If I hadn't rounded it out with the furniture and tools the redneck neighbors left, there would've been maybe a bag of clothes, and a few boxes of random household things.... While I needed to go through the house and clean out old things anyway, I have to say that perhaps the $38.25 I made was not quite worth the extreme lack of sleep it took to get everything organized.... I've been trying to keep the new place in mind, and focus on the good things it has: a bathtub, a dishwasher, a fireplace, a garbage disposal, air conditioning, more space, more storage, a private garage, a kitchen big enough for more than one person, a pool and hot tub nearby.
Read Morean inauspicious start
The results of this morning's attempt to make my own latté. Why on earth espresso machines are so complicated to operate when you're undercaffeinated, I'll never know. Let's hope things improve today, shall we?
Read Morevirtual bubble wrap
This: is what I've been playing with this afternoon. Yep, I'm stressed. A bunch of work hit my desk this morning, and at home, I need to start moving preparation in earnest.
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I've been working on ideas for a presentation that would explain what my department actually does to the other departments in our division.... See, my department is where all the random things that didn't fit anywhere else got lumped together, making it extremely difficult to think of one cohesive thing that bonds us all together.... But how do you come up with a way to explain the wildly different things we do?
Read Moresurfacing for a bit
She, of course, is much more accomplished than I am, so it's easier to see what's going on. Blue Ridge is making some kickass oil paints, which I plan to order as soon as I get paid. I got to use some of the vermilion they make a couple of weeks ago, and it's just awesome.... They're making a blue-black, which is tough to find, and a vital part of the Zorn palette (well, when you only have four colors in the palette, all of them are arguably vital).
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