What day is it
Thu, 21 September, 2006 – 6:47 pm
It's been a long week of driving all over the place, doing business dealings and not getting much sleep. I'm completely confused this week as to what day it is (it's Thursday I know, but it doesn't seem like Friday tomorrow – but I'm not complaining!). We spent the first two days of this week driving up to London and learnt you cannot reach Edgeware by car during the week! We've had two new jobs through this week, one confirmed and one I'm waiting on. I had to turn down two jobs the other week as we're so busy, and if the work involves a large input from me then it just won't get done at the moment. I want to clear down everything that's on at present and then try and start afresh. However the two new jobs don't need much input besides the initial agreements, and the latter I'm quite excited about as well as it's working on an Extranet for a school. It's different to the normal website and a really good change of scenery, plus some parts will be a good challenge. So I'm trying to spend this week and next tying up loose ends to narrow down my work to just a couple of main sites.
Right now business is on the borderline of too much for us but not enough to hire anyone else. From the start of October I'm going to start charting my hours to make sure I'm definitely working 8 hours a day and not letting myself get distracted. The downside is getting phone calls from clients or having to spend mornings writing out quotes or replying to emails, it all takes time and to me it's less productive than working on a website. However it has to be done else ties are lost and no more work comes in!
Also a new business that I've been working on for a few years now is starting to see daylight again as connections are made again and fingers crossed that we can possibly finally launch the business early next year. If you want to keep up with information on that you'll need to visit my AIS Blog however.
Still it's friday tomorrow, so I'm hoping for a quiet weekend to leave me to get my work done 
Called the ISP support this morning and was told the ADSL could be down until Friday!! So we've packed for a week and a half and driven down to my parent's house (who are away until the weekend) where there's a nice 8MB connection not being used! We were coming down on Thursday anyhow, so a few extra days isn't so bad.
By Sarah on Mon, 2 October, 2006