stress

My dad called last night and left a message. He is supposed to get the sign up for the gallery. He was supposed to have it weeks ago, but the guy who is making it is a liar. "Oh yeah, I've got it done. I just want to touch something up. I'll be there with it on Tuesday at 7:00." Turns out he didn't even have the base done, let alone the lettering. *Two weeks later* it was determined that he couldn't afford to buy gold leaf.

Anyway, dad is stressing about it way more than necessary. I know he's not happy that he has been open for almost two months and has no sign, and he's not happy about being lied to ALL THE FREAKING TIME, but come on. It's just a sign!

I'm supposed to help put it up today. His message last night was to tell me that he didn't know when he'd call me, because he couldn't trust the guy to show up when he says. He just kept going on about how this was all up in the air, and he didn't know when he'd call me to tell me to come over. So what?! I'm here at work. I can come over anytime he calls. It dosn't matter! And it's not like my dad has nothing to do while he's waiting for the guy. So who the hell cares if he comes at 10:00 or 3:00?

Why do people get so upset about this stuff?

blank wall

That sign sure does look nice. Gold leaf lettering on a glossy black background. Sure would be nice if it were on the building. I went over to help them put it up there. They ran into a couple of snags. First the bottom mounting brackets weren't going into the stud like they thought, and then they realized that they wouldn't be able to screw into the top of the top brackets because of an overhang above.

So there went an hour of my workday.

I don't know what kind of experience this guy has, ifany. He says, "installations never go as planned." I'm guessing this guy has only done six of them, and they went badly because he doesn't know what the hell he's doing. My dad seems to be doing most of the work.

sign up now!

The sign is up. It looks good. I'm sure my dad will be happy never to see that guy again. He didn't do much of anything to get it up.

I can't wait to hear the whole story.

new community

Did you catch my "long night" entry about my troubles on tuesday night? I moved it.

I felt I need to complain about it, but I also didn't feel that my friends really wanted to hear it. a couple of hours later, I happened upon a community called argh. It is just for people who need to vent. Nobody posted there in over a month, but who cares?

a few communities I found

boredatwork
goodbandnames
ques_of_the_day
wordimerific