I think I'd go with the black footbed. So, #2.

Yes, this. The black footbed also won't show the black imprint of your foot like the brown footbed will.

your consulting rate is XXX?

Vortex charges in porn, pass it on.

Do a longer soft-sell version of:

"I would be more than pleased to help you with that. My hourly rate is ___, with a ___ hour minimum. "

My instinct is not to attach any qualifications or resume/CV. They contacted you: if they want to know more about my feeling is they should ask. But people with more sales experience than I have can refine this.

If you are not sure it is something you want to do even for money, it could be more along the lines of:

"Can you tell me more about your problem? If I decide your problem is an appropriate one for me to help you with, my hourly rates is ______."

Yeah, me too. Which is why I am perplexed as to why I can't pull the trigger on one or the other

the one with the black footbed has two straps at the toe, whereas the one with the brown footbed has only one. I tend to go with a darker footbed because my sweaty feet always make shoes look dirty.

sj - some of us are still waiting for your Eddie Izzard report.

I'm sorry! I over did it walking around Providence that night, and then I completely spaced about posting. The show was great! Eddie Izzard had more energy than anyone I have ever seen. He kept jumping up and down on the stage like a little kid. He made fun of my tiny little home state quite a bit. He read a bunch of things to us from Wikipedia from his iPhone. He said, "You're going to go home and tell people that I read from my iPhone all night."

The disappointments of the night were that he was dressed very Doug Rich and not Dressed to Killl, and I got a little sick of the "God doesn't exist" thing he kept going back to all night. But that's mostly my own bias.

He mocked himself on the fact that the place wasn't sold out, and he kept jumping on this little metal thing at the front of the stage that he couldn't figure out what it was. I think it used to store electric outlets, but he would stop what he was doing in the middle of a sentence to go back and jump up and down on it some more. It was hysterical just trying to follow him from one subject to the other.

He talked for nearly 2 hours straight and then came out for a little encore minute or two. I was amazed that anyone could talk that fast for that long.

Oh, and at 9:40 he said that anyone that has a Neilson box should go home right away and turn on "The Riches". He then repeated that for the rest of the night every few minutes.

the one with the black footbed has two straps at the toe, whereas the one with the brown footbed has only one.

You're right! I can see the difference, now, though I couldn't before. And I like the straps of #1 better.

I am, as usual, no help at all.

Thanks sj! I'm looking forward to seeing how same/different it is when he gets here. I imagine there's tons he could make fun of Texas for.

So, the webcast didn't suck. May share a link in my LJ, though I think most people will find it overly medical and not vw enough. It was well-done, though, and I am pleased I was a part of it. They did end up ending with video of me talking, which was kind of cool. I watched it with my therapist. I brought snacks from Trader Joe's, and we munched on gourmet popcorn and chocolate covered blueberries throughout. It was kind of funny. She cheered every time I came on.

So, the group members still suck, though that probably doesn't surprise most people. Group leader has completely fallen off of the planet, and our prof suspects the same thing I do...he's fundamentalist and is offended by our critical remarks of fundamentalists. So, he's disappeared and may or may not return. Which means, someone has to pick up the slack of what he was supposed to present...which was the historical and contextual background. Kind of important. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr...

DJ, let me know if he does a very funny bit about Noah's Ark. I won't spoil it.

Ok! Can you wait until June? I mean, I can't, but can you?