I hate graphics

Today has been the kind of day where I would have been better off just finding a brick wall and beating my head against it.

It started off with this guy from customer services coming over and telling me that he needs a secure extranet website for use with a customer tomorrow. You know, there's only so much I can do... replicating a domain name throughout the internet on his time frame just ain't one of them. So I killed three hours setting up a very poor alternative. Then he told me that he needs to be able to add files. He doesn't know shit about websites and my work around is on our public website and no way am I letting him touch that. So he's going to call me at 4 a.m. when he knows exactly what he needs. How very swell of him. And, of course, all of this was couched in tems of how I should feel sorry for him because he had this problem and we all have to pull together to serve the customer. My view was that if he had properly anticipated this problem (which nearly any fool could have seen coming a long way back), I could have had a very nice solution for him. GRRRRR

And then the graphics. We have a new logo. It looks wonderful. BUT, all I know about graphics is that print graphics and digital graphics don't mix, don't act alike, aren't interchangeable and are a giant headache for moi. The designer is a print guy who knows how to deal with printer people. I am a worker bee who knows how to deal with Word and HTML. The digital options he gives me to work with do not even come close to looking like what he produces or what I need. He doesn't understand what I need. I'm not smart enough to give him the information he needs to understand. I'm soooo frustrated.

And, the Mariners are losing.... Where in the heck is that brick wall....

I hate graphics

Today has been the kind of day where I would have been better off just finding a brick wall and beating my head against it.

It started off with this guy from customer services coming over and telling me that he needs a secure extranet website for use with a customer tomorrow. You know, there's only so much I can do... replicating a domain name throughout the internet on his time frame just ain't one of them. So I killed three hours setting up a very poor alternative. Then he told me that he needs to be able to add files. He doesn't know shit about websites and my work around is on our public website and no way am I letting him touch that. So he's going to call me at 4 a.m. when he knows exactly what he needs. How very swell of him. And, of course, all of this was couched in tems of how I should feel sorry for him because he had this problem and we all have to pull together to serve the customer. My view was that if he had properly anticipated this problem (which nearly any fool could have seen coming a long way back), I could have had a very nice solution for him. GRRRRR

And then the graphics. We have a new logo. It looks wonderful. BUT, all I know about graphics is that print graphics and digital graphics don't mix, don't act alike, aren't interchangeable and are a giant headache for moi. The designer is a print guy who knows how to deal with printer people. I am a worker bee who knows how to deal with Word and HTML. The digital options he gives me to work with do not even come close to looking like what he produces or what I need. He doesn't understand what I need. I'm not smart enough to give him the information he needs to understand. I'm soooo frustrated.

And, the Mariners are losing.... Where in the heck is that brick wall....

TV

During the Summer there is generally a baseball game on TV every night and this keeps my knitting projects covered and me entertained. But the Mariners were off yesterday and played an afternoon game today so I had two baseball free nights in a row.

Last night I watched the first four episodes of Gay Weddings. They are following four couples - two lesbian couples and two gay couples around as they plan their weddings. Only one out of the four couples are really too obnoxious to watch and the rest are all kind of interesting - nice people and fun to watch.

Then last night I also watched the new Caroline Rhea show. Now. I was a big Rosie fan the first couple of years. The next couple, I followed along out of habit. The last two... I taped most of them and fast forwarded through most of them. When Charoline Rhea substituted for Rosie, I was underwhelmed (I really wanted Katie Couric to give up her bascillion dollar Today Show job and take over Rosie's show). Anyway... I watched the first Caroline Rhea show yesterday and it was pretty sad.

I have no clue why I watched the second one tonight but it turned out to be her first 'live' show and it didn't suck at all. What a nice surprise! I like seeing who's on Broadway and who's staring in what movie and what TV show but I can't stand any of the late night guys - except Jon Stewart and he doesn't really count (please don't tell him I said that he's already got a complex about being on cable).

So... tomorrow there is no game and there are the final Gay Wedding episodes and another Caroline Rhea.

TV

During the Summer there is generally a baseball game on TV every night and this keeps my knitting projects covered and me entertained. But the Mariners were off yesterday and played an afternoon game today so I had two baseball free nights in a row.

Last night I watched the first four episodes of Gay Weddings. They are following four couples - two lesbian couples and two gay couples around as they plan their weddings. Only one out of the four couples are really too obnoxious to watch and the rest are all kind of interesting - nice people and fun to watch.

Then last night I also watched the new Caroline Rhea show. Now. I was a big Rosie fan the first couple of years. The next couple, I followed along out of habit. The last two... I taped most of them and fast forwarded through most of them. When Charoline Rhea substituted for Rosie, I was underwhelmed (I really wanted Katie Couric to give up her bascillion dollar Today Show job and take over Rosie's show). Anyway... I watched the first Caroline Rhea show yesterday and it was pretty sad.

I have no clue why I watched the second one tonight but it turned out to be her first 'live' show and it didn't suck at all. What a nice surprise! I like seeing who's on Broadway and who's staring in what movie and what TV show but I can't stand any of the late night guys - except Jon Stewart and he doesn't really count (please don't tell him I said that he's already got a complex about being on cable).

So... tomorrow there is no game and there are the final Gay Wedding episodes and another Caroline Rhea.