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Belated updates and all that: 51st journal
16 years ago
This is my head.
Been a long long time since I updated my journal. I been a busy busy busy dwaggie. I could write volumes of things that happened since my last but I mercifully be brief as possible to those few who are reading this. I don't want to be too boring.
Things at work are picking up again. We finally had a so-called slow period due to the low economy though I only had one short week as I had plenty of projects to do. But now it is getting crazy. We hired a bunch of the temps back and even some new people as we. The prospects are looking up for the rest of the year and beyond after getting a bleak outlook during August where our business was like half normal. It got so bad that our SEP (Simple Employee Plan) retirement was canceled for this year. That sucked sine it was 15% of our wage going into it. Also all raises are frozen this year.
But things could have been worse as our customers (and competitors) are not doing as well as us. One of our clients even had 90% downturn. Some of them had three rounds of layoffs too. We been steady since we as adding new customers just before the blunt of the recession took hold. What was to be a breakout year dropped just enough to keep things steady until August hit. Thankfully it was only that month as things are going up again. Looks like next year will explode. And since our competitors got weakened more than use, we are sitting pretty indeed.
Now onto my memoirs. As my few readers noticed, I haven't touch them in several months. I did plan on a short hiatus but it get like a cancer and lasting half a year. I want to get back to them and plan to once I am finished with my current project.
Some of you seen my 2D animations. This is something new for me as I did 3D videos previously (short clips many years ago). I'm having fun with it and largely happy with the results. Animating with GIMP not an easy thing to do as it is not geared for that but I think I am managing ok. I want to learn flash as it is better suited for this. If only I had more time and not so lazy.
Right at this moment, I am sitting at 660 watchers, just 6 more to hit 666. Once I get there, that I can set off my next phase of my plan of world domination. Muwhahahahaha. Oh wait, ignore that last comment.
Anyway, it would be cool to reach that point. It is fustration though as my number of watchers bounce up and down. Luckily the trend is upward though slow and goes in spurts. I hope to reach that goal before Halloween. Judging by the rate of climb, it is going to be close.
Another lofty milestone that approaches near is getting 15k views. Sitting less than 100 to got in fact. Lucky for my heart, that number can't go down, only up though often slow. So I am announcing a 15k pageview kiriban. If any of you spot that number, grab a screenshot. The winner(s) will get something special do be determined then. I suggest posting the screeenshot on Imagebin.org as FA doesn't like such screenshots posted despite having a screenshot category. They will delete it on sight.
One last thing for those that still reading this. I want to promote my IRC channels on FurNet IRC. IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat and is essentially the first chat service on the internet. You need a client like mIRC, Xchat, Pidgin, ChatZilla and many more. You can get more information on how to connect to FurNet by clicking on the chat link in the upper right.
Once you get on one of the FurNet servers, you can join one or both my channels there. The first one is #the_lair, a friendly place to chat and have some fun while making friends. The other, #bellyofthebeast, is also friendly but in a different way. Almost anything premitted there and can get quite scary and messy as well. Be aware of that when you take the plunge. Not a place for the faint of heart types. #the_lair better suited as it is a bit tamer. But still interesting stuff can and do happen there from time to time.
There, that should cover a good deal of what been happening here. I skip tons of stuff to keep this short but if are curious, I can go into more details. If and when I hit either of those milestones, I'll make another update and see if I can go into things further.
Things at work are picking up again. We finally had a so-called slow period due to the low economy though I only had one short week as I had plenty of projects to do. But now it is getting crazy. We hired a bunch of the temps back and even some new people as we. The prospects are looking up for the rest of the year and beyond after getting a bleak outlook during August where our business was like half normal. It got so bad that our SEP (Simple Employee Plan) retirement was canceled for this year. That sucked sine it was 15% of our wage going into it. Also all raises are frozen this year.
But things could have been worse as our customers (and competitors) are not doing as well as us. One of our clients even had 90% downturn. Some of them had three rounds of layoffs too. We been steady since we as adding new customers just before the blunt of the recession took hold. What was to be a breakout year dropped just enough to keep things steady until August hit. Thankfully it was only that month as things are going up again. Looks like next year will explode. And since our competitors got weakened more than use, we are sitting pretty indeed.
Now onto my memoirs. As my few readers noticed, I haven't touch them in several months. I did plan on a short hiatus but it get like a cancer and lasting half a year. I want to get back to them and plan to once I am finished with my current project.
Some of you seen my 2D animations. This is something new for me as I did 3D videos previously (short clips many years ago). I'm having fun with it and largely happy with the results. Animating with GIMP not an easy thing to do as it is not geared for that but I think I am managing ok. I want to learn flash as it is better suited for this. If only I had more time and not so lazy.
Right at this moment, I am sitting at 660 watchers, just 6 more to hit 666. Once I get there, that I can set off my next phase of my plan of world domination. Muwhahahahaha. Oh wait, ignore that last comment.
Anyway, it would be cool to reach that point. It is fustration though as my number of watchers bounce up and down. Luckily the trend is upward though slow and goes in spurts. I hope to reach that goal before Halloween. Judging by the rate of climb, it is going to be close.
Another lofty milestone that approaches near is getting 15k views. Sitting less than 100 to got in fact. Lucky for my heart, that number can't go down, only up though often slow. So I am announcing a 15k pageview kiriban. If any of you spot that number, grab a screenshot. The winner(s) will get something special do be determined then. I suggest posting the screeenshot on Imagebin.org as FA doesn't like such screenshots posted despite having a screenshot category. They will delete it on sight.
One last thing for those that still reading this. I want to promote my IRC channels on FurNet IRC. IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat and is essentially the first chat service on the internet. You need a client like mIRC, Xchat, Pidgin, ChatZilla and many more. You can get more information on how to connect to FurNet by clicking on the chat link in the upper right.
Once you get on one of the FurNet servers, you can join one or both my channels there. The first one is #the_lair, a friendly place to chat and have some fun while making friends. The other, #bellyofthebeast, is also friendly but in a different way. Almost anything premitted there and can get quite scary and messy as well. Be aware of that when you take the plunge. Not a place for the faint of heart types. #the_lair better suited as it is a bit tamer. But still interesting stuff can and do happen there from time to time.
There, that should cover a good deal of what been happening here. I skip tons of stuff to keep this short but if are curious, I can go into more details. If and when I hit either of those milestones, I'll make another update and see if I can go into things further.
Oh, and for recommending IRC programs, I personally use X-Chat 2 and I find much more convenient than mIRC, for example.
As for an IRC client, I been using mIRC for over a decade. I even registered it many centuries ago but lost it serial long ago one one of my older computers. The rare nag screen doesn't bother me so I never bothered searching for it. It works for me fine.