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23 June 2006

Yay Friday! With a lighting budget of $95,500, I came in at $84,072! My client will be so happy.

post by: Specklet at: 11:02 | 15 comments

Goodie! At first I wondered why lightening was expensive. Did you pick some groovy ones?

posted by chewatadistance 23 June | 11:05

Too bad you don't live in NYC, speck. Tennessee Sam (far right) runs a lighting shop. Something tells me you two would get along.

posted by jonmc 23 June | 11:09

Demo in less than an hour and we're still running around checking in code.

posted by matildaben 23 June | 11:09

Oh, and:

Yoooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu liiiiiiiiiight up my liiiiiiiiiife...

posted by matildaben 23 June | 11:11

That's because you rock like a Rolling Stone, Specklet!

Nice work!

posted by Joe Famous 23 June | 11:20

*pats self on back some more*

Sadly, chewey, it was a "budget-sensitive" project, and I was going for quantity/not butt-ugly. Nothing exciting.

posted by Specklet 23 June | 11:28

Yay Specklet!

PS. Sorry if I haven't gotten your texts over the last 24 hours. I switched mobile providers and they fucked everything up

posted by cmonkey 23 June | 11:56

No worries, I can't remember what I've been sending, if anything. Stupid mobile companies. Are you able to text now?

posted by Specklet 23 June | 12:38

I'm not sure. I sent one to someone who got it an hour later, and I sent you one a half hour ago, but I don't seem to be getting any when they're sent to me. But I can make and recieve phone calls. It's very strange and I'm not looking forward to trying to explain it to their customer support.

posted by cmonkey 23 June | 12:49

Okay, I just tried sending you one. If it doesn't work, call me later.

posted by Specklet 23 June | 13:18

I just sent you one too for the hell of it, cmonkey

posted by matildaben 23 June | 13:47

This phone really sucks. It doesn't tell me who text messages are from, so it's next to useless. But I am getting them now!

posted by cmonkey 23 June | 14:00

Cmonkey, I had this self-same problem a few weeks ago.

They had to "rebuild" my account by taking the SMS service off and the adding it again. That worked. Now I occasionally have the problem where I can receive but not send, but I can cure it by turning the phone off and on.

This was Cingular, by the way.

posted by mudpuppie 23 June | 14:18

Update: After 50 minutes on the phone, the tech support guy finally said "Just return the phone". So, you know what, Nextel, fuck you. I won't have a working phone during my move, and that kinda pisses me off.

posted by cmonkey 23 June | 17:11

That's awful, cmonkey.

Good going, Specklet!

posted by halonine 23 June | 18:09

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