Starting to get a little hectic

Wow, today was a full day! It's been a while since I did so much work, and some of it was actual paying jobs! Here's some of what I did:

- Three newspaper ads for Dee's Photo (local camera shop)...paying job, of course!
- Finished uniform designs for Vantage Multisport (triathlon club in Monroe), got approval, burned files to CD, mailed CD with instructions to Voler, a uniform manufacturer somewhere in Cal-li-forn-niy-aaaaaa. Deposited their check.
- Sent proof of uniform design revisions to president of the Shreveport Bicycle Club (a freebie, though I do get a jersey).
- Finished, got approval, and emailed layouts for a Christmas card to a printer for Mercy Flight, a medical helicopter company in Buffalo, New York....check's on the way!
- Made revisions today on a T-shirt design for a Thanksgving Day run next week that I turned in yesterday. Promoter decided to stick with the original layout and colors (six of them) after all that, and I'm fine with that. I liked the original better, too. I'm trading out with them for a pair of high-end Asics running shoes. They're getting the better deal, but I need some shoes!
- Delivered a job for a guy who builds pool cues. It was printouts of his logo on adhesive translucent paper that he could apply to the base of the cues and then laquer over them. They came out pretty good. I got paid next to nothing but it was a fun job to do. The guy used to own a company that made these high-quality cue sticks (and I did some design work for him way back when) but he retired and got out of it. However, he had tons of these unfinished cue sticks lying around in storage and he decided to finish them and sell them. Maybe I should get one from him?

Anyway, that was just today! It kept me on my toes, that's for sure. It's been a while since I was that busy and it was fun to be jumping around like that....wouldn't want to do that every day but 2-3 days a week would be fine. The rest of this week will be more holiday ads for the camera shop, a couple of small ads for a local masseuse (already more trouble than it's worth), and maybe get the uniform designs for the local bike club and my racing team out by week's end.

I also have to get my head in the game about leaving for Oz this Sunday. I'll begin to pack a bit tomorrow and gather more of what I need to take with me. Still have to get all the needed email and website addresses together to print out so I can refer to them when I'm online Down Under.

I also put in a half-hour run at Stoner late this afternoon. It got dark pretty quick and I exited the woods at twilight, and the mosquitoes were biting! Apparently the bit of warm weather we've had has awaken a number of the eggs and the pests thought it was spring! Well, good....that's more of them dead before next spring when the cold snap hits later on. I do one more run tomorrow evening at the track at Bossier High School, then I take Thursday and Friday off before the half-marathon (13.4 miles) trail run at Eddy Jones Park on Saturday. I'm more interested in seeing how sore I'll be Sunday and Monday than in how the run turns out! If I don't turn an ankle then I'll be fine.