Treading water...
Jan. 24th, 2006 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpGalina went in to open the store this morning while I stayed at home and invoiced recent work. January translations started out well, but have faded in the middle. I have another document right now to do for tomorrow, but it's a small job. There's still a week left in the month, though, and I have to keep in mind that truly, it ain't over 'til it's over.
When I did get into the store, Galina told me the landlord called and gave us until April to vacate the premises. Considering that the shopping center has a whoppingly large vacancy rate, I suspect that means he's lined up someone to basically replace us (i.e., someone else who'll do packaging and mailing). So be it. Maybe we'll do better as a business with some local competition, or maybe they'll be so much better at it that they'll snuff us out in short order, I don't know. But I do know that I'll be personally a lot better off without having to contribute productive time to help keep the store running.
I managed to gain 5 pounds while in Texas, probably the result of eating "normal" meals at Luby's (entree and two veggies, no bread, no soft drinks, no dessert), interspersed with lunches at Wendy's. I pretty much laid off the sweet stuff and typically ate only twice a day, but apparently what I did eat was enough to trigger fat storage.
It occurred to me last night, after I saw the backed up shower downstairs, that the problem might well lie in the fact that we had been gone for almost 10 days, and that without the normal flow of graywater into our septic system, the system pretty much froze solid. I went down to the evaporation lagoon this morning and it was covered with ice, which I think is normal for this time of year (it snowed a little while we were gone, but I am told the temperatures were well and truly frosty), and it was thick enough for a round of 16 gauge buckshot to merely nick the surface of the ice. The level of water in the shower pan last night indicated that there is some drainage going on, slowly, so I figure we ought to be okay as long as we don't pour a lot of water down the drain all at once. I hope.
Cheers...
When I did get into the store, Galina told me the landlord called and gave us until April to vacate the premises. Considering that the shopping center has a whoppingly large vacancy rate, I suspect that means he's lined up someone to basically replace us (i.e., someone else who'll do packaging and mailing). So be it. Maybe we'll do better as a business with some local competition, or maybe they'll be so much better at it that they'll snuff us out in short order, I don't know. But I do know that I'll be personally a lot better off without having to contribute productive time to help keep the store running.
I managed to gain 5 pounds while in Texas, probably the result of eating "normal" meals at Luby's (entree and two veggies, no bread, no soft drinks, no dessert), interspersed with lunches at Wendy's. I pretty much laid off the sweet stuff and typically ate only twice a day, but apparently what I did eat was enough to trigger fat storage.
It occurred to me last night, after I saw the backed up shower downstairs, that the problem might well lie in the fact that we had been gone for almost 10 days, and that without the normal flow of graywater into our septic system, the system pretty much froze solid. I went down to the evaporation lagoon this morning and it was covered with ice, which I think is normal for this time of year (it snowed a little while we were gone, but I am told the temperatures were well and truly frosty), and it was thick enough for a round of 16 gauge buckshot to merely nick the surface of the ice. The level of water in the shower pan last night indicated that there is some drainage going on, slowly, so I figure we ought to be okay as long as we don't pour a lot of water down the drain all at once. I hope.
Cheers...
