Checkpoint...
Mar. 28th, 2007 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe plate is completely clear as of a little while ago; literally minutes. The ISS crew went to sleep early, so the MSR shut down at around 10:45 pm, after which I went home. Tomorrow, I shall carefully review what I've done over the past week or so to make sure I've invoiced everything that needs invoicing, and fill in any discovered gaps.
I could glean no additional information regarding the "near miss" yesterday in the Pacific. News reports I saw in Russian neither confirmed nor denied that an Airbus A340 was nearly swept from the sky by a reentering Progress, and the Russians I was working with had no idea either, or at least said they didn't.
After invoicing all outstanding items tomorrow, I shall have to again turn to the ever-present paper chase.
In my "off time" (how can I say that?), I've been concentrating on various aspects of improving my mental attitude. Among other sources, I have been hitting Jeffrey Gitomer's books pretty hard. His target audience is people who work in sales, but for just about ever, I've felt that anyone who freelances (as I do) is by definition in the sales racket, to one degree or another.
I feel that I am approaching a cusp of some kind. The work this past month has been coming in steadily enough to make me start wondering if it's time to seriously look for an employee. How much more work could I find if I devoted time to getting non-agency clients? On the other tentacle, there has been a fundamental sea change in the structure of my work over the past year. (For example, it's unlikely that I'll be going to Kazakhstan any time soon.) That might argue against trying, as my stepdad puts it, "to jump higher than my butt."
Still, it's not as if I need a complete overhaul of the attitude engine. I am generally quick to recover from bad beats and rotten moods. But I'm probably still a far way from where I need to be.
Enough platitudinous malarkey. I seriously need to get some sleep.
Cheers...
I could glean no additional information regarding the "near miss" yesterday in the Pacific. News reports I saw in Russian neither confirmed nor denied that an Airbus A340 was nearly swept from the sky by a reentering Progress, and the Russians I was working with had no idea either, or at least said they didn't.
After invoicing all outstanding items tomorrow, I shall have to again turn to the ever-present paper chase.
In my "off time" (how can I say that?), I've been concentrating on various aspects of improving my mental attitude. Among other sources, I have been hitting Jeffrey Gitomer's books pretty hard. His target audience is people who work in sales, but for just about ever, I've felt that anyone who freelances (as I do) is by definition in the sales racket, to one degree or another.
I feel that I am approaching a cusp of some kind. The work this past month has been coming in steadily enough to make me start wondering if it's time to seriously look for an employee. How much more work could I find if I devoted time to getting non-agency clients? On the other tentacle, there has been a fundamental sea change in the structure of my work over the past year. (For example, it's unlikely that I'll be going to Kazakhstan any time soon.) That might argue against trying, as my stepdad puts it, "to jump higher than my butt."
Still, it's not as if I need a complete overhaul of the attitude engine. I am generally quick to recover from bad beats and rotten moods. But I'm probably still a far way from where I need to be.
Enough platitudinous malarkey. I seriously need to get some sleep.
Cheers...
