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A few quick revisions...
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A long day at work, home, onto the computer and my email box is full.
"A few quick revisions". Web stuff, which I've been trying to leave somewhat behind, put on a back burner while I'm doing the restaurant gig, but I'm not having any luck. There's always "more work" coming down the pipe.
Never enough that I could leave off the restaurant completely, but enough to ensure that I never, ever have a free moment to gather my thoughts.
Never.
These people, they don't know what quick is, they hope it's quick and it's all quick when your not doing it yourself, I've a mind to send them my own list of quick revisions, "World Peace", "Stop World Hunger", "Clean up the Gulf of Mexico"... I mean, it's easy enough to ask for, it SHOULD therefore be easy enough to do...
And as email after email slowly downloads into my inbox I wonder how I was unclear when I said I didn't want to do this anymore, how being "a sport" somehow got me embroiled in this....There are the "Urgent" emails, those flagged with the little "!" exclamation mark to say "Do me right away", and you do and you forward the client the notes and wait for the response. A week, maybe 2 later, another email marked "Urgent" will appear.
"A few quick revisions.." it will begin.
Number Stations
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A couple of interesting articles on "Numbers Stations", short-wave radio stations that broadcast strings of numbers, presumably to be decoded by spies in the field.
Link: NPR - 2010 & NPR 2000
10 days and counting
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10 days of work left, and the countdown begins.
But really, who's counting?
Then 3 weeks of too-brief vacation, (too brief for the many things I'd like to get done, plans, too short...), and then back at work - 1st week back, see dentist. 2nd week give notice. This delaying on the notice, it's a precaution to ensure I've had my teeth somewhat repaired because there is always the possibility that "giving notice" will be synonymous with "Instant Dismissal". This takes me to the middle of September. Whether I'm moved or not remains to be seen, but hopefully I'll be free to look for work that offers a little more life satisfaction.
Yesterday passed like molasses, no great urges to write or move forward projects, after the morning nap sat about and finished reading "Arabian Sands" by Wilfred Thesiger, his journal of exploration in the 1940's of the great deserts in Saudi Arabia and travel with the Bedouin tribesmen. A good read, only written some 60 years ago, yet what a different world...
And that's it. There's a list of ten thousand things that need be done before I go away, none of which I have begun (let alone completed), plans hang in the air, there's only 10 working days until summer vacation (but who's counting?)
10:45 Sunday, July 18-10
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Up since 6:30 AM. Work on outstanding web projects, get requested revisions done, email to client. A trip to the flea market, nothing today (few vendors, mostly deserted), to Higher Ground for coffee (and you sit and watch the people on the street, only it's 8:30 AM on a Sunday and there are no people on the street), bus to Bowness WIN thrift shop, no finds whatsoever this morning, then while waiting for a bus home I succumb to temptation and follow some garage sale signs into the depths of Bowness and turn up a vintage (antique?) mother-of-pearl "Folk Art" accordion, $40.00. Which I buy, because should I choose to stay with this waitering thing (I don't, I won't..), it will be an invaluable accompaniment. It would be if I were to remain a waiter, but I'm pretty sure it's time to try something a little more 9-5.
Stopped as well at the health food store, picked up some Resveratrol (?), which, paired with red wine (natural source resveratrol...) is now helping to dampen the cups of coffee that launched my morning. Now to make some notes and hopefully nap - the rest of the day? The new film w/ Leonardo De Caprio - Inception, or perhaps there's another, I'll check...
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