This lemonade stand CEO was almost beat. It’s been nothing but work, work, work, and drive, drive, drive. Last week was not pretty. In fact, I don’t think last week has even ended yet; I don’t remember even having a weekend. Let’s see: I did my full-time work during the day, drove home, did my freelance work during the night, went to sleep, and drove back to work again — day after day after day. I had to come in…
Caution: Venting Ahead. The amount of memory on my Mac G3 isn’t nearly enough. I’ve had about all that I can take from the constant crashes every time I go from Photoshop to QuarkXPress or from Internet Explorer to Outlook. Particularly frustrating are those instances when I realize that the computer has frozen again — after I’ve made numerous changes in a 12-page, four-color document… and I hadn’t even saved it yet. Yesterday was a special kind of hell; not…
Danger exists in telecommuting — myopia, distraction, lethargy, and apathy. These four walls stand too closely together, and I don’t have the excuse of a commute to get out and drive through long stretches of road, focusing my eyes on something farther than my hands can reach. I have other things to see: my personal computer, my cat, my bed, my fridge, and my TV; it’s hard to keep on working when I know a nap is only three feet…