smonster, that is a BRILLIANT idea.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Buffista Business Talk: I wanted simple, I wanted in-and-out, I wanted easy money.
A virtual watercooler where Buffistas in business can talk, share, exchange, bemoan, exult and assorted other power verbs associated with all areas of running/starting up a business. For existing or potential Buffista business owners of all types. Spamming is NOT ON. A list of our Buffista owned businesses is on our links page.
Atropa - Aug 26, 2011 12:03:22 pm PDT #374 of 1422
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
smonster - Aug 26, 2011 12:05:03 pm PDT #375 of 1422
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Thanks for the link, Ginger!
smonster - Aug 26, 2011 12:06:32 pm PDT #376 of 1422
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I can't believe no one's tried it yet, it makes so much sense. I should check and see if someone has.
beekaytee - Aug 26, 2011 4:25:11 pm PDT #377 of 1422
Compassionately intolerant
I love the idea of using a sheltered workshop for the assembly.
Back in my non-profit days, I used workshops for all our envelope stuffing and folding needs. Virtuous and expeditious.
beekaytee - Aug 26, 2011 4:26:28 pm PDT #378 of 1422
Compassionately intolerant
And...what a genius way to introduce local recycling. Seriously, find something the locals are interested in and give them a reason to invest in something worthwhile.
Truly a stroke of brilliance, smonster.
Pix - Aug 26, 2011 8:33:45 pm PDT #379 of 1422
The status is NOT quo.
Great idea, smonster! I actually have some old, authentic glass Mardi Gras beads, and I love them.
beekaytee - Aug 29, 2011 1:11:30 pm PDT #380 of 1422
Compassionately intolerant
I haven't written a press release in ages and, given that I want to distribute this document to press, blogs, social media and radio what I have is not a traditional release.
I would be grateful for as many eyes as I can get on it before rolling out my new website, services and partnership next week.
If you have a minute, please find the doc here and comment to my profile addy or in-thread.
Many, many thanks!
Jesse - Aug 29, 2011 1:16:57 pm PDT #381 of 1422
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have a question about tracking time on a project. I charge by the hour, and often work in tiny spurts, and it's occured to me that maybe keeping a post-it note with "30 min/1 hour/etc" scribbled on it, which I then throw away when I invoice, isn't the best way.
Should I be keeping (and keeping) a spreadsheet or something?
amych - Aug 29, 2011 1:50:54 pm PDT #382 of 1422
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I use toggl.com for my tiny spurts -- it lets you click a big red button (I admit, the big red button is a HUGE part of my love) when you start and stop on a particular task, and aggregates the total time you've spent in a week or month or whatever you need. There's a paid account that lets you handle multi-person tasks and sub-projects and billable vs non-billable hours and all kinds of officially project-management-ish things, but all I really need is "I was working on project A for 14 minutes, then project B for 2h23..." Especially when the 2h23 was actually made up of 5 separate little chunks, because it always is.
I like it that it's a web app (with an iphone app), so I don't worry about which computer is the spreadsheet on; the phone app also works offline and sync up when you get back online, for those times I'm actually not at a computer or don't have internets.
beekaytee - Aug 30, 2011 8:11:52 am PDT #383 of 1422
Compassionately intolerant
No takers for the opportunity to tear up my press release?
I feel like I make requests at the exact wrong time and then they get lost in the shuffle.
If anyone does have a moment, I would be grateful.
I just got a terrific photo to go along with the release and am feeling quite chipper about it!