Argh panic panic

I’m nervous. I can’t sleep.

In a few hours my dad and I will visit a customer and present the findings of our first real consultancy work. If all goes well it will lead to several thousand pounds worth of sales and an ongoing contract. You know, almost as if this is real and I’m not just playing at it.

Getting this work will mean that we go from loss to break even, that we can not only pay our bills but also take out some of our expenses. Maybe even wages! All within our first year too. More than that, it also marks the transition from having time to waste to being too busy. We actually have several ongoing jobs at the moment and this week our advert and article go in Vale magazine. If we’re lucky then this week is where the business becomes reality.

Nervous? I’m bloody terrified!

A blog post!

This is my first blog post in a very long time. I used to be on Livejournal, now I have installed WordPress on my own website. To be honest, I probably won’t post much here either. Small thoughts go on Twitter. Other stuff goes on Facebook. Still, this is my new blog, full of my old blog posts, and maybe I will even add stuff to it.

Heres something interesting to get us going again. I’m an insomniac. I don’t often get to bed before 2am, and it’s frequently nearer 4am. I use the computer most of that time when I should be sleeping, and the bright monitor does nothing to help me get to bed. Three days ago I was shown a very useful tool, F.Lux which cleverly alters the colour temperature (not the brightness) of my display as night draws in. Colour temperature describes the relative brightness of the primary colours to each other. My monitor is normally set to a colour temperature of 6500K but with f.lux installed it is gradually changed over the course of an hour each evening to a temperature of 3400K. It’s early days, but sleep has been much easier and earlier for the last two nights so I am hopeful that it will continue to help.

f.lux can be downloaded from http://stereopsis.com/flux/