The Watering Hole

What a fuckin' day.

Had an important meeting with a client booked for today in London.

First, my business partner who I was going to meet at the clients office phoned me. He can't make it as he has a flat tyre and doesn't have a spare with him !

Then, my wife dropped me off at the train station (I try to avoid driving in London as much as possible).  I put my debit card into ATM to get some cash and the fuckin' machine mangled my card and kept it and didn't give me any money either.  I have other cards with me but fucked if I can remember the pin numbers for them !

So, no money, no ticket = no travel.

Now I have to phone the bank and sort out a new card etc.  New card will be here in 3 to 5 days.

Really pissed off by this time.

Phoned the client and cancelled todays meeting and rearranged for Friday.  Luckily he was absolutely fine with this.

Phoned my wife to pick me up from the station.

Now back at home.

Checked my emails and receive an email from another very important client cancelling tomorrows meeting....which is a real fucker as this guy is a multi-millionaire and I am desperately trying to go for a ride on his coat tails :-)   He's a really nice guy actually and have met with him several times before, but he does do things on a whim. He has decided to go on holiday instead and won't be back until 19th July.

Fuck, fucky, fuckity fuck fuck.

Oh and by the way, did I forget to say FUCK  >:(

Stay calm amigo, it will all sort out soon enough

Go home and play some guitar, and all will be well.   ;)

It's happening to everyone right now I think.

We were supposed to deliver our project to the customer on 6/3 which would trigger the next big deposit we've all been waiting for.  But first, we had to receive a generator and a gearbox and assemble them into a mounting assembly.  Both vendors promised delivery on 5/20 but both indicated they would be a bit late (annoying, but not a huge issue).  Then we find that a part for the gearbox hasn't even been shipped from Italy yet and has to go to Indiana to be added to the rest of the gearbox before being shipped to us.  The new estimated delivery date is 7/13 which means we'll be in a daily penalty period with our customer (started on 6/14).  So now we not only don't have the money we need to live on, but we're bleeding cash each day we have to wait.

Then it gets worse.  We get a call two nights ago from the generator vendor (getting calls at night are never a good thing).  Turns out the generator failed a cooling test and needs to be rebuilt - IN FRANCE!  The best guess is we won't have the generator until 8/3 which means getting everything to our customer around 8/17.  >:(

The bottom line is I STILL have to wait two more months to get money to live on and we'll end up with a good bit less at the end of the project thanks to 65+ days worth of penalty...  Sure, we're pummeling our vendors over the issues, but the only good that will do might be expedited shipping and discounts on our next orders.  ::)

*sigh*  :(

(I'm too depressed to even say "FUCK!" :( )

Well
I don't even want to tell whats going on with us right now...

DreamTheaterRules — Jun 30, 2011Well
I don't even want to tell whats going on with us right now...

You tease.....go on, you know you want to  ;D

it's serious stuff.   :(    Family health issues.  Not good.  

DreamTheaterRules — Jun 30, 2011it's serious stuff.   :(    Family health issues.  Not good.  

Oh, really sorry to hear that.