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.
