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Monday October 27th 2003 08:20 PM PST

it must be monday. I worked my ass off most of the day. At about 3:30 i had a client over to look at the work i had been doing. He spent about 30 minutes on the phone with his partner talking about how the work was good, but really need to be changed AGAIN. I had agreed to drive down to Palm Springs to install the new version of their software on the kiosk in a children's museum. As the client it leaving i ask him in a very informal way, if there is a delay on the check that should have arrived on the 15th of this month. He pauses at the door and then moves back into my living room and sits down on my couch. He explains that somehow they have paid me more than they expected and more than was originally in the scope of work. At this point i just smile and say "ok, no problem, i'll talk to you friday" I literally walk the guy out of my house. So here's how it is. I've been working for 3 months on a little project. The scope of work was laid out in July and everything has been going according to plan. Now they've decided to stop paying me after they've only paid 60% of the money. The really funny part is that i've done over 75% of the work AND i've done more and more little projects for them that were never in the scope of work. Well... it was really nice of them to tell me about this now on the 27th, when the last payment was due on the 15th. This is really why i never want to do contract work again. I'm sick of playing games. I've been spending the last few hours writing a little document that i'm going to have my legal council take a look at. I've done work that these guys owe me money for, and there is no way i'm just going to roll over without a fight. Well, the best part is that one of the little "side projects" that i did (with no pay i guess) is a website that collects comments from a group that they sent a mass mailing to. The comments are sent to their office so that they can collect the data and work with it. Well lets just say all the data is being recorded, but its not going anywhere near their email inbox. RULE #1: don't fuck with me! RULE #2: when you realize that I AM in control of your website, its usually a good idea to keep me me happy.