another diversion comes my way
had to take dd to new london to see a lawyer, so I am sitting outside of Panera, and just got the go home call, she is set for a ride home later. I hope. So I am going to put this away and head back home. I have the caterer to finish tonight. need to get him out the door this week.
time out
to pick up daughter, and to “watch” apple event.
zoom zoom
back on schedule. First off is the proposal for the union local. let’s see how this goes.
too much time spent in traffic today
seems that the town or state has decided to repave part of rt. 2. and of course, they don’t bother doing iti at night, or during non-peak hours. they do it at “rush” hour, which is getting worse here anyway. spent alot of time sitting in it today, and not liking it.
so anyway. I am making slow progress on the caterer site, the diva wants the new design, so I have to bring in her old crap to it. Gotta get going on the hog site. this weekend a big push on that one. I have to do a proposal first thing in the AM for a writer. a rush job of course. and good ole realtor is finally maybe wanting me to get her a new design, slim hers down to be lean and mean. so it looks like I have some work on here. hope it continues to trickle on in. god only knows what is happening to this damned economy. maybe if we were not spending billions on a war, we’d find a way to get out of this and not burden our children with this ferocious deb that is going to happen. and what is sad is that it is not going to stem the recession tat has been going on for almost a year. it will be now at least another year, maybe more before we can breathe a tiny bit easier.
life however, goes on.
giving and getting
You know, when my good friend Cheryl gave me a gift certificate to Kiva for christmas, I used it and felt good about it. But I did not make a second loan for a number of months. Then I did one. And another one. I joined a “team” and I have made I think 4 more. 8 total now. It helps that Kiva decided to funnel money right back to loaners to be loaned out again. It’s like having a buck in your pocket when you were young. It burns a hole into it. I just did 2 loans a few minutes ago.
What is stranger though is the law of giving and getting. Since I have made a more conscious effort to give, I seem to have been getting. Jobs. higher ticket jobs. yeah, me asking for more money for them has a bit to do with it. but I really think that I am being paid back for taking what little I have and giving it to someone who’s life will be made better by the loan. maybe their children will have a better chance of making it.
I now know what I am giving to my kids for christmas presents.
drama drama go away
So…. I arrive back home. Wonderful to be home, dog missed me alot. Lauren says hi and I notice a ton of bruises all over her arms. Then she tells me, John beat the crap out of her Tuesday morn. He then sliced himself after she took off, called the cops and had her arrested for cutting him, and he was also arrested for strangulation, seems he just about killed her. I know that she also beat on him, she is like that, but I cannot believe that she would cut him. But when she is drunk, you never know. I think she had just gotten out of work, so she may not have been drinking, but it sure does sound like one of her tirades. She missed one night of work, her boss is cool on it. Her probation officer may not be so cool. She may get violated and sent to jail. John is still in jail, no money to bail himself out, and no one to do it for him.
wonderful days ahead for her.
That is all I am going to put down now, I am going to have her deal with everything, I’ll be available for hugs, but nothing more, no advice, no money, no driving here and there. My car is no longer registered due to stupidity on my part, and Mike’s lack of wanting to fix the car to pass inspection. So now he has to take me everywhere until I can afford to buy another car.
and with that, I have to get back to work here. This nice Macbook is so sweet.
Flickr
This is a test post from 
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I got them old post bday blues again
nah. not really. I could care less right about now. I am focused on getting these damned concepts done and then coded into the templates. the client has not gotten mt the list of pages that they want. this is hurting. I just want to go to Colorado, find a job, sell my house and live in the mountains. I’ll be a happier person.
oh well.
that in-between time
these two weeks in the summer, they still have that wonderfulness. the time from when school ended and the 4th. it was a time that you did NOT A THING. stayed up late, ran around in the yard. just nothing. I still love it. the days are the longest, and there is no imminent thing that has to be done. I sat outside for a bit, and now I am going to go make myself another drink and go back outside. just to sit. maybe bring the ipod out too. yeah, just a lazy hot night. gotta love it
100th follower, and boy, what a follower!
Yesterday (?) I posted that I wanted to hit 100 followers, mainly so that I could possibly follow back and glean info from their tweets. Glean and assimilate. I have one snotty person tweet that I was offering an “award” for the 100th, and that it is better for quality not quantity. jerkass, I guess he did not read what I offering for a REWARD. I said the 100th would get a $25 gift certificate to Kiva.org, and they would match it with their own $25 donation.
So, my 100th follower was Mark Grimes. Founder of Ned.com I was truly impressed. He matched it of course. When I have another $25, I will go and also loan to one of the ones he supported.
http://www.ned.com/user/u513094538/
He has kicked something in me. Now I have plans for some more giving things. So keep your ear on Twitter for them.
Actually it’s core has been being kicked the past few weeks. I don’t know what it is. Might be the economy. might be the things going on with parents. so many things have “come” to me in the way of words (wish it was money but hey!) over the past few weeks, it feels like an avalanche. Sunday I was listening to a few podcasts from accidentalcreative.com and some things just resonated. then yesterday was the “release” of a manifesto: a brief guide to world domination I read it in bed last night. It along with inspiration from a few other bloggers and social media bloggers, have opened a door in my brain. I have three blog posts almost done, for the BS blog. I am wondering if I should also restart my kidoimages design blog and post there web desing stuff, for end users, not like how BS is for web designers.
So, the road that I am taking in the next few months, it may have a few forks in it that I can’t see right now. But I am pretty damned sure that the changes have started.
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