11.05.08
You say tortoise, I say turtle
Well, my rise to great business heights is going to have to take a slight detour as I have got a bit of a cold this week. While working from home makes it easier to work around sickness in a way you cannot when working outside the home, being sick still lowers your productivity. And I’ve been getting in something like 10+ hour days, 4 days a week, with several hours the other three days a week. That’s not going to happen when I need multiple naps during the day to make up for the terrible sleep I got the night before.
I was just looking out the window behind my computer monitor, idly watching Infanta grazing, when I noticed something on the ground behind her, moving. A bird? So close to her? No, it’s a turtle. I put on some clothes and go out to rescue it. Not from Infanta, and not even from the cat, but from the road; he was making for it fast (even being a turtle). About this time of year, the roads around here are full of box turtles, going wherever box turtles go to hibernate. I’m careful to drive around turtles in the road, but some of the punks that speed up and down this road would not care if they ran over a nice specimen of a turtle. So I went and got it, let Infanta and Grendel both have a sniff of it, took a picture of it, and then put it on a rock facing into the ravine and woods behind our house. Hopefully that will look appealing to him and he will climb down into the rocks and find a place to hibernate for the winter.
My husband informed me a while back that turtles are primarily water animals, while tortoises are primarily land animals, and that despite being called a “box turtle,” what we really have around here are box tortoises.
I had added a Google and Amazon ad each to my main page, to see if I couldn’t draw up a bit of revenue, but I’ve had to get rid of both because one or both of them was slowing my SiteBuilder program down to the point I couldn’t make changes to my home page. I could make changes to all of my other pages, but my home page would allow me to do about three keystrokes or mouse clicks and then it would lock up for about 30 seconds. It was intolerable given the amount of changes I need to make to that page weekly. One or both of them must have been trying to access their sites on the web while I was working on that page, causing the hang-up. If I was running on something faster, it may not even have been noticeable, but it surely is on dial-up.
I donated two of my necklaces to my high school, St. Andrew’s, for their auction this weekend. I’m really hoping to be feeling better so I can go Saturday. I could get in some good networking and hand out many business cards, especially with the help of my stepmother, who will be there; she’s one of those people who has the gift of being able to talk to anyone as if she’s known them for years. Funny enough, there are usually a lot of Episcopalians to be found around this Episcopalian school, and they are one of my prime clienteles when it comes to religious goods. I could also get some help when it comes to finding out what people like in vestments, and maybe I will be able to find the answer to a very pressing question that I’ve had for some time: what’s inside a bishop’s miter? I mean, how does it keep its shape? Wire frame, or buckram, or something else I haven’t even considered? When I know what supports them, then I can make one. There are a couple of surviving medieval ones with a nice bit of beadwork on them, and I’d like to base my creation off one of those.
