Titles are so meh
I am supposed to be sleeping right now but I am failing at it in a bad way. I'm not really that tired and my mind is moving fast which generally equal no sleepy for Dom. I worked yesterday from 7 A.M. to 7:30 P.M., and it was a very frustrating day though I won't bore you with discussions of unstable gallium fluxes, and then tonight I work 7 P.M. to 7:30 A.M. I went to sleep last night at 10 after getting out my frustrations with wine and rock band but I got up early so I could run a bunch of errands with my mom and then go to sleep.
I was heading to bed when I got a call from GRC, the militant arm of Sallie Mae, explaining that I had defaulted on a loan from Tulane. Maybe a dozen of you have known me long enough to have known me when I went there over a decade ago. Now they are saying that a loan defaulted this September, that Tulane had no obligation to contact me and that the default charge can be 100% of the loan (um, isn't that the very definition of usury?) and that I could pay it off within three months (HA!) or I could consolidate by which they mean switch the loan to them. So, left with zero options, I guess I'm gonna start paying this back via GRC. On a more positive note, this is supposedly not going to have any effect on my credit.
Now that I cannot get to sleep I have been now updating the cafepress site a little. I uploaded a couple of new designs today too. Lately, though, I've been mildly obsessing over the stats that I get from statcounter.com. I was getting a good bit of traffic for a couple of days (~200 a day) and even sold a couple of things but the last few days it's been single digits. I've read a few articles about how cafepress takes patience and I'm taking that to heart but it can be difficult at times.
My biggest concern is that the site is boring. I've been checking out other sites and I've gotten some ideas on how to make the site better through manual HTML editing so I'm gonna start working on things like that tonight if my schedule allows it. My other hand up is that I feel like I am bad at art because I cannot draw to save my life. On the rare occasion that I draw up a design first, it is laughably bad. I feel a lot more unencumbered when I'm using a program to make digital graphics but I still feel that my lack of real world art skills holds me back. I suppose there is not too much I can do about that except to shut up and keep plugging away while trying to get better.
I was heading to bed when I got a call from GRC, the militant arm of Sallie Mae, explaining that I had defaulted on a loan from Tulane. Maybe a dozen of you have known me long enough to have known me when I went there over a decade ago. Now they are saying that a loan defaulted this September, that Tulane had no obligation to contact me and that the default charge can be 100% of the loan (um, isn't that the very definition of usury?) and that I could pay it off within three months (HA!) or I could consolidate by which they mean switch the loan to them. So, left with zero options, I guess I'm gonna start paying this back via GRC. On a more positive note, this is supposedly not going to have any effect on my credit.
Now that I cannot get to sleep I have been now updating the cafepress site a little. I uploaded a couple of new designs today too. Lately, though, I've been mildly obsessing over the stats that I get from statcounter.com. I was getting a good bit of traffic for a couple of days (~200 a day) and even sold a couple of things but the last few days it's been single digits. I've read a few articles about how cafepress takes patience and I'm taking that to heart but it can be difficult at times.
My biggest concern is that the site is boring. I've been checking out other sites and I've gotten some ideas on how to make the site better through manual HTML editing so I'm gonna start working on things like that tonight if my schedule allows it. My other hand up is that I feel like I am bad at art because I cannot draw to save my life. On the rare occasion that I draw up a design first, it is laughably bad. I feel a lot more unencumbered when I'm using a program to make digital graphics but I still feel that my lack of real world art skills holds me back. I suppose there is not too much I can do about that except to shut up and keep plugging away while trying to get better.