Brief Update
Tue, 22 July, 2008 – 9:55 pm
Yes, it's been a couple of weeks. I'm still alive… just. The site (that 2 week site) finally went live on Friday after 8 weeks of work, and it's not finished yet! It was rushed for going live as TV adverts for the site were already in place. Despite this I still wasn't left to actually finish what was already decided on, and further amendments kept coming right up to 2 hours before the first advert went out! Will clients never learn? I've got 2 major sites on the go, one I'm working on mainly, the other I'm mainly co-ordinating and doing minor work on. Both need to be completed ASAP.
However, my back is still in pain. I finally saw a doctor today who pretty much ruled out Kidney problems (which I'd already guessed) and just put it down to a muscular strain. Personally I think it's a trapped nerve as the stabbing pains come on instantly and can go just as quick. Some days it doesn't come on, others it can be there constantly. I've not been able to do much at all for fear of making the pain worse.
We decided to venture out on Sunday, over to Liverpool to see the Tall Ships that had come in on Friday. I'd hoped to go over on Friday and see them arriving, but that 2 week project had over run a little(!!). Sunday was a glorious day weather wise. We got there around 3pm and the place was just swarming with people. After a short walk in the area of Albert Dock we headed over to Wellington Dock, where most of the ships were along with various stalls and food/drink stalls. It was a nice couple of hours wandering around looking at the ships. After this we went back to the centre of Liverpool and after a quick drink break we took a walk around the new shopping area called Liverpool One. Certainly somewhere I need to go with my Mum and an empty credit card! However, after all the walking around my back certainly felt it yesterday. But I'm glad we went and it's certainly an event I'd recommend to anyone (apparently its on every year, but I'd never heard about it before now).
And that's about it. Work, stress and back pain 
It's not all bad though 
Now this project is coming to a close things should calm down a little now (well for a while, although the projects are piling up whilst I finish what I've already started) and give me a chance to get back things back to normal a bit!
2 Responses to “Brief Update”
I can absolutely understand where you're coming from. Web projects that have a rushed deadline and not much support from the client to give you contentor info when you need it, makes it worse. I hate making the note "awaiting client" on my project progress schedule board. Hopefully things will settle down for you though after the completion of this project you're currently working on. Goodluck!
By Goran Giertz on Aug 25, 2008
Cheers Goran. It is a pain when clients are clearly unprepared. I can understand new options or ideas cropping up during development, something they may not have thought of, but a lot of these changes have been standard stuff that should have been discussed and explained at the start, not 3 months later!
By Sarah on Aug 26, 2008