Surprisingly, today was a very good day. Not at first; but there was shade and then there were lake breezes, and that make it survivable after an initial near-bout with heatstroke.
But that's not what I mean. What I mean is at this point, for the entire month of August, I am making more per hour busking than I did per hour when first starting at Microsoft. (And that Microsoft number assumes a cakelike assumption of a 40-hour workweek. Factor in the 50-hour reality and I'm now making a lot more.)
Of course, that ignores inflation. Also, it disregards that I work at this about six hours a week. But I am also told that there are current contract positions at Microsoft which pay less per hour than I made today at Juanita Bay.
Also, the vendors gave me cupcakes and flowers, which is always crazy awesome. And I arranged the new mandolin song ("Let Me Help") into a performable interim version this morning and performed it, if suboptimally, a few times today. People seem to like it. Yay!
But that's not what I mean. What I mean is at this point, for the entire month of August, I am making more per hour busking than I did per hour when first starting at Microsoft. (And that Microsoft number assumes a cakelike assumption of a 40-hour workweek. Factor in the 50-hour reality and I'm now making a lot more.)
Of course, that ignores inflation. Also, it disregards that I work at this about six hours a week. But I am also told that there are current contract positions at Microsoft which pay less per hour than I made today at Juanita Bay.
Also, the vendors gave me cupcakes and flowers, which is always crazy awesome. And I arranged the new mandolin song ("Let Me Help") into a performable interim version this morning and performed it, if suboptimally, a few times today. People seem to like it. Yay!
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Date: 2008-08-16 03:49 pm (UTC)improvements via breeze & shade = WOO
making more than a M$ 50hr week = WAY WOO
making more than a M$ 40hr week = INDUSTRIAL WOO!
cupcakes and flowers given free = BONUS :)
sounds like a splendiferous day inspite of the weather impingements!
bb :)
who wilted in said heat!
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Date: 2008-08-16 05:32 pm (UTC)But still.
I assure you I am as surprised as anyone. If not more. ^_^
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Date: 2008-08-16 07:54 pm (UTC)and even if you weren't surprised, it is STILL a *WOO* :)
bb
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Date: 2008-08-16 08:18 pm (UTC)