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Wazzup?!?

Posted by Shawn (Who am I?)

Well, tons are going on here.  I’ve been trying to get my schedule adjusted after grabbing a part time job recently.  After getting laid off in 2002, I have mainly worked on online projects at home while staying with my elderly mother.  After six years of mainly working online, it has been pretty refreshing to work in a place where I actually see people face to face again - no offense to all my online friends and colleagues of course!

So for about a month, I have been working as a stock person/cashier/any other duties as assigned for Tarlton Market - a small town IGA market/gas station in southeastern Ohio.  After working a job “guarding” a desk for so long, the physical aspects of the lifting and standing have at times left my body screaming but in all has been a welcome change!

With the funky schedule of a part-time job, my project schedule has become a bit scatterbrained.  I’m still working to get acclaimated to my schedule enough to where I can resume development of myNicheShop.  I have been laying out in my mind what needs to be done both with the API server, the plugin, and its CafePress module.  Unfortunately finding a solid block of time to dig into the coding has been problematic.  I’m hoping to knockout a majority of the coding for the server part on Monday or Wednesday - depending on which day I feel energetic enough to get out into the yard and rake up all the fall leaves and hickory nuts that are scattered about.. lol

Another thing that I haven’t done much of lately that I thoroughly enjoy is do much photography.  A good friend and fellow photographer helped me remedy that last weekend.  We spent much of Friday October 10th driving around Fairfield and Hocking counties in Ohio in search of autumn color to shoot.  We were able to see some, but unfortunately the dry weather may be effecting things a bit.  Plus afterwards I saw the weather guys on the news state that southern Ohio would likely peak towards the end of October.  So I guess there is still hope.  You can see what I shot that Friday in my Flickr albums (Fairfield County Autumn - 101008 and Hocking Hills Autumn - 101008).  We also set out on Monday 101308 and hit the Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus and then up to Ye Olde Mill (Velvet Ice Cream) in Utica (Franklin Park Conservatory - 101308 and Ye Olde Mill - 101308).  Hopefully more outtings will be published in my Flickr galleries as I have time to upload them!

In addition to the above, I have also been working on a couple of new websites.  One which I will use to market photography services such as senior portraits for high school seniors and wedding photography.  Planning for all of this is still early in the works but hopefully I will be ready to publish the site and have more information in the months to come.

At any rate, things have been hectic and speaking of which I need to run to the part-time job now..  So catch yall soon!