Goal Status 090531
I feel I have made little progress in my goals since my last update over a year ago (wow... I neglected that for a long time!), but here we are:
WIFE - I can't say I've met anyone whom I think is very interested in me, and I haven't met anyone I know for sure has potential to become my wife, but life being what it is, I don't know. I'm trying to build up my circle of friends (I'll say more about this in a moment), but I'm also always on the lookout for my wife. The young lady I mentioned in my last goal status entry soon became involved in a relationship and did not message me long after I met her, so I don't guess that's going to go anywhere.
DEGREE I've finished my degree, so: FRIENDS - I've been thinking about it, and I judge that I don't really have many local friends. I have many acquaintances, some of whom share with me a level of caring, but hardly any I'd call friends. For one thing, there is nobody in town that I would feel I could call on the phone and ask if they're doing something tonight and would they like to hang out. Not one. I've been getting out among people, and I'm proud of myself for doing that, but it is mostly to the game store, where the median age is probably 17. Very few people my age hang out there.
CAREER - My business limps along. It's not the economy that holds me back; it is name recognition. I doubt 1% of the businesses in town know I'm out here doing Web design. Part of the reason for this (and I'm not complaining but explaining) is the time I had to take off to help with family medical crises over the last nine or so months. But part of it is my lack of a social network. I've never been a good salesman... maybe I should set up an affiliate program for people to bring me business and get a finder's fee for bringing me a customer who pays a deposit on some Web work. I'm kind of leery of this, because I used to work for a window company that did things that way. They'd hire tons of people to go door to door setting up appointments for the guy to try to sell them windows. They were good windows, but the whole three or so months I spent walking from door to door in the heat of the late spring and early summer, I only got paid for one appointment; so I know how hard it is to earn money that way, and I'm not sure how comfortable I am with asking people to work that hard for that little return... but on the other hand, it is something someone with a good personality and loads of acquaintances could do more easily than I could to earn a little bit of pocket change.
NOVEL I'll call this instead WRITING - I haven't really done any serious writing lately. I've tried to get back into the habit, but I have not had much motivation internally, and pretty much none externally. No one seems to care whether I write or not. However, I have been using my creative energies. I've been pouring them into making a game world for my gaming group. This interests me and sparks my creativity, but it is unlikely to bring me any money at all. The past couple of days, though, I've been thinking on my novel To Walk Among Stars, so I may do some writing in that... though I'd rather have A Taste of Champagne done first, since it comes earlier in the saga. I'll have to see.
Anyway, that's the status of my major goals as of today.
WIFE - I can't say I've met anyone whom I think is very interested in me, and I haven't met anyone I know for sure has potential to become my wife, but life being what it is, I don't know. I'm trying to build up my circle of friends (I'll say more about this in a moment), but I'm also always on the lookout for my wife. The young lady I mentioned in my last goal status entry soon became involved in a relationship and did not message me long after I met her, so I don't guess that's going to go anywhere.
DEGREE I've finished my degree, so: FRIENDS - I've been thinking about it, and I judge that I don't really have many local friends. I have many acquaintances, some of whom share with me a level of caring, but hardly any I'd call friends. For one thing, there is nobody in town that I would feel I could call on the phone and ask if they're doing something tonight and would they like to hang out. Not one. I've been getting out among people, and I'm proud of myself for doing that, but it is mostly to the game store, where the median age is probably 17. Very few people my age hang out there.
CAREER - My business limps along. It's not the economy that holds me back; it is name recognition. I doubt 1% of the businesses in town know I'm out here doing Web design. Part of the reason for this (and I'm not complaining but explaining) is the time I had to take off to help with family medical crises over the last nine or so months. But part of it is my lack of a social network. I've never been a good salesman... maybe I should set up an affiliate program for people to bring me business and get a finder's fee for bringing me a customer who pays a deposit on some Web work. I'm kind of leery of this, because I used to work for a window company that did things that way. They'd hire tons of people to go door to door setting up appointments for the guy to try to sell them windows. They were good windows, but the whole three or so months I spent walking from door to door in the heat of the late spring and early summer, I only got paid for one appointment; so I know how hard it is to earn money that way, and I'm not sure how comfortable I am with asking people to work that hard for that little return... but on the other hand, it is something someone with a good personality and loads of acquaintances could do more easily than I could to earn a little bit of pocket change.
NOVEL I'll call this instead WRITING - I haven't really done any serious writing lately. I've tried to get back into the habit, but I have not had much motivation internally, and pretty much none externally. No one seems to care whether I write or not. However, I have been using my creative energies. I've been pouring them into making a game world for my gaming group. This interests me and sparks my creativity, but it is unlikely to bring me any money at all. The past couple of days, though, I've been thinking on my novel To Walk Among Stars, so I may do some writing in that... though I'd rather have A Taste of Champagne done first, since it comes earlier in the saga. I'll have to see.
Anyway, that's the status of my major goals as of today.