I just switched plans w/Cingular, so instead of paying $1 the first time on any day I use the phone + $0.10/minute, I have like 300 anytime minutes, 1000 night/weekends, and $0.10/message texting.
See, I'm expecting (and getting) a lot more calls. It helps to pretend one has a job... actually, I do have a job: Finding people who will give me rectangular, green slips of paper in exchange for things I can do very well. ;)
And it may seem that I'm fucking off here at Cafe Coco, but really, I'm not. I just had another call from Jeremy's mama (the 15 year old kid who was trying to figure out which bus to take to get to 100 Oaks for his NA meeting, 'cause his sponsor had failed to show up to give him a ride... y'all heard this one, right?). She wants to meet with me to ascertain "how real" I am (i.e. not an addict, looking to bugger her son, I suppose... hey, can't blame her). Jeremy was apparently very excited at the prospects of learning how to use ACID Pro to chop up loops, and make some rap recordings on his home 'puter... and you-know-who told him who could teach him, at a reasonable rate, right? ;)
UPDATE: In meatspace, I've brought 40+ old HCA business cards (see photo at right) each of the past three days to Cafe Coco, and left each day with... zero. Today, I got to havin' a beer with the new artist showing her works here, and she'll be the third "spec" site I'm going to set up on Blogger (cheap, fast, easy... and hey, it's a web site, dammit!) for a commision on sales. So, that's the Bicycle Man, the HandyAndyMan, and Faith, The Artist. See what a li'l jawbonin' will do?
UPDATE II: Oh! Almost forgot -- the Irrigation Systems Guy, but he may not do a "spec" site. For some reason, he's distrustful of the "if you make money, I make money" concept. ;) Okay, be that way -- pay me up front, regardless. Duh!
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"Prestonian Productions/Presto Change-O, how may we help you? Oh, yes, thanks for calling back! About that contract job ..."
Would you like some new bidness cards printed up, my man? Just tell me what you want on them and they will be yours. Or attach whatever file you've created and I'll print up a bunch and send them to you. The ones I did when I was job-hunting were well-received. (We can even do the mini-resume thing on the back, if you'd like: summary of talents, etc.)
Although I like your approach of reuse/recycle/re-flip-off-the-ex-employer of your old ones, too. Hee.
Good goin', JP!! You sound like you've suddenly catapulted out of the black pits of gloom and doom and into the sunlight! Actually, everybody's starting to sound like that these days. I'm smiling for the first time in six years, and despite extreme pain, I don't even want painkillers! Email me, btb.
ThePoliticalCat -- Aw, now... you know how I struggle to put handles with e-mails and names, right? :) Do you live on an avenue (in a zip ending in 611) that was an old record label's name?
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GWPDA -- Bless you, doll. Let me send you a postcard, dammit!
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ThePoliticalCat -- Aw, now... you know how I struggle to put handles with e-mails and names, right? :) Do you live on an avenue (in a zip ending in 611) that was an old record label's name?
Poor Bun. Yes, that would be my zip-o-dee-doo-dah. There was such a record label? All I can tell you is, I was born in January, how could I resist living on such a street? I'm guessing you did not yet get my cheque, so I must go beat the Spousal Unit, as they must've forgotten to put it in the mail. Only you can save the Spousal Unit's Body Parts from a drubbing, JP.
PS: My pathetic excuse for not knowing squat about record labels in this country is, I'm a fuckin' furrner. Ear scritches to CurlyQ.
Hey, Jeffraham! It sounds as though things are looking up for you! Congrats on the networking success.
I managed to get a gig, too, and if it doesn't kill me there might be more where that came from.
Good luck! Pet Curly for me!
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