Mother puss-bucket, I HATE sequels!!!
I feel like I haven't gotten anything important accomplished in the past several weeks. Even less so in the last week. What do I need to have done? I need to get shot 021 animated completely, shot 020 colorized, shot 021 colorized (once it's done), a dozen or so tweaks done, check all the SFX, export everything as .jpg sequences, and do a final render of the film. Meanwhile I'm struggling with my marriage, my health, and my potential career and at the same time I'm trying to get pumped up for an interview for an awesome job while I'm feeling really depressed.
I reiterate: mother puss-bucket!
I know I'm going to get through this. I know it. But somehow I keep feeling like I'm just spinning my wheels and going nowhere. I hate this. GAH!!!
By the way, the capper to all of this is what happened to my computer. I took a break from working to watch some television and relax, while leaving my computer on Sunday. I had set an alarm on it so I didn't sit on the couch too long, but realized after a while that the alarm had not gone off. I went into my office to find that the computer screens were blank. I thought, "huh, I thought I turned off the sleep function" and shook the mouse - nothing happened. So, I hit the power button to either shut down or reboot the system. Nothing happened.
This is when I really started to freak out.
After several minutes of frantic searching I discovered that the plug had been pulled out from the wall (the cats did this? I can only assume...). I plugged it back in and hit the power button. At this point I was horrified to find a DOS screen come up on my monitor asking to be directed to a boot drive or to insert a boot disk into the CD ROM. You don't want to know the language that came out of my mouth at that point - it was concentrated evil. In a panic I rebooted the machine and was greeted my the normal boot screen, but it immediately went back to the DOS screen. Try again. This time I hit F8 and found that both hard drives were still there, so I pointed it at the other drive and continued to boot into safe mode. It worked. Restart. Back to the DOS screen again. Reboot and point to the right drive. It works! Reboot. Back to DOS screen. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...!!!! Reboot to the Bios screen. Hmmmmmm.... only one hard drive showing up. That explains a lot. Panic starting to fade. Reboot, set the drive, finish booting and get back to work.
So, that's been my week. Oh, and I've got an interview for a job at Fisher Price AND got a call from a headhunter for another job at Fisher Price. I guess you have to take the good with the bad. Time to stress eat and get back to work. Stay tuned...
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