Well, I figured utility bills might go under "tax related" since I do use part of that as my home office deduction, I think. (I vaguely remember, from doing my taxes this year...)
So is a year sufficient, for other things, then?
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meara - Oct 26, 2011 6:40:59 pm PDT #730 of 1416
Ginger - Oct 26, 2011 6:50:04 pm PDT #731 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
So is a year sufficient, for other things, then?
As I understand it, except for evidence that you paid off a major purchase.
I need to consolidate years of random filing. I'll put it on the list.
Typo Boy - Oct 28, 2011 8:20:35 am PDT #732 of 1416
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Who does layout, especially graphics intensive layout?
Ginger - Oct 28, 2011 8:28:33 am PDT #733 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I do some, TB, but I don't have the latest software.
Typo Boy - Oct 28, 2011 8:34:20 am PDT #734 of 1416
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I'm finding PagePLus pretty good. Got it for 20 bucks with free shipping, but it is 30 plus shipping on Amazon and I expect the 20 buck price will come around again. For that matter what I need can be handled by old software if it is decent.
Strix - Nov 12, 2011 7:05:03 am PST #735 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
So, monthly check!
How's everyone doing? Successes? New ideas or projects? Frustrations? Plans of action for the end of the year?
I took a week off to go to a Thing out of town, and while I don't regret it (I had a great time with friends, and I hadn't had a vacation type thing in YEARS) it did really take some time to recover from mentally, and I got behind on some gigs. I'm taking away a couple of things from it: one, notifying my clients that I would be away and getting a modified time schedule permission from them was the right move, and two, I have to plan for recovery-time better if I am able to go on vaca ever again!
Successes: I am getting dribs and drabs of work, because I am still catching up from said vaca. BUT, as most of you know, I got a freelance copy editor position at Carina Press, which promises to be a steady stream of work, and also? is the direction I REALLY want to move towards -- working with authors and publishers.
I've gotten positive feedback on the resumes and copywriting I've done for clients since the last check-in, and I'm very happy about that!
Frustrations: I still haven't gotten my contract and all the beginning paperwork, or started a first gig for CPress, even though the editor said she would get them to me this week. She's hugely busy and has been traveling a LOT, so I get it...but I haven't been drumming for other FL jobs hard, so I could have plenty of time to really start working on copyediting for CP, and our money situation is CRITICAL.
We'll get by, and it'll be ok, but with the holidays coming up, in addition to our regular staggering load of regular expenses (and believe me, we aren't just cutting corners, we're cutting off half the whole damned box to get by), but right now, it's stressful.
Also frustrating: even though I am having a little free time, since I've only got a couple of small gigs to work on, I'm not updating/tweaking my website Like I need and want to, or blogging regularly. I am going to be working on that today, though.
Plans: I've been wanting to for a while, and I watched a great webinar this week on utilizing video blogs to enhance your marketing and your presence on the web. So I am going to be playing with Movie Maker and trying to add to skills so that I can add vids to my website. I'm kind of excited about that, since I think people respond really well to attaching a face and a voice to a person, and also, I have tons of skills in public speaking and a decently engaging presence from teaching.
That's where I'm at right now; kind of been in a holding pattern, and ready to break out of it, and get some impetus going.
How's everyone else doing?!
flea - Nov 12, 2011 9:20:31 am PST #736 of 1416
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Remember I asked about how much to charge the academic woman? I proposed $30 an hour and she took it. So far she's paid me $210. Not too bad, for a not-actually-a-business.
Strix - Nov 12, 2011 9:59:03 am PST #737 of 1416
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Awesome, flea! Good for you.
Ginger - Nov 13, 2011 4:07:34 pm PST #738 of 1416
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Some of you may be entertained to learn that I just found a roll of border tape in the bottom of a drawer. Is it an antique yet?
amych - Nov 13, 2011 5:07:31 pm PST #739 of 1416
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
It's not so much that it's an antique - it's just still stuck to everything.
In other print layout news, please talk me down from clienticide: I've got one insisting that such and such an image be exactly the height of the first two paragraphs on a web page, and I've explained multiple times now that I can get it to look closer, but the moment they get a visitor with a different installed font stack, or a really weird-sized monitor, or an iPad, or they've resized their browser defaults or... Yeah. We can do closer, but we can't guarantee it, and doing too much to force it would actually be wrong.
Web. Not actually the same as print, nor should it be.