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The kids have discovered mobile games, namely a ball rolling game of balance, bouncing, puzzles, and fine motor control. It also sparks a daily wobbly for the ages, with rage, tears, gnashing of teeth, and hair pulling. God I love technology. Not that we don’t have a plethora of 2D Atari games that they have played and enjoyed before. Now their spare time is spent on the spare phone playing a bunch of free to play games, and avoiding ads, or unstoppable prompts to visit other websites. Such fun. Why couldn’t they like Tetris, or Mario Kart Racing… no accounting for taste.
Fingers, toes, arms and legs crossed for better weather tomorrow for our birthday party plans. Much of which revolve around being outdoors, and in the pool. Tie dye is awful messy to try inside. Same with art & crafts painting. We need at least a lull in the rain to be able to enjoy ourselves just a bit. I have some shopping to do for snacks, and drinks. I also need to wrap my daughters gifts. Bake a bunch of cupcakes, and decorate them too.
Was out having a drink or two last night, so I’m a bit slow going this morning. I had a late night RUSH request for first thing Monday morning, so when I got home I worked a few hours last night to get a jump on this fairly extensive ask. 4 posters, all 32×68″H, in need of touch ups to the products, background, models and lighting. I have the basis for my work blocked in, and now I’ll spend another 4-6 hours or more refining, tweaking, and cleaning up. Luckily one of the four posters was really just a background swap, and will take far less time to plan & execute than any of the others. Score!
I think that message came in before 11:00pm last night, so not the latest rush order I have ever had. That’s freelancing for you in a nut shell. You can have flexibility to do family life events, but also be prepared to get, and execute on new work after midnight and over weekends etc etc… which I don’t mind ultimately. If I can do school drop offs and pick ups and see my kids every day, I’ll take a few late nights, or weekends in my office/studio getting things done. Fair trade in my opinion.
So what is the new american dream? I think it’s coming up with some kind of popular grift that makes money by selling an idea, with very little substance, but not onerous enough to warrant legal action against. Take my course, buy my plan, come to my conference, learn this one simple thing, do you want to be a real estate investor? Things of that nature. No longer an invention or product, but the packaged sale of an ideal, or winning ideology. Very fascinating. Mostly empty platitudes and common sense wrapped up in tech guru verbiage and a vagueness to waved hands, or finger temples, charismatic speaking engagements. It’s wild y’all.
June is almost done, and yet another school year along with it. Crazy. 6 months of the year done too. Half way through. My numbers here are WAY done. I’ve done 25% roughly of last year’s all time numbers. I haven’t written any shorts that garnered consistent attention, so no surprise there. Big difference between 14-22 views a day, and the current 2-4, with a handful of zeros mixed in for good measure. The disconnection of JetPack/Wordpress and other external sites is a factor as well, but I think it’s my lack of creative writing that has placed my viewership in a nosedive. Better than previous years, without a doubt. But sadly lacking in comparison to my All-Star showing of 2022. No matter. This isn’t a vehicle to fame and fortune. It’s an outlet I needed during the height of the Pandemic, and it’s aftermath which is still ongoing.
Happy Saturday, you made it! Ciao Bella
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