Ah life, it going. As always, lots of smoke and thunder and a whole lot of
stress. Sorry if this sounds like a bitch fest, but this >is< sort of a diary :)
We enter into another month, and things are limping along. I am of course
working with client S and that is bringing in some money but as always the
consulting game is a dangerous one. You wind up doing flat bids because
currently that’s where the work is, but at the moment that means working more
than 80 hours a week for a fairly low wage as consultancy goes.
It is a vicious cycle that is really draining me. Between that work and my
normal dotPublishing work, there is simply not enough time for me to get ahead
of what we need to do to get our proposal out the door – and time is definitely
running short on that. I have to get that out this week or I am going to be a
very unhappy camper.
But hey, 4 hours a day to sleep isn’t all that important :)
In general, we are keeping it together. The main problem right now is working
out how to deal with the loss of our health insurance. It’s $1,100 dollars a
month for four of us and even though we will be dropping one from that number I
am 2 months behind so it doesn’t help us to do so right now; as of Friday
morning it is gone. I simply can’t do that and pay the other bills. The
problem is, we were making some serious $ from those guys, Kimiko’s meds are in
excess of $950 a month alone if we aren’t insured so it clearly makes more sense
to have it :)
We do have some stuff going:
- The proposal to a "large name" in the game industry, if we can ship the
damn thing.
- A partnership with Curious Labs on marketing some custom poser content (3d
stuff)
- Negotiations with an investment group that may turn into a significant
amount of money in January (million+)
- Contract work worth about 2K when we deliver (2 weeks or so)
- A proposal out for work at a NJ college with client S that may well result
in 40K+ over the next 6 months or so
So if we can pull it out, this might turn out OK! Ok… back to work.
