Day 4670 Other news...
Aug. 2nd, 2006 07:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wren08Ok.. now that I am awake, there is more news.
I found the perfect artwork for the huge empty space over my bed... it's the 1997 poster from the Outdoor Quilt Show in Sisters Oregon. (Picture here.) Fortunately, I am not having to pay quite that much for it. I wrote Mr McGregor and pleaded my case (which is that I love that piece of art but there's no way I could afford it) and he has found me one at a discount because of corner damage. I'm going to frame it anyway, I couldn't care less if the corners are battered. I'm a quilter not an art collector.
If I haven't mentioned it before, I finished the last set of shelves in my sewing room. I still need to get the treadle machine down from the attic and refurbish it but now I have a corner to put it in. I also need to work on the door. It has fallen aslant and only latches properly with a great deal of effort. This is not acceptable... I want to be able to use that door as much as I want and not have to take ten minutes to make sure it's closed when I do.
There is a bear in the neighbourhood... one of the neighbours saw it crossing the road in our woods the other day. Also Simba-of-the-Bent-Ear has not come home. I am afraid he has encountered the bear. (Or the wolves or something like that.)
80s has done something amazing and perfectly foolish. The other day he went out (in this heat!) and put the engine back in his car... all by himself. I don't know whether to be admiring that he managed it... or furious that there wasn't even anyone else at his house when he did it. I have kind of settled on being quietly both and ignoring the visions I have of the cherry picker falling over on top of him on that slanted gravel driveway.
My trainee finally showed back up to work yesterday. There was a miscommunication on which days she was supposed to be working. Since I am about sick of all the extra work time and we haven't hired anyone else, she is not going to be fired.
This week at work has been a right hair-puller so far. First, it's the first of the month so I have lots of extra work anyway with closing out the books and figuring up statistics and taxes for July. Then day before yesterday, I get a call from someone who says we have bought a huge ad with them... where is it? Well, this is the first I have heard of it so I got them in touch with Sarah. Yesterday morning I came in and the request for a 9" X 7" ad was on my desk. Make this up ASAP since it was supposed to go to the printer back in June. So I dropped everything else and hacked up ad copy and emailed it off.
But it doesn't end there... I'm getting back to my usual first-of-the-month work... and this woman calls and tells me the ad will be in black and grey... all that colour I used is going to just look like blobs... and it's all wrong. It's top-heavy and unbalanced... and it's not camera ready because it's too big. I talked her through using her graphics editing software to crop down to the size needed (my program will NOT spit out a 9" X 7" copy... the best I can do is 8.5" X 11" but I left in crop marks for her to follow) Then I go back to the ad... remake it in black and white (her software would have done that too but it was too hard to explain it over the phone) and email it off again. What I want to know is how do you call yourself a publisher and tell someone that you'll make up the ad for them (which is why I never heard about it... Sarah was told that all she needed to do was submit the logo file) when you don't even know how to crop a jpeg file? Idiot.
I love my job but that was unnecessary.
Oh no! I just realized... when I take down the quilt to mail it off to State, I will loose my design wall too! I'll just have to hang a piece of white cloth up in it's place.
I found the perfect artwork for the huge empty space over my bed... it's the 1997 poster from the Outdoor Quilt Show in Sisters Oregon. (Picture here.) Fortunately, I am not having to pay quite that much for it. I wrote Mr McGregor and pleaded my case (which is that I love that piece of art but there's no way I could afford it) and he has found me one at a discount because of corner damage. I'm going to frame it anyway, I couldn't care less if the corners are battered. I'm a quilter not an art collector.
If I haven't mentioned it before, I finished the last set of shelves in my sewing room. I still need to get the treadle machine down from the attic and refurbish it but now I have a corner to put it in. I also need to work on the door. It has fallen aslant and only latches properly with a great deal of effort. This is not acceptable... I want to be able to use that door as much as I want and not have to take ten minutes to make sure it's closed when I do.
There is a bear in the neighbourhood... one of the neighbours saw it crossing the road in our woods the other day. Also Simba-of-the-Bent-Ear has not come home. I am afraid he has encountered the bear. (Or the wolves or something like that.)
80s has done something amazing and perfectly foolish. The other day he went out (in this heat!) and put the engine back in his car... all by himself. I don't know whether to be admiring that he managed it... or furious that there wasn't even anyone else at his house when he did it. I have kind of settled on being quietly both and ignoring the visions I have of the cherry picker falling over on top of him on that slanted gravel driveway.
My trainee finally showed back up to work yesterday. There was a miscommunication on which days she was supposed to be working. Since I am about sick of all the extra work time and we haven't hired anyone else, she is not going to be fired.
This week at work has been a right hair-puller so far. First, it's the first of the month so I have lots of extra work anyway with closing out the books and figuring up statistics and taxes for July. Then day before yesterday, I get a call from someone who says we have bought a huge ad with them... where is it? Well, this is the first I have heard of it so I got them in touch with Sarah. Yesterday morning I came in and the request for a 9" X 7" ad was on my desk. Make this up ASAP since it was supposed to go to the printer back in June. So I dropped everything else and hacked up ad copy and emailed it off.
But it doesn't end there... I'm getting back to my usual first-of-the-month work... and this woman calls and tells me the ad will be in black and grey... all that colour I used is going to just look like blobs... and it's all wrong. It's top-heavy and unbalanced... and it's not camera ready because it's too big. I talked her through using her graphics editing software to crop down to the size needed (my program will NOT spit out a 9" X 7" copy... the best I can do is 8.5" X 11" but I left in crop marks for her to follow) Then I go back to the ad... remake it in black and white (her software would have done that too but it was too hard to explain it over the phone) and email it off again. What I want to know is how do you call yourself a publisher and tell someone that you'll make up the ad for them (which is why I never heard about it... Sarah was told that all she needed to do was submit the logo file) when you don't even know how to crop a jpeg file? Idiot.
I love my job but that was unnecessary.
Oh no! I just realized... when I take down the quilt to mail it off to State, I will loose my design wall too! I'll just have to hang a piece of white cloth up in it's place.
