I am encountering an overload point — While I used to think it wasn’t possible, perhaps it is due to the fact that now I have a fulltime job. Prior to that I was working a flexible schedule and thus, was capable of finishing off whatever project I had based on priority. Unfortunately, with a fulltime job … it means I am required to focus my attentions on stuff at hand. My frustrations however, are based around the resources I must work with:
- A computer that is insanely slow (256 megs of RAM people!) and a mouse that chooses to declare its independence every 5 minutes. This makes life annoying and graphic design near to impossible. A monitor screen that would probably detiorate faster than the halflife of a carbon atom that is on fire — and of course a resolution and refresh rate that makes Flickr sound like heaven for the eyes.
- No HTML or graphic design programs aside from a copy of Photoshop 7 on a MAC. This means I must depend on open source programs such as The GIMP and Inkscape … which are great programs, but still have ways to go and ultimately I am dependent on programs from Adobe and Macromedia (which are the same company now in case you didn’t know)
- I actually contemplate buying the software myself and a laptop!… sad sad sad!
- Bibliographic databases and online retailers or wholesalers – a wonderful idea, poorly implemented across the world. I look forward to learning more about this ONIX stuff. But wow… is it a mess! XML may be all the rage, but there sure are a lot of standards to be set properly.
- And of course … the time I spend commuting. If it is one thing I dislike immensely about my current lifestyle, it is the fact that I have to lose sleep and spend about 3 to 4 hours of the day commuting. I seriously wish they’d have that teleporter stuff operational from Star Trek. That… or give me a helicopter and two helipads.
- I get home from work, eat dinner and then I have two hours of
playmore work to do because I believe in helping people and also in the projects I am pushing forward on. And then I hit the hay!
But aside from all of those frustrations, I cannot say enough great things about the people I work with who are an inspiring bunch. If only we had the resources. One day, I will bring in greater resources. One way or another.
If I disappear, do not be surprised and do not fear anything. I made a few promises to some people and I intend on keeping them. All that is left in the end is dust in the wind and many many memories. It is these pieces of time and history that carry a portion of a story. For more information, please read again, and again, and again…
