I'm sitting around early this morning waiting for the garage door company to come and fix my garage door that broke yesterday. It's not actually the door that broke, but the mechanism that makes it go up and down. The motor runs, but the door doesn't move. So I'm hoping that it's not some major (expensive) thing that needs to be repaired. Haha, dream on...
Other than that, I have a mixed bag of stuff to do today. First off is the (expletive deleted) workplan. I am just not sure that I want to continue with this assignment. It's been almost a month since I first met with my client about it. Nothing happened for three weeks because they weren't ready. Then they called and asked me to come in last Friday for a meeting, which I did. They scheduled a follow-up meeting for last Monday, but when I got there, the people that I was supposed to meet with were off doing something else. So I came home. The client promised to reschedule that meeting, but I haven't heard from them. Another meeting, which was pre-scheduled as part of the meeting last Friday, is scheduled for tomorrow. I can do some preparatory work for this meeting, but I'm not sure it's actually worth it. In addition, I still don't have a contract. I know that they will get one to me eventually, but this whole affair is getting pretty tiresome. End of workplan rant.
So, I will just continue on with an assignment that I recently received from one of my best clients. They are doing an international proposal for DfID, which is the UK Department for International Development. As always, they send me pieces of their proposal for critical review and substantive editing. The I often end up putting the whole thing together for them. So today I have to review the RFP and start looking at the first two draft pieces they sent last night.
I am also waiting to receive an RFP and other information from the client that I worked with last week on the Iraq base operations bid. They said they would send it yesterday, but it hasn't arrived. I know they are very busy with a couple of other bids -- they had asked me to assist them with these, but I just didn't have the time. So perhaps they will send the info today or tomorrow, or whenever they get around to it.
I may also have a conference call with a former client who contacted me yesterday. I did a proposal for this client several years ago and haven't heard from them since. They sent me an e-mail, but didn't say what they wanted, except to talk with me. I need to e-mail them back and let them know whether to schedule the call for today or Monday. I haven't decided yet.
Finally, I have got to get around to updating my website. It's been about six weeks since my last update, so the time has come.
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