I've been caught up in a whirlwind of activity. It's what I wanted and it is what has happened. I've always been fortunate in that I get what I want in life I suppose. I wanted to design from my laptop in a coffee shop (or wherever) and I'm doing it. I wanted to take part in giving a certaing visual quality to stevenson and help it grow, and that is happening too.
About 5 weeks ago, I finally met this guy (john) in Stevenson that I'd been emailing with periodically, and we had a certain degree of musicianship in common. So we got together an played one evening. John is involved with business development, and he introduced me to another guy (Joe) who owns the two most successful restaurants here and is also an active member of the chamber of commerce and business development.
These two are great, and because of them I have enough work to keep me busy for quite some time. So I've been attending business meetings and really trying to make myself known in the community. All of these guys show up in a little homemade venue to play music each weekend, and I'm there. They appreciate a new drummer in town I think, and I am extremely grateful that I stuck with drumming. I went to locals night last night at the "walking man" and everyone was there, joe and john included. I also went to an internet security lecture last night, and learned about problems that are not really mine (macintosh). Joe was there also. I offered to do some legwork and writing in a "no whistle policy" for a local hotel owner, where the trains won't be allowed to toot their horns at 2:00 am, so maybe he'll give me some business down the road. I sent off a proposal today that should be approved for an interactive map of stevenson. I billed Joe because I'm at a halfway point on the first restaurant site. And I finally have a breather after a flurry of proposal writing and design work. It's a beautiful chilly day in Stevenson and I'm writing from Bahma with their refreshingly fast internet connection on my laptop. I'm learning how to create wireframes for the purpose of web design functional specs and estimating programming requirements, and I'm learning to write propsals to incorporate those estimates. I guess that's about it. I'll sip from this cup as long as it's in front of me. For fun, I'm learning guitar and I have been inline skating along the columbia river too. For a while there, I was getting way too into my TV shows, but I only allow an hour a day now. Things have since become a blur.
That's my update. It's a little dry, but I'm fried today, and all of this stuff has been the ONLY thing on my mind.
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Wow, Greyson. That doesn't sound "dry" at all. It sounds very exciting. Starts to put all that hard preparation work into better perspective.
Congrats!!
Just got home from a retreat and discovered your entry. It is awesome that you have stuck with your ideas and not let convention suck out the creative juices. You're iniative is inspiring, and the mix of local politics, business, and pleasure sounds refreshing. Not at all dry. I'm hoping to come into those concrete fiscal rewards in the next few years.
Keep at it!
Traci
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