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| 05/05/2008: "Bad news and good news"
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Where does the time go? This week I was supposed to churn out several thousand words about someone else's eBay auction, as was cited and linked a couple of entries down. We'll have to play a serious game of catchup to reach that goal, but who knows-- it may yet happen. For now, it's 9:30 PM and I'm tired out by the demands of Spring, which has finally arrived for real in the Pacific Northwest. Were two separate veggie gardens too much to tackle after all? Well, we'll see...
Not to mention that my land-dude at the studio just sprang a 120% rent increase-- what timing, given current macro-economic trends! The upshot is that we'll be forced to downsize radically: I currently rent two different rooms in the building, one about twice the size of the other. The smaller room is devoted to nitty-gritty flute work such as drilling, sawing, sanding, etc., while the larger one is for photography, customer reception, and overflow storage. Since the nitty-gritty grinding room takes priority and I can't afford both at the newly outrageous rates, we'll be forced to give up the larger room-- which merely entails moving about 75% of my 15-year accumulation of Stuff out of the building by the end of May.
Besides the trauma of such a massive reorganization, probably the worst aspect of this new reality is the loss of a dedicated photography area-- a big problem, since imagery is so important to this (har) business model.
Well, we'll figure it out! You may soon see new flute photos with a background of '70s shag carpet, mossy, dandelion-infested backyards, grimy alleyways, kitchen cabinets or-- ? Come to think of it, that'd bring us more in line with typical bamboo-flute photos featured on the internet. The playing field is being leveled!
But hey: there's supposed to be some good news in this entry too. Hmmmm... got it: the good news is that Change is Good, and surely such upheaval will lead to a long-overdue systemic tweaking of this site's overall structure and presentation, including new audio and video! Riiiiighhht.
After all, we'll have to do something to compensate for those shag-carpet-backed flute photos. --r.
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