Proposal Bits
Sep. 9th, 2004 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_tectonicFinished the proposal last night. Hooray! Back to normal now. It wasn't so terribly bad, but it was keeping me up at nights. Ha, literally!
(I was going to say that I can't pull all-nighters the way that I used to when I was in college, but, you know, I remember that I used to nod off in my early morning classes -- where by "early morning" I mean "9 a.m." -- so I'm thinking that I couldn't really handle not having enough sleep particularly well back then, either, I just was forced to put up with it more often.)
Nick came over to visit last night. He joined my Monkey for Kung Fu (albeit somewhat late), then came over to hang out with us. I didn't get to see him much, because I was proposalizing, but we had a little bit of "so what's up with you", which was nice. Sounds like things are trending upwards.
I had to get some information about spread rates and sizes of wildfires, and I looked online for a little while before I determined that there was no way I was going to extract numbers from it in less than a month. Fortunately, I live three blocks from a fire station, so I grabbed my clipboard and walked over there and found a very friendly firefighter who was able to tell me all about it. Hooray! He was interested in the project, too, which is always good. Plus he was kinda cute.
One of the requirements for the proposal was that, since I'm a "contractor", they needed a signed commitment letter from me. The submission process in entirely electronic, though, so actually they needed a scan of the letter. I don't have a scanner, but I have a digital camera. So I took a picture of it. Something about this makes me roll my eyes, but it worked.
(I was going to say that I can't pull all-nighters the way that I used to when I was in college, but, you know, I remember that I used to nod off in my early morning classes -- where by "early morning" I mean "9 a.m." -- so I'm thinking that I couldn't really handle not having enough sleep particularly well back then, either, I just was forced to put up with it more often.)
Nick came over to visit last night. He joined my Monkey for Kung Fu (albeit somewhat late), then came over to hang out with us. I didn't get to see him much, because I was proposalizing, but we had a little bit of "so what's up with you", which was nice. Sounds like things are trending upwards.
I had to get some information about spread rates and sizes of wildfires, and I looked online for a little while before I determined that there was no way I was going to extract numbers from it in less than a month. Fortunately, I live three blocks from a fire station, so I grabbed my clipboard and walked over there and found a very friendly firefighter who was able to tell me all about it. Hooray! He was interested in the project, too, which is always good. Plus he was kinda cute.
One of the requirements for the proposal was that, since I'm a "contractor", they needed a signed commitment letter from me. The submission process in entirely electronic, though, so actually they needed a scan of the letter. I don't have a scanner, but I have a digital camera. So I took a picture of it. Something about this makes me roll my eyes, but it worked.
Why the hell didn't you tell me?
Date: 2004-09-09 02:13 pm (UTC)-Kung Fu Monkey
Re: Why the hell didn't you tell me?
Date: 2004-09-09 02:52 pm (UTC)Re: Why the hell didn't you tell me?
Date: 2004-09-09 10:02 pm (UTC)Love,
Kung Fu Monkey
Re: Why the hell didn't you tell me?
Date: 2004-09-09 10:21 pm (UTC)Harumpf, I say. Harumpf!
(Love!)
no subject
Date: 2004-09-10 06:48 pm (UTC)Yay for Dr. Tec
Date: 2004-09-09 02:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-09 09:51 pm (UTC)rolling your eyes
Date: 2004-09-10 06:47 pm (UTC)Couple of hours later he IMs me saying no, actually, he needs the signed document today.
Many failed experiments later, I end up writing my name very large on a piece of paper in thick black marker, scanning it as a GIF, saving the last page of the review as PDF and converting that to a GIF, opening both GIFs in photoshop, pasting the scaled-down signature, saving the edited document as a new GIF and emailing it back to my boss, who prints it.
Gotta love modern technology.