getting there

i used to work with a lovely lady named elise at gap inc. there was a mostly all-girl crew who ran the day-to-day of the websites, and we were young and it was quite jolly...socially i mean, i quit that job less than a year and a half into it. it was the late 90s and we all dyed our hair different colors, mine was crayola box red and elise was usually blue and i think cindy was green. anyway elise runs a GREAT internet radio station called Indie Pop Rocks (http://www.somafm.com/) and i stream it all day long...in my "studio" over the powerbook speakers, so as not to violate any ascap fee music playing rules. so that's good.

the other good thing is that my replacement credit card terminal arrived and i set it up today and lo and behold, it works!!! i will ship the dud back tomorrow. i am pretty happy. the last irksome issue is the telephone. right now, if you call the shop number, Vonage will forward it to my cell phone. i was hopeful i'd be able to tap the broadband connection, or even split the credit card line, but i'm so afraid of messing up the terminal that i think that's out of the question. now, i have a handset with nothing to plug into, and a phone number with nowhere to go. great.

what else. i need to buy twine to tie up recycling. i am buying stuff for this store all the time. i also signed up for a store credit card. BAD, DANGEROUS PATH TO GO DOWN i know, i know, but i will try and keep it under control.

my darling pet cockroach, Pippi Jr, is still hanging out in the bathroom. why won't he get hungry and go away? i don't get it. it is humorous and gross, both.

Pippi the mannequin is out of the window and near the door now. i think that a girly outfit in the window automatically makes guys not look at the shop, and it has really nice things for guys i think, so i need to get them in the door.

the weather is nice so i am happy. it doesn't take much for a california girl. today was the quickest yet - i didn't notice i was there for 7+ hours at all.