Alpha
Got some of the materials to make the red necklace and bracelet, The rest needs a trip to the other end of town. I think it will look pretty.
Alpha last night was interesting. My group (I can't believe I'm leading a group) has the newer
Alison Hawke
Hashtable, Vector, Plastic Penguin
Staring at the screen wondering what on earth to do with my Hashtable is not a productive way to code. Especially when I really need a Vector, not a Hashtable. Lots of tedious database code to write for Chronicle.
On the plus side, I'm programming a whole lot
Weather and Web Development
1:30 pm it started raining, which turned to sleet. It's still coming down. Yesterday it was warm enough to be outside in a t-shirt. Tomorrow it's supposed to be below freezing all day.
Applied for more jobs today, including a nice web development place down
Sale!
Went back to Chesterfield, this time my customer was there. She ordered a bracelet and asked me to price up a matching necklace, and the other woman with her asked for a rose quartz bracelet. Woohoo! I'm in business!
Now I have to go buy the parts and
Seeking my fortune
I got a fortune cookie last night that said:
All the troubles you have will pass away very quickly.
Nice if that was true. The job market can't stay bad forever though.
Stage Fright
I'm going to see a woman about a bracelet at 2.30 pm, and I'm nervous. This could be my first real jewellery sale, and she might have an address I could send my CV/resume to for her brother-in-law's company. Scary.
I have
Lawsuit
Apparently Hubby has been in a class action lawsuit and never even knew it. We got a check from Chase Manhattan for a whopping 86 cents. It must have cost them more than that to print and mail it. We still don't know what the lawsuit was actually
Doing the Impossible
I love this quote.
"Luckily," he went on, "you have come to exactly the right place with your interesting problem, for there is no such word as 'impossible' in my dictionary. In fact," he added, brandishing the abused book, "everything between 'herring&
Stickers
It's been a while since I put a blogsticker in here.
You know you've done a successful advertising campaign when it slips into common usage and starts appearing everywhere. The original ad was "Got Milk?" Now we have this:
ThinkGeek sells a t-shirt saying
Cooking
The Leaning Tower of Laundry has been reduced to a smallish pile of rubble, and there is fresh, handmade bread rising in the kitchen. Parcels arrived from Fiona and my parents, it's pouring with rain outside, and tonight is the Alpha course celebration dinner. Dana Engleman is cooking