Savings log - $2
Spending log - $2 coffee, milk + $11 lunch (w/ a sushi roll)
This and that today...
Got paid, and we got our raise. I had upped my 403B percent to 13%, which cancelled out the raise. It's how I wanted to play it - if I'm living well within my old paycheck, I might just as well siphon off the excess dollars, having them work for me now by keeping my taxes down next year and later by pumping up my retirement.
Got to the actual plastic bottom of my inbox. The bottom is black smoke, btw.
Talked to DJ coworker. His Internet radio station is coming along - the start date got pushed back to March 1, rather than January 1. He wanted a lot more content to keeping from repeating himself. But things are coming along - he's having me test the broadcasting by giving me a windows media link to play in the background. I also loaned him my recording MP3 player to him to record one of our temp staff who is itching to break into voice-over work. She has a fantastic voice: rich, warm and familiar. You listen and you think, "where have I heard her before?" He recorded the promos and the bumps for the station on MP3s, which he'll then edit out the background noises and cut her sentences into pieces. Weird how much you can do with a toy that has the right sort of extras. We are both still amazed at how well that sucker works.
Its not the stuff, or getting the stuff at the best prices, its knowing what you can do with the stuff you have.
Its amazing that most of my co workers have secret creative lives - artists, musicians, DJs, writers, actors. The woman who wanted the voiceover work sings jazz and has a couple of self produced CDs. Another does painting & mixed media with a couple of gallery shows. Some of his paintings are hanging on the walls in the data entry room. Another acts. Several are DJs (my co worker is furthest along), another sketches and does some fashion design, a couple of dancers, a couple of jewelry designers. I "merely" write.
Free lunch is going to occur on Wednesday - all systems go.
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