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I need to say thank you to bemused01 and perplexed01. I think Amanda was the one who did a post a couple weeks ago about a Laurell K. Hamilton book. I was in desperate need of something to read so I ordered the first six of the Anita Blake series and the first one in the Meredith Gertry series and I absolutely love them! I just finished the 2nd of the faerie ones that I checked out of the library...I don't like those as much as I do the Anita books though. I ordered the rest of the Anita Blake ones from sfbc but they haven't come yet and I don't have anything to read now...I think I'm going into withdrawal. Our system at work went down for like an hour and 1/2 today so I did a search to see how many more of the Merry Gentry ones are available and ran across Laurell K. Hamilton's blog and started reading stuff I shouldn't since I still 5 have more books to read. Anyway along the same thread I listed an auction tonight of a vampire drawing. I didn't do it .01 since my last drawing ended so disastrously...if this one doens't do any better I'm not going to auction any more drawings.
If however I do more drawings I need to remember to not make the figure so large that I can't get the whole thing on the paper...thats the second time I've done that!
Also since Carrie found me out ;) I'm listing art under another ebay id...so far its not going very well at all. I wanted to be able to do some different things and experiment a bit without it reflecting to much on my other work. Carrie says it looks just like mine so I guess I didn't experiment enough. ;) Here's the link to that auction if anyone is interested.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3702010897&category=20158
I was going to do it in watercolor but I screwed up inking the face so I did it in acrylic and still messed it up. I wasn't too worried about it since it wasn't under my name but everybody knows its mine now so I guess I should have paid more attention to it. I'll probably try listing some things under that one every once and a while.
I have two paintings I'm working on right now...the grape fairy and another painting. I'm going to try to finish up one of them this weekend.
I almost forgot to put this about the strike in CA. I have an ebay artist friend that this may be affecting soon.
Dear Friend:
Since mid-October, 70,000 grocery workers have courageously kept up the picket lines in Southern California. These brave workers are holding the line for health care and good jobs in the face of stubborn employer greed. The stand they have taken is not just for their own families, but for all families, at a time when too many employers are shredding the standards for decent benefits we worked long and hard to build. They're on strike or have been locked out by their employers, including Safeway-owned Vons, Kroger-owned Ralphs and Albertsons for more than 16 weeks now.
That is a very long time for these workers and their families to go without their regular paycheck or health care coverage. They need your help.
REQUESTED ACTION: We're asking you to change your everyday routine and not shop at Safeway during the strike. The striking grocery workers are asking you to do this because the company that owns Safeway is stubbornly refusing to negotiate a reasonable contract. We all need to vote with our shopping choices and tell these giant grocery corporations that their actions are unacceptable and we will not support them with our business.
Please don't shop at Safeway and help get the word out by forwarding this e-mail to your friends, family and co-workers.
These workers feel their struggle is essential to the well-being and future of their families. Maria Lopez, a five-year Vons employee, had this to say about the strike. "I've been out there [on the picket line] for 40 hours a week because I'm fighting for my health benefits. There are a lot of moms on the line. We are afraid to lose our jobs with this strike but more afraid to lose our health benefits if the company gets its way. If one of my kids gets really sick and I couldn't afford the insurance, I wouldn't know what to do."
By clicking on the link below you also can donate to a special strike fund set up to help these workers. Some workers are in dire straits-especially if somebody in the family is sick.
https://secure.ga3.org/08/holdtheline
Why is this strike so important? The grocery chains are demanding the workers accept what amounts to a 75 percent cut in health coverage for new workers and a 50 percent cut for current employees. Like too many employers across America, they are trying to boost their profits at the expense of workers and their families. If the grocery chains win, we'll all have a harder time holding on to health care benefits. The workers must win.
Learn more about the grocery strike on the AFL-CIO website by clicking on the link below.
http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/jobs/groceryworkers.cfm
Visit the website of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
http://www.ufcw.org/
Thank you so much for thinking of these workers.
If however I do more drawings I need to remember to not make the figure so large that I can't get the whole thing on the paper...thats the second time I've done that!
Also since Carrie found me out ;) I'm listing art under another ebay id...so far its not going very well at all. I wanted to be able to do some different things and experiment a bit without it reflecting to much on my other work. Carrie says it looks just like mine so I guess I didn't experiment enough. ;) Here's the link to that auction if anyone is interested.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3702010897&category=20158
I was going to do it in watercolor but I screwed up inking the face so I did it in acrylic and still messed it up. I wasn't too worried about it since it wasn't under my name but everybody knows its mine now so I guess I should have paid more attention to it. I'll probably try listing some things under that one every once and a while.
I have two paintings I'm working on right now...the grape fairy and another painting. I'm going to try to finish up one of them this weekend.
I almost forgot to put this about the strike in CA. I have an ebay artist friend that this may be affecting soon.
Dear Friend:
Since mid-October, 70,000 grocery workers have courageously kept up the picket lines in Southern California. These brave workers are holding the line for health care and good jobs in the face of stubborn employer greed. The stand they have taken is not just for their own families, but for all families, at a time when too many employers are shredding the standards for decent benefits we worked long and hard to build. They're on strike or have been locked out by their employers, including Safeway-owned Vons, Kroger-owned Ralphs and Albertsons for more than 16 weeks now.
That is a very long time for these workers and their families to go without their regular paycheck or health care coverage. They need your help.
REQUESTED ACTION: We're asking you to change your everyday routine and not shop at Safeway during the strike. The striking grocery workers are asking you to do this because the company that owns Safeway is stubbornly refusing to negotiate a reasonable contract. We all need to vote with our shopping choices and tell these giant grocery corporations that their actions are unacceptable and we will not support them with our business.
Please don't shop at Safeway and help get the word out by forwarding this e-mail to your friends, family and co-workers.
These workers feel their struggle is essential to the well-being and future of their families. Maria Lopez, a five-year Vons employee, had this to say about the strike. "I've been out there [on the picket line] for 40 hours a week because I'm fighting for my health benefits. There are a lot of moms on the line. We are afraid to lose our jobs with this strike but more afraid to lose our health benefits if the company gets its way. If one of my kids gets really sick and I couldn't afford the insurance, I wouldn't know what to do."
By clicking on the link below you also can donate to a special strike fund set up to help these workers. Some workers are in dire straits-especially if somebody in the family is sick.
https://secure.ga3.org/08/holdtheline
Why is this strike so important? The grocery chains are demanding the workers accept what amounts to a 75 percent cut in health coverage for new workers and a 50 percent cut for current employees. Like too many employers across America, they are trying to boost their profits at the expense of workers and their families. If the grocery chains win, we'll all have a harder time holding on to health care benefits. The workers must win.
Learn more about the grocery strike on the AFL-CIO website by clicking on the link below.
http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/jobs/groceryworkers.cfm
Visit the website of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
http://www.ufcw.org/
Thank you so much for thinking of these workers.