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matthijs wrote:Didn't know the time zone differences span 3 days. We still have to work a couple of days ...
(you so badly wanted to be the first, isn't it?)
I made it, the entire year, without having to draw off a single credit card. I'm working towards the day, perhaps in Q1 2010, when I can call into that AM radio show and scream, "WE'RE DEBT FREE!!!!!!"
Under the tree, my son has some skateboards, an electric guitar, and an amp. My daughter, a keyboard and the latest ipod.
And I've never had to build any adult entertainment websites (and never have and never will). Thus, no extortion letters sent to my wife's employment! Yay!
My thanks goes out to Nathan Malone, Eduardo Vivas, and Evan Baker. Each of them are angels who saw me down and out a year ago and either got me to realize how to do this business, or gave me a contract and said they believed in me. Nathan taught me to shut down the voices in my head saying I couldn't do this, and helped me set my rates and my advertising. Eduardo and Evan flew me out to Chicago, met me in a limo, put me up for a week in a room costing $440 a night, and gave me my first stable contract until I found more stable footing. Even though Eduardo and Evan sadly split off from me because I realized I wasn't the best fit for their difficult needs, I am still very grateful to them. And through the year, I realized what works for me, and what doesn't.
Many thanks also goes out to the regulars here on Devnet and Stack Overflow, and especially to the demigod, John Resig, the founder of jQuery, and Mike Alsup, the maker of some great jQuery plugins. I also want to thank Ruck of CashTactics.net and the forum regulars of WickedFire. And I can't thank enough all the developers who work constantly on Mozilla Firefox, Ubuntu Linux, Apache 2, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and PHP.
And I don't just thank you -- my wife and children thank you too. Because without all of this help, I would be back on a plane, flying around as a consultant, living out of my suitcase and motels, missing my family and children, my health steadily declining from being overworked. And now, would have probably been confronted with a layoff. This year, my wife and children saw more of me than they had seen in the last 12 years.
Whoa Mike...that sounded like an Emmy awards acceptance speech.
At least now, you know that if for whatever reason you no longer wish to write PHP applications, you have a solid career in Ghost writing for actors. Haha.
Just teasing, I'm glad to hear of your prosperity and successes in life, now how about sharing some of those secrets with the less fortunate...namely me
The first time I visited a client I paid for my own airfare and was put up in the cheapest hotel I could find on Hotels.com.
Honestly...it was one of my proudest moments...and sure beat pumping gas at minus 40 C
Apparently in Aussieland they have Xmas BBQ's and traditional Pig Roasts and go down to the beach and play in the water...this is what I've been told anyways.
Meh...Santa/Satan (weird never noticed that before --- both red too) lives only about 1200 KM North of me and Winnipeg is one of the first places he's vectored too after takeoff.
I watch that friggen guy like a Hawk on that Norad radar...