The Daily Peeve / Rant

[SiouzQ.]

The thing is I have a hard time concentrating on actual books sitting upright in an uncomfortable chair. I read flopped on the couch at home or propped up with pillows and a heating pad in bed in bed at night. My ability to concentrate on books has gotten more difficult lately; I blame it on all the computer scrolling, scanning the headlines, in general digesting (or not) quick little read-bites. It is something I need to correct, like many of us - less screen time would fix it, I'm sure.

Today is a work day and is bound to be slow again. After sweeping up and dusting the gallery, I'm going to finish some knitting and take my computer so I can work on organizing photos, maybe put some images up for sale in a collector's group I'm in.

I so miss my old job managing the other gallery - my studio was in the back so I could work on metalsmithing during down-time, and if I was tired I could lay down on the bed back in the bedroom and take a cat nap (I had a bell on the door to alert me when people were coming in). Those were the days!

[Yppej]

I read out loud to myself and that helps me concentrate.

[Tradd]

The thing is I have a hard time concentrating on actual books sitting upright in an uncomfortable chair. I read flopped on the couch at home or propped up with pillows and a heating pad in bed in bed at night. My ability to concentrate on books has gotten more difficult lately; I blame it on all the computer scrolling, scanning the headlines, in general digesting (or not) quick little read-bites. It is something I need to correct, like many of us - less screen time would fix it, I'm sure.

Today is a work day and is bound to be slow again. After sweeping up and dusting the gallery, I'm going to finish some knitting and take my computer so I can work on organizing photos, maybe put some images up for sale in a collector's group I'm in.

I so miss my old job managing the other gallery - my studio was in the back so I could work on metalsmithing during down-time, and if I was tired I could lay down on the bed back in the bedroom and take a cat nap (I had a bell on the door to alert me when people were coming in). Those were the days!

Actual books? Do you do ebooks at all? I’m a massive fan of ebooks even though I still do hard copy books.

[SiouzQ.]

I opened at 10:00; it is now 1:30. I have not had a single person in here except the lady who sells tamales door-to-door (they are exceptionally delicious, BTW). There is all this leftover Halloween candy staring at me as well. I do pretty good not eating some of it until about 3:30 starts calling to me...been doing stuff on my computer for awhile but am tiring of that, so now I am going to finish a glove. What I really want to do is take a nap...

[Tradd]

I have been telling customers left and right I will be on vacation next week so please get me needed paperwork asap. NO ONE has any urgency. I have one other coworker in my dept. very stressful when the other is out. People send me paperwork I’m not asking for, for shipments that arrive in January. I finally have been telling everyone that if you don’t get me what I need before I leave, we will not be responsible for any delays, port storage charges, etc. I was told by a customer to not be so alarmist. I give up. They’ll bellyache when their stuff isn’t cleared through customs but we have proof of many emails asking for needed paperwork.

[ToomuchStuff]

I have been telling customers left and right I will be on vacation next week so please get me needed paperwork asap. NO ONE has any urgency. I have one other coworker in my dept. very stressful when the other is out. People send me paperwork I’m not asking for, for shipments that arrive in January. I finally have been telling everyone that if you don’t get me what I need before I leave, we will not be responsible for any delays, port storage charges, etc. I was told by a customer to not be so alarmist. I give up. They’ll bellyache when their stuff isn’t cleared through customs but we have proof of many emails asking for needed paperwork.

So when they want you to come back and work during your vacation, you should have one of these emails with a billable rate, that would make it work your time, say a million dollars an hour.

[iris lilies]

Tax law. UGG. I am ignorant about it all and we had a recent tax event that caused me to go out on on the web and find out what Mr. Google had to say about it. It wasn’t clarified for me at all.

I just hate that our tax laws are so complicated.

DH talked to our CPA and apparently there’s no way we can dodge a big stock sale capital gains hit coming our way, completely unexpected. Blech.

[happystuff]

So when they want you to come back and work during your vacation, you should have one of these emails with a billable rate, that would make it work your time, say a million dollars an hour.

With a 2-hour minimum paid in advance! LOL

[sweetana3]

Got a lovely Christmas card from our local Habitat for Humanity personally signed by the director. Husband volunteers for them full time most of the year and donates a lot. Problem: in this nice card is a donation request and return envelope. Is it too much to just get a nice card for the holidays? I get plenty of donation requests throughout the year. I got pretty upset and sent them a message regarding this. None of the other local charities we donate to did this.

I swing between being angry and thinking I am just being petty.

[JaneV2.0]

Got a lovely Christmas card from our local Habitat for Humanity personally signed by the director. Husband volunteers for them full time most of the year and donates a lot. Problem: in this nice card is a donation request and return envelope. Is it too much to just get a nice card for the holidays? I get plenty of donation requests throughout the year. I got pretty upset and sent them a message regarding this. None of the other local charities we donate to did this.

I swing between being angry and thinking I am just being petty.

You're not being petty. Volunteering in various places left a bad taste in my mouth also.