Katharine, I read your comment on your post – I do sort of make things holidays, don’t I? LOL Tireless is WAY off – I’m exhausted! – but I like to create party atmospheres.

And I’m looking right now for fireworks….

http://dianeparkin.blogspot.com/2009/05/writers-worth-day.html

Sorry it’s a Friday jobby, but better that than never, eh?

You may already know I’ve got several posts about this, and of course you know I’ve got the widget up because I helped write the code. Here’s my latest post. Kind of disorganized but since I’m now swamped that’s what you get. :o) I’ll have a post up tomorrow too!

And Debbie, let me know what the client says. I’m with you – diplomacy is needed sometimes, just as sometimes we need to tell them what they’d rather not hear.

Desiree, we do run that risk, don’t we? I just got off the phone with a man who thinks he knows better than I do how to put together his project. I’m certified in that area – he’s not. It’s clear he’s unhappy, but it’s not clear why. He’s working on some antiquated notions, which is ironic for someone so young, but he wants it his way and he shall get it. If he were my client directly, I’d tell him why his way may not serve him. Since I subcontract, I can’t do that. But I can tell the client, who can then deal with him.

One didn’t listen. He didn’t get the message because it was off his map that he could be doing the wrong things. But he has some form of social problem.

The other one got pissed off and told me I was kicking on someone already down. Maybe I was, but there were more people than her to consider, who felt bad about her behaviour. She didn’t speak to me for years.

A relative of mine got a truth told to her and she actually succeeded in doing something creative about it, so that can happen as well.