It's been a crazy kitten season. If you don't know, I'm an animal rescuer, primarily cats. Have been for about 11 years now. Kitten season starts in about February but peaks in April/May. We have had three pregnant mamas dumped on our doorstep this year, plus I had a kitten brought to me last Saturday that was thrown from a moving car on I-85. People suck. They suck royally.
So I had to stop doing camera stuff for a while for a couple of reasons. First, my computer is going downhill fast, and I just haven't had the money to replace it, and I didn't feel right asking H2 to give me another computer when he could sell it and make money. And money has been in very short supply the last few months.
We're closing the store. H2 has worked so hard to keep it open, but it just hasn't worked. Things went south when Verizon bought Alltel a few years ago and the second store we had worked so hard and spent so much money to open ended up having to close. (Long story for another time). After Verizon raped and pillaged Alltel, what was left was sold to an investor group who fought to keep the name but didn't do a very good job of running it, and customers fled in droves. In the meantime, where our original store was located was crumbling around us and our landlord was unwilling to fix the problems, so we moved...and that location has proven to be one of those "black holes"...you know them, every town has them. A commercial location that SHOULD be perfect for all sorts of business, but no business seems to be able to stay open more than a year or two at the most. So after a couple of years there we moved again, to our present location, which was completely unsuitable for a retail business, too small for our needs, and business went further downhill. Finally, we made the decision last month that this would be our last month there.
In the meantime, reason #2 is that I've been so busy with the animals that I haven't been able to do very much to help H2 with the business, and there hasn't even been that much in the way of cell phone repair stuff to do either. I get up early and I go to bed late, exhausted, to do it all over again. I look like hell most of the time, because I'm going flat out at 80 miles an hour, it seems like. And I'm DEFINITELY not feeling very sexy.
So if you've wondered where I've gotten to, there you go. I plugged the camera back in tonight on CW1, and just put it on my lava lamp, which I love to look at. It calms me to watch the wax warm, rise, cool, fall. I've always loved lava lamps, guess it's the old hippie in me. I tried to set up a second cam but my computer couldn't handle it and crashed. I barely got it to come back up. H2 has said I can bring my computer from the office home and set it up here, and since it also has a dual monitor card, I'll be able to keep my current setup. Plus, he gave me the Lamborghini.
The Lamborghini is an ASUS dual-core laptop that is Lamborghini yellow and officially branded with the Lamborghini logo. It's a nice, sleek little number that I've been coveting for years. I've actually talked him into taking it back, because he loves it too (and I just can't have it open around the cats), and instead he's giving me another laptop he's been using for training purposes which is also very nice. But it touched my heart that he was willing to give it to me. I guess it really is love.
At any rate, I'm kind of depressed to see how little participation there is on CW1 now. I had heard that at some point the owners of CW are planning on pulling CW1 down. I hate that. I hate it because I've been on and off for years now, and it seems to me that there's a market for CW1 if it were properly utilized. I can't be the only person out there who wants to be on cam but who isn't really interested in chatting very often, surely? I mean, CW2 is ok, but I just don't have the time to sit chatting with people all the time. And if I'm in front of the computer, and I hear that little ding, I feel guilty if I don't go and say hi, and then I get sucked into a conversation when I should be doing something else...and you get the idea. It's kinda like Facebook...it can be fun but it's a time-eater, and time is a really precious commodity to me.
Plus, back when there was only CW1, I made more money doing that...I pretty much consistently made my ten bucks on each cam every month, which helped buy pet food for the animals. After the first month of CW2, my income went to almost nil. Average "tip" was 20 cents. And you're expected to tip back, and I just can't afford to.
I haven't been able to work on ImLive either, which sucks. I'm just too tired at night. I haven't event tried, I just don't even have the energy to put the makeup on and stay up late. I don't know why I'm up tonight, I'm exhausted, but I just couldn't sleep.
So that's pretty much what's been going on with me. Hope things are better with you, and that you've been having fun on cam. I miss my friends I have made on CW2, but I just don't have time to visit right now. Hope you all understand.
Viddy
