Notes to self

[kiya]

Current and lapsed projects.



Writing-related

• Nonfiction
  
  • The OH book
    
  • Kemetic theology?
    
  • Opening the Lotus
  
  
• Fiction
  
  • The Devil's Dance graphic novel translation/rewrite
    
  • The Devil's Due edit (which should be consistent with rewrite)
    
  • The Night's Tale rework
    
  • The Otter and St. Jude
    
  • The fairy piece with the Js that needs a new title
    
  • The cyberpunk romance novel
  
  

Education-related:

• Continue training
  
• Misc private classes
  
• Consider formal instruction in useful things, e.g. music theory
  
• Apply to CHS

Work-related

• Sculpting
  
  • Get studio set up
    
  • Debug sculpture process
    
  • Build repetoire
    
  • Set up shop
  
  
• Work on website structure for artan_eter
  
• Liturgy services
  
• Business cards (people kept asking at Paganicon)

Personal

• Continue to raise awesome children
  
• Survive EMDR
  
• Mend the mendable
  
• Reconstruct habits

Religious

• Construct the Temple
  
• Continue to research sovereignty models
  
• Fucking calendars
  
• ... other things.

Miscellaneous amusements

• Work on the Storynexus game
  
• Set up garden
  
• Contemplate bees and/or chickens with whispercricket
  
• More music
  
• Play games

That should keep me busy for ... a decade or two.

Comments

Bidness cards

[donperros.livejournal.com]

Business cards I can help with, sort of.

Vistaprint offers free* double-sided business cards. (Free* means that you only pay shipping and handling, which I think ends up equalling the price of the non-free business cards with free** shipping. You're almost certainly going to choose free** shipping anyway, so this is okay. Free** means the un-expedited, nay, anti-expedited, crapulent shipping wherein they promise to try to get the package away from the angry weasels within a month of the time you order them, in order to give the package to the octopockles, whose job it is to give the package to the postman.)

The reason this is useful at all is:

Double-sided business cards don't have the obnoxious advertisement for Vistaprint on them that the single-sided (free* or otherwise) business cards do have on the reverse.

Checking retailmenot.com/view/vistaprint.com, I see that the current flavor of this promo seems to be:

Buy 250 Premium Business Cards For Only $10.00, Get 250 Free. Plus, Get Free Shipping With 500 Card Purchase.

This ends up being an acceptable price for business cards. It's not the best price possible, but it is the best price I've been able to find for a small run. It is significantly better, in both price and quality, than printing them yourself.

To rain on this parade of good news:

- Once you get business cards, no one actually seems to want to get them any more. I got this same promo and have given away approximately 20 business cards. I've ruined more than that pouring coffee on them, for example. Even after coffee-related mishaps and subtractions due to actually giving some out, I think I still have a lifetime supply.

- Expect Vistaprint to send you their "newsletter" at least daily, and also to resell anything you're foolish enough to tell them - which includes whatever you put on the business cards.

- Expect merciless upselling attempts during the checkout process.

All of that said, I like my fairly inexpensive business cards a lot.

Re: Bidness cards

[kiya]

I suspect that I might wind up, in the long run, with more business card throughput since I'll be, in theory, vending at craft fairs, and business cards are how people who have looked at your stuff assuage their guilt at not buying any of it... :}

Thank you for the product review and commentary!