Closer

July 24, 2008 in Uncategorized | 3 comments

In addition to the closet gig I got hired by someone in the program to build a website for them.  It’s turned out to be a much bigger job than I anticipated.  It is going to require learning Dreamweaver, Falsh, Photoshop.  Actually he lent me his PowerBook G4 and bought a new iMac - the big one, with extra memory - and the Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Master Edition.

I’m in way over my head and way under budget.  And I’m still holding my breath for money.

It might have been a good time to stop smoking, being out of cigarettes and all, but I scraped up $1.30 and headed over to the gas station around the corner at 2 this morning.  The dude working there gave me a pack of smokes.  Stale Winstons but what the fuck.  I am simply, at the moment anyway, unable to sit at a computer doing anything, especially stuff that requires extreme attention, without chain smoking and guzzling coffee.  The true mark of a geek, in’it?

So I’m distracting myself with Andy Warhol’s “Heat”.  Hot.  Bad and hot.

Closer to solvent, bad, and hot.

  1. Marc on July 24, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    1.30? I may have to start smoking again and move to Boise. I certainly don’t think chainsmoking and guzzling coffee is remotely nerdy. More like Truck Stop Diner, no?

  2. Chris on July 24, 2008 at 9:23 pm

    Cigarettes here actually run $3.45 - $4.00, but the gas station around the corner marks down stale and unpopular cigarettes. Newport, Gold Coast, GPC (Gay People’s Cigarettes). You know, when you need a fix you’ll ingest, imbibe, inhale, or inject almost anything to get it. The life of an addict, eh? So glamorous.

  3. Java on July 25, 2008 at 6:18 am

    Being out of cigarettes and out of money does sound like a good incentive to stop smoking. However, being out of money and over your head on a job and in recovery and totally stressed out does NOT sound like a good time to stop smoking. It is better for your health, etc. if you do not smoke. Duh, everyone knows that. Sometimes that is secondary to surviving the day.

    Good luck with the web design.