[I was recently asked to introduce my skills to a small, private mastermind. Here's what I wrote.]

I see my specialty as being a bridge between techs and "the rest of us".  While even the mention of technical writing may induce yawns, it's a skill that can be critical to the success of a project, and it's something that I do very well.  The more ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago, on a hunch, I returned to Jerry Shock, (the guy who had sold me a case fan), to see if he'd have any success with the intermittent audio on my (now spare) Turtle Beach Ear Force Z11 headset. As I had guessed, he had no problem in fixing it, but he was a bit confused as to why I was spending more than the headset is worth to repair ( Read more... )

One of the major reasons for my last business collapse (leading up to '07) was simply my failing to "mind the store". Things that used to work eventually stopped working, and I didn't have a mechanism to be able to step back and see that. Some would accuse that I was blind to these earlier, smaller failures, and I guess I should plead guilty to ( Read more... )

Re-posting my own response to a discussion on What was the Best Compliment You Ever Received? at Warrior Forum....

I don't know about the best compliment, but as far as most influential....

I had been working in a tech support role for four years, knowing that I had to transition from traditional employment back to self-employment, but I was ( Read more... )

I've been preparing a video to market my voiceover services to video creators. Some of it builds on some audition efforts from three years ago. (Wow; had I really been planning this career for that long?) Many of those older files "should've" been moved a bit to better fit my current file organization method, but I admit that I've been ( Read more... )

From: (me)
To: (boss)
Date: Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 12:06 AM
Subject: notice

I resign, effective April 3 at 11:59pm.

I've been hesitating as to when to finally give notice at my day-job, but last night there were about three different, unrelated sources of drama, and it gave me new inspiration to take a good hard look at cashflows and timings. I'd been waiting for the one serious, annual bonus, which should hit tomorrow, but I'd also been considering an upcoming ( Read more... )

Fifty years old today. I guess it's as good an excuse as any for a perspective-style blog post ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/magazine/what-if-age-is-nothing-but-a-mind-set.html?_r=0

I actually made great progress in October on medium-term income pursuits; hoping to blog a summary soon. Here's an email explaining one part of how that happened:

My name is Liisa - I am the person at the other end of Toggl support, the one reading and replying to your messages when you get in touch with us. Feel free to write to me with ( Read more... )