Amazing
Posted: 11 September 2004 at 03:18:55
Wow, it’s officially 9/11 and it’s been three years since 9/11/01. I’ll never forget that day.
Liquid Joe’s
I just got back from Liquid Joes where Sons Of Nothing performed tonight.
The show went pretty well. The crowd was smaller than the last time we played there. Not sure why. But, the crowd was certainly liking the music.
Just about everyone was in a bad mood before the show. I think the Darrington show had everyone a little spoiled and going back to play a small venue in your hometown was underwhelming. But, the band put on a good performance.
An amazing week
A week ago, I was feeling ready to throw in the towel on running my own business. The last couple of months have been frustrating because business has been down and Christine and I have been barely scraping by financially.
I’ve been sending out a lot of resumés but have not received any calls about interviews.
This week, suddenly Iodynamics is getting tons of calls and work.
Earlier in the week, a guy called me because he had been looking at the Utah ISP List to get a listing of local ISPs to contact about his company’s product. He contacted me because he figured we’d be a good company to know how to work with ISPs.
We’ve had two meetings with the company and have another one scheduled on Monday morning. The possibilities for partnership projects are pretty good.
Then, later this week, a guy sent me an instant message asking me if I did web design. I said yeah. He said he found me through my dad’s website and needed some work done on his website.
I met with him the next day and he’s waiting for a proposal from us and seems pretty cool about working with us.
Today, I was running some errands and business calls when my phone rang. The caller ID said “Unavailable Number” and I usually don’t answer those calls. They’re usually telemarketers.
“Hello?” I said.
“Is this Iodynamics?”
“Yes, it is.”
“Do you do consulting?” the gentleman asked.
“Yes, we do.”
“Do you have anyone who knows about Apache and mod_perl version 2?”
After picking my jaw up off the floor I said, “That’s our bread and butter.”
This guy had kind of an emergency. His company’s server was having problems slowing to a crawl after running for a while. Doing a restart fixed things, but only temporarily. I didn’t really think I had time to go to his office today, but he was desperate. I went up and we investigated. I helped a couple of guys comb through the code and find a section that could cause some problems. They’re going to rewrite that and see if it helps.
So, suddenly, a frightening amount of potential new work.