So, as I've said, this week I'm going to work at about 6 am for some cross-training in paper planning. Basically, this means that I'll be able to figure out how big the newspaper will be each day (it involves a fairly convoluted calcuation involving the number of inches the news department wants, plus the number of inches of retail advertising, plus the number of pages of classified advertising, and figuring out the best way to fit that all in) as well as determining where each ad will be run.
It's kind of interesting, although even after two days, a lot of it's still Greek to me.
One good thing about this is that I'm getting off earlier than usual... yesterday at 3, today at 3:30, so I can pick up our foster son (the three-year-old, who we refer to on the "Building Our Family" blog as T3) from his daycare and get to spend some time with him before Jessi comes home with T1, our other foster son (who's 1). It's kind of confusing, having two boys whose names start with T (their middle initials are both J, which doesn't help). T3 will eventually be adopted by us, and he's already starting to call us "mommy" and "dad."
It's a real challenge trying to manage my normal at-home stuff with these two, as you can imagine! And I'll probably write some about that on the other blog either tonight or tomorrow (I hope you're checking it out).
In other stuff... last week, I obtained nine boxes of LPs that were being offered for free. When I had a few spare minutes, I'd look through them, pull some albums that looked like they might be worth selling on eBay, and take them to my office to see how they fared in recent auctions. Out of those nine boxes, I have a stack that's maybe eight inches tall that I'll try to get up for sale, plus a few that I'll probably offer directly to the owners of a few blogs that create MP3s of out-of-print LPs and offer them to share online. I'm pretty sure those few aren't on CD these days!
Of course, I have no turntable, so I'll be estimating condition as best as I can.
Haven't been reading anything from the library lately... in fact, there's a few items being held for me right now I probably should just cancel, because there's no way right now I can consider taking on any reading that needs to be finished at a set day!
In another week or two, I should be getting another freelance gig coming in that I can't divulge anything about. Fortunately, the deadline for that is pretty flexible, as I'm not sure when I'll be able to get much done on it!
The last few gigs I worked on still haven't paid me yet, which is annoying as hell... I could really use that money right now, as little as it is!
I may be putting some comics for sale on the eBay before too long, too... I've been starting to read the books I bought at Emerald City, and those will likely be what's going to go up, assuming I decide to put up any at all. I'd been kind of hoping to rebuild the collection a bit, because it gets very tiring building a collection, and then having to sell it all off!
Jon