Straight from the "that was fun" archive… The last week and a half has been hell. But for once, it had little to do with browser bugs.
My daughter came home will a low-grade fever last week, which turned into some kind of fluey/cold/miscellaneous toddler lurgy. The CDC should adopt us as their poster-family for viral vectors — whatever she had, my wife and I both got in same or mutated form. If bird flu ever lands… we’re screwed. I also have a much better understanding of just how effective plague rats were in medieval London…
In my case the lurgy was transmogrified into a delightful strep/sinus combo infection thing that (a) was gross and (b) resulted in me being doped up on steroids and antibiotics all week.
Aside from dashing my hopes of being an Olympic contender, this was most inconvenient. First of all, I had two investor pitches set up, and with the holidays bearing down on us I didn’t want to reschedule.
Secondly, I had promise promise promised myself that this week I would finally nail the tutorials for the beta users of Unifyr. The problem being that I was going to do words & pictures tutorials using Camtasia, rather than make people read stuff.
I made it through the pitches relatively unscathed. I hate starting a pitch with an excuse, so it wasn’t until well in to the conversation that I ‘fessed up and explained that a phone-stalker voice was not my usual method of pitching.
But I could not get the 10+ minute tutorial done.
Last Thursday, I finally had an increase in voice and a decrease in phlegm. That was to be the day! Only my daughter’s miscellaneous toddler lurgy had morphed into a projectile vomiting kind of thing. Several hours and a trip to the ER later (who knew Pediatricians had office Christmas parties), I was back on track. Ready to get it done…
Friday came and went all too quickly. Logan unearthed some bugs and a minor screwing by CVS (the version control system, not the pharmacy chain) that needed to be fixed.
Saturday was going to be my day. The day. The day I conquered the Tutorial.
Did I mention that I was leaving on Sunday and would be traveling for a few days? And that I can’t take all the recording/computer gear with me?
Tick tock…
Saturday morning flew by as I tracked down things for my trip (socks, pants and other critical stuff) and made a feeble attempt at getting organized. Thank god my wife is superhuman in that department!
Saturday afternoon arrived. I’m ready. I’m rehearsed. The rough draft has been assembled. I just need to grab the hi-res video and record clean audio.
The mini-monkey is entertained (thank you Curious George) and I am all set.
It’s at this point that I notice that the weather has gotten a little nasty. Stormy winds and rain.
Oh well, the mike shouldn’t pick it up too badly.
Ready? Set?
Power outage.
I shit you not. Whole damn neighborhood in darkness.
And then it came back. Only to flip off again. On. Off. On. Off. And stayed off. It got flaky around 5pm. It wasn’t on again consistently until after 10:30pm.
Ay Caramba!
It’s now 2:30am and the last part is rendering. About another hour and I shold be done.
Beta users: you’d better like that damn tutorial 😀