“Let’s go on a date this weekend,” Kris said during the middle of last week. “Sounds good,” I said. We haven’t spent much time together lately. I’ve been absorbed in my world, and Kris has been…well, Kris has been watching me be absorbed in my world. “Where are we going?” I asked. “Either the art …
I woke up one morning recently and discovered that Get Rich Slowly had become a business. That’s funny — last I checked, it was meant to be a hobby. What do I mean that GRS has become a business? I mean that I spend most of my time working on the site, both writing articles …
We just fired an employee. Letting a person go is never an easy thing, especially at a small family business like ours. We treat our employees well, and relate to them as real men and women instead of cogs in a machine. But there are times when an employee just isn’t working out, and we’ve …
At Metafiler, Pastabagel writes that he believes some people require constant background noise (where noise is defined not just as auditory, but also visual, etc.) in order to escape self-reflection. That is, some people are so afraid of self-examination that they do everything they can to avoid it by cluttering their life with a chaos …
There are times that I think that Get Rich Slowly is a happy little hobby, a mere plaything that’s earning me side income. Most of the time, I view it as a potential future career. Sometimes — like now, at 7:48 on Tuesday evening — it’s quite clear that this is a full-time job, and …
Foldedspace 3.0
Turn and face the change…
Turn and face the change…
I had hoped to have the new foldedspace up-and-running by now, but you know me: I’ve found other things to keep me occupied. Instead, things are only about a quarter of the way moved over. The last 72 hours have basically been spent “re-modeling” the house. I put re-modeling in quotes because we’re not actually …