An Update

Sep 24, 2009 00:51

Hmm i notice most of the posts on my friends page are from Poor Skills. Something i should be reading more of i guess.

Anyway seems some things are working out (crosses fingers). I have an interview tomorrow. The first one in months. And when i did the assessments i got 90% in customer service and 100% in data entry. So who knows.. the job is long term temp at $11/hour and is in Gaithersburg. I will be going through a temp agency.

Yeah i know its not art.. but at this point we really need the money. I will keep looking for better jobs though and still plan on making a flier to advertise murals.

Meanwhile the menagerie has grown. We now have 3 cats, 1 green iguana, 3 ball pythons, a fluctuating number of feeder mice, a tarantula, a blue cobalt tarantula, a blue tongued skink and a baby veiled chameleon. Oh yes and the 7 deadly sins, 7 hissing cockroaches.

Needless to say, most of these belong to my daughters and my daughter's husband. The youngest gave up her rabbit since she was not taking care of it.

Out of all this i have one surviving feeder mouse that i rescued from an early batch. His name is Voldemort since he was bigger and lived longer as a survivor feeder mouse. Originally i had planned on having a couple.. male and female but no other mice have survived with him around.. he attacks the young males we mistake for females and have put in there.. and the one female mysteriously died.

Anyway i suspect i may be missing a pet.. not sure what else might be in my daughter's room. A couple of the lizards, the skink and chameleon were bought at the mid atlantic reptile show in Timonium MD. After seeing the chameleon i now want one myself, even though they are a very hard lizard to raise. They have to have very special conditions such as clean running water and crickets not to mention reptocal that all reptiles need to be healthy. But it is so cool! My daughter says it chirps.. and its very neat to have it walk over ones hand.. it is so tiny it fits on one finger. She is constantly changing color to match her environment or mood and right now, looks like this:
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/reptiles/lizards_chameleons/images/VeiledChameleon(juv)WHLC_Ap8Rp.jpg

Obviously not my picture.. but im sure the kids have pictures around here somewhere. If i find one i will post it.

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In the other world, Saturday is the day of our big opening. The Three Dragons will have an all day 50% off sale and a formal ball in the evening. I am still boxing up things, paintings i did in the real world.. and currently wind chimes i have made. Already set up are mead, ale, wine and bloodwine barrels. When i have time i will script the mounted barrels to give a goblet or mug of whatever drink the barrel is, with a drink script. But for now i have too much going on.

I also have a couple fountains, a fire place, and a couple stone lanterns, an incense bowl and bubbling cauldron. I do really like creating things there.. but have not had much chance to learn about or use sculpt studio, the program my friends bought me. I will have to redo the tutorials when i get a chance.

Once this Saturday is past i also have another project i am working on. Murals in-world for the Alliance center over Sylvhara Anar. My friend Ondine and i are both doing them .. as Malikith specified, Egyptian style.. the history of the (sl) drow race. We have a lot of work to do still though we have done 3 panels each and to finish the first set we need to have done 13.

Well it will get done sooner or later though if i get this job it will probably be later. Anyway i wonder if i can sleep now.. computer will still be on though .. as Tom bought a subscription to City of Heros for our youngest daughter and then found out it wont work on his computer.. so its taking all night to download on my computer.. perhaps not such a good thing but its already bought.

At least it will take someone to sign her in and she has to ask permission to play. But still i don't really like it that she will be wanting to use my computer, especially since my time will be so short if i get this job and i have so much to do. I guess we will have to see how things work out.

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pets, art, work

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