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12
Jan
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11
Jan
I’ve been adding a lot more freelance gig-getting websites to my blogroll. It’s been a slow time for short-term freelance assignments. One of my long-term clients has been giving me small assignments, editing video, photos, and website administration. I’ve been able to do most of the work on my iPad (first generation, no 3g)–I can’t tell you how much of a relief it is to be able to pick up the iOS tablet and wander around the house, sitting on varied surfaces besides my computer chair, or going to wherever there’s another pocket of WIFI, at the watering hole nearby or the grocery store when I want a change of scenery.
If it were not for the car repairs I’m saving up for, I would have totally purchased the second generation 3g iPad 2, to be truly untethered by location and to be able to do even more with the onboard cameras on the device. I even had the tablet in my shopping cart the other night, shipping calculated, and personal information shared, all ready to hit the “buy” button. Practicality prevailed, for now. The cost is just too much. Heck, I got this iPad 1 on deep discount through one of those one-deal-a-day websites. I’ve been scouring Craigslist for any iPad 2, only to find that any individual selling theirs wants the same unreasonable rate. I’ll wait.
There are more photos and videos to be edited for my longest-held client. I’m also spending the week recoding a website for a local food business who wanted more social interactivity along with their updated menu, hours, and other info. I’ll probably volunteer to do some webwork for a nonprofit, just to give myself something to do.
I asked my husband about a hair-brained idea I’d thought up the other day, and he gave his assent, so I’m poking at it. I’m starting a new business venture, designing the website for it, and getting a framework of electronica built up to assist me. He and I have been sharing a phone ever since we met; that’ll change when my new Android phone arrives, wherein I can receive professional queries and assignments on my own line. Again, found a great deal on a phone I couldn’t pass up. I required my husband’s input on the business idea, because it will involve relocation, and I asked him how badly he wanted that. He’s quite open to the idea, and it won’t cost us much to try, so I’m going for it. I’m going to see if I can set up some temporary employment for both of us while we get resettled. I found that he and I really do want to relocate to my former hometown, even if it is not through the means we thought we would have been, when an opportunity came up a year ago that we’ve been chomping at the bit to see realized since. And that’s a very clunky sentence, I apologize, it’s the middle of the night.
I purchased some fabric for a nifty sewing project in mid-November, though by the time the fabric arrived in the middle of December, I was deep in retail employment and couldn’t find the time to attack the project before the winter holiday arrived. With things as slow as they are, I don’t see a problem with getting started on that project as well, though I need to purchase more fabric, as I’d well-underestimated how much I’d need for the items I want to make.
I will someday learn how to work this sewing machine–haha, yet another project on my wild array of burners.
The cat has interjected himself on my lap, and I can’t think of anything else that’s come up that I feel like updating about, so I will now tend to him. And brainfart today’s goings-on.
05
Jan
This sounds interesting. One of my favorite things to do with code is to be as minimal as I can. A friend once remarked that I don’t necessarily code out of a box, but I’m able to make use of every square inch of known parameters, and come up with something that is clever, and minimalist. Not necessarily “their” box, mind, but my own box. I’m good at coming up with stuff way out of the ozone that the supervising entity had never thought of.
I think I’d like to play with this. Whee!
14
Nov
I’m coding a fourth iOS app based on a brainfart I had the other night, regarding the local transit system and the open source API they have. It’s a little confusing to work with but I’m enjoying the exercise in getting to learn it a little more intimately.
I’m also redesigning one of my podcast websites. My roommate recently purchased a 52″ plasma TV (gotta love those spontaneous impulse buys, hehe) and I got to view my website on a very large screen, and decided I’d figure out a design that incorporates that along with everything else. Oh yeah, and I podcast too. :)
When I’m not coding, redesigning, or nanoing, I like to volunteer. I’m tackling a project I was approved for yesterday, helping translate a book’s worth of text into English from Spanish. They’re using an online translator and I’m editing up the text to make it more readable to a native speaker. I never thought my three years of high school Spanish would come in handy, but here we are. :) I’m being shadowed by a bilingual editor who will look for technical errors, but their focus is readability for native American English, and aforementioned editor didn’t want to have to clean up the text as well as edit, so, there I am.
I have a retail job lined up for December, 1) because I rocked the position so hard last year and was asked/begged to return, lol, 2) because extra spending money for the holidays is never a bad thing, and 3) just around the time that I start getting annoyed that I have to stand for 8-9 hours a day, it’s time for me to go work from home again. I enjoy interacting with the public very much, this unusual seasonal position isn’t very difficult, and I get to manage myself for the most part. There was one woman from another department who tried to micromanage me, she’s not there now and I daresay that those directly in charge of me know that I know what I’m doing.
One assistant manager even told me to knock down my output a little, there were way too many finished products as it was. *laughs* My philosophy is that people can’t buy your stuff if your stuff isn’t on display. (My product involved fresh fruit.) I’d rather have a few overripe bananas than for someone to feel that there wasn’t enough choice. Bananas are literally cents. The cheapest product was around $20. You do the math.
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09
Oct
I saw that my local public transit system had announced a contest for app development. The applicant has four months in which to develop an open source app for any common device (iPhone, Android, mobile-ly accessible website, and more), and submit the source code to a publicly open source code repository. The purpose of the app is to appeal to visitors and tourists to the area, and encourage use of the transit system.
HMMMM, I say. My brain’s already working on a mash-up between Google Maps, opinion websites like Yelp, and what sorts of destinations might be of interest to visitors.