waiting for the server to come back online after it was turned off for the evening....
Had a beer with the boss and a few lads at work to discuss what was happening in the near future with the departure of my lead artist and stuff. Was all constructive stuff and I told him I had no intention of going anywhere, which he was really pleased about and said he'd be devastated if he ever lost me, so that was nice.
Finished some work for an american client and had an amusing email back "AWESOME. Thanks for your attention and skillful work." Note the cpas 'AWESOME', it made me chuckle, so very american. The job was a fucking coffee cup with some coffee in it. You get in one of those situations where you think 'I have to send a cursory reply but don't know what to say'. I went with the very British "No problem, happy to be a help ". I added a little smiley at the end of that, it took me a while to decide to add the smiley or not, I gambled and stuck it on. I do find americans amusing though, and when you send across first attempts at artwork they always give the full kiss-your-arse treatment before finally saying 'here's the fucking raft of changes we want'. I'm used to changes, you really don't need to give the full 'wow, you guys are amazing' guff prior to doing it. We used to have a very odd american client who would just go off on tangents of conversation on the phone, you'd be getting changes on a job (we did a new york state lottery ad once) and then off he goes telling you all about buses in america. You're obliged to sit there and listen to him ramble away while you really need to get on with changes. Curious bloke he was. Doing an electricty retouching job for a UK client and the blokes email address is 'daz', and he signs his mails off as 'daz' but I don't want to send a mail saying 'hello daz', sounds rubbish. but equally I can't conclude that his name is darren and he is shortening it in a cunty way as 'daz' might be his actualy name. I opted for 'hello there' and avoided the 'daz' thing altogether.
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