Coming up for breath...

Yesterday evaporated in a blur of garage sales and thrift shops, with a brief diversion to the flea market in Pearland. The day came to a close with a viewing of Click, with Adam Sandler, an actor whose work I generally try to avoid, but which I actually enjoyed... it's likely the sentimentalist in me.

The purpose of the darting about was, for me, to find some of the things that we need around here, and to find them cheaply (as we already have copies of them back in Pagosa). Case in point: a mixing bowl, which I don't want to spend $5 or more for in a store, but which I will pay 50 cents for in someone's driveway. I also stocked up on more paperback books, especially at the stop where the lady of the house was all but giving them away.

I've got to turn to and get the office in order for the upcoming week, and respond to two work-related emails that arrived yesterday.

Cheers...

Sunday roundup...

I finally got around to posting some stuff on eBay, though my tempo in doing so was not energetic enough for some folks 'round these here parts. :^) The good news is that I managed to take some reasonable pictures to go with the posts; the bad news is that the whole photo setup I worked on had the feel of permanancy one might associate with a structure made of, say, cotton candy at high noon in July.

Still, I managed to research the goods, take the photos, learn to use the eBay Turbo Lister software, and actually list items without screwing up too badly. I haven't any stats to consult regarding sales, but I figure a consistent posting of some sales figure's worth of goods per day (say, $50 of salable stuff, not junk) will create an inventory of $1,500 in a month or - perhaps unrealistically - $18,000 per year. (I say 'perhaps unrealistically,' because it'll be difficult enough to find that much quality stuff on a daily basis, much less list it on eBay; heck, posting to my LJ is not something I manage to accomplish every day!)

The cleanup continued around the new listings and even extended to the stuff that's been accumulating in the closet as a result of all the commotion in the main part of the office, so I'm in pretty good shape for the week. Things better start looking up right quick, as the prognosis for the immediate two weeks is looking pretty haphazard, financially.

A bunch of different recipes and ads came together in my head this evening, allowing me to concoct a pleasant "salsa" for salmon, made from fresh pineapple, fresh ginger, onion, green pepper, tomato, garlic, and a dash of hot sauce from Jamaica. I served part of the salsa "as is" for dinner (to which we invited our neighbor Vadim, whose wife Bella gets home from a trip abroad tomorrow), and another part mixed with some teriyaki sauce that is manufactured in Pagosa (and which is phenomenally popular up there; a few years ago, the husband of the woman who brews it up was trying to sell the recipe for something like $250,000).

As it turned out, the addition of the teriyaki sauce added some ingredients (soy sauce, sake, sugar) that make an appearance in a number of recipes for similar stuff. I liked the version with the teriyaki sauce, although in general the combination of pineapple and ginger root created a pleasant taste that wasn't cloyingly sweet. Dinner went well.

Tomorrow's job doesn't start until nearly noon, so I have no worries there. I still haven't responded to the work-related emails that arrived yesterday, but as there is no break-neck rush on either issue covered in the messages, they will keep until tomorrow morning.

Cheers...