night when Fresno State pulled off that amazing upset, I was reminded of all the close calls I had as a young lad competing and I was going to be compelled to talk about that. Then I decided to change up the ol' header and was going to discuss the amazing coincidence of having Pixar's newest movie have a main character that has always been a nickname for my clan. After all that, however, I got a couple of very interesting e-mails from the Yoga instructor whose site I had just built.

In the first, which I was cc'd on, she is telling someone named Tim all about how she wants her new products page to look. And within this email, I'm referred to as the 'old webmaster'. I was naturally confused about this as I didn't know anything was wrong. So I emailed her back asking if this site was to run alongside the current site as a ecommerce type of thing and learned that during a conference call earlier that day, she'd agreed to put her site on Tim's server and let him take it over. So I was more or less fired through a cc'd email. Not that there was ever any contract or anything, so technically I was never fired. It was more like not having my option picked up. I guess the life of the part-time freelancer is like that. But the part that made it even better was in the second email where she let me know that she'd still need my help after the transition was made until she could learn the new system. So apparently, she's jumping to this other system without the knowledge of how it's run, then not going to the person who owns the server, but through me. The guy that isn't responsible for the site anymore.

I may be a bit bitter over this, and probably don't need to be. Actually I should have seen it coming, she did a similar thing to my cousin when he was filming her first documentary. She was fast talked by an older producer (who is the same guy who hooked her up with this new webdude) into making another version of the Baby Yoga video. He brought two of his own cameras and some headsets. Then used two of my cousins cameras, his digital SLR, his homemade camera crane, me as a cameraman, one of the Yoga teacher's students houses, and had my cousin edit the whole thing and do re shoots. So basically my cousin did the same video twice, but this other dude got paid for it. It seems the same thing is happening to me with the website. I'm sure that I'll still be getting paid for some things, I'm definitely getting paid for this months work. So someone else will be able to get a paycheck for the work that I've done. I guess such is life.

It wouldn't have been all that awful, but I'm also losing control of the school district site that I run. It's going to a new system that's supposed to make it easier for others to update their own sites, but I guess we'll just have to see about that one. I feel that I'll be just as busy as before answering all the questions. It will be a much nicer looking site because the designer is a professional (which I'm not at all) and he won't have the administrators telling him that they deserve to be on the home page, even though they don't...at all.

On the brighter side of life, however, I do get to go to the DMV today to renew my drivers license. I've updated my vitals, as my old one says I'm 5'10 and 12o lbs. which I was at 16 when I first got my license. However, now at the ripe old age of 28, I've hit a couple growth spurts and added my daddy weight. So think of me at around 10:20 as I'll be filling out paperwork, and giving DMV money to take my picture and put it on that little plastic card that says I get to drive a Class C vehicle.

I miss those championship games. Even though my team lost most of them, the reality is that they were so important at the time, and now looking back, I realize how much those insignificant games really meant for me. I'm able to cope with the losses that are coming my way now, able to deal with the inevitable heartache and headache that accompany a trip the DMV. And I know that no matter what, things always happen for a reason, and it will get better.