the last week, yesterday

they've both sucked. nothing has really gone right, work, personal life, and everything in between.

after seven months in the black, the company i report to each morning will take a serious plunge into the red next month. in the online gaming world, the various software solutions are more or less commodities. software is widely shared and even when a company uses their own propreitary solution, it's only marginally different -- whether better or worse.

as it turns out, a company using an almost identical software solution to us has decided to discount the product so severely that we are now guaranteed to lose money. essentially, for every dollar we now take in, we will now be giving away $1.10. that's not good. also not good for me. it means less flexibility and more micro-management. that combination ruins everything.

but all that was just prelude to yesterday. for the second straight day (today is #3, yippee!!) i've tried to diagnose why my rails application won't work with the newly released update of the language. whether you know what rails is or not matters not at all. what you need to know is i've made no progress whatsoever. 11 hours yesterday, and the only action was me stomping my feet and banging my fist against the desk. oh, and some expletive-laden rants that surely made the custodial staff think i'd acquired tourette's. and then to top it all of, i wasted another four hours at my second job by dumping a nickel at the poker table to a bunch of chumps. needless to say, i went to sleep in a foul mood.

so summary. work sucks. personal life sucks. second job playing cards sucks. web startup project sucks. and the coffee machine at work -- the one that was supposed to kick my day off right after i ate the $10 parking fee so i could make a special trip to buy the best beans in sf (blue bottle ) but spit out something that would be mistaken for tea by the naked eye -- yes, you guessed it, sucks.

can you say tequila shots later?