I don’t know why it’s called cat grass – Eva’s the only one who eats it.
Awful, awful day today. I have a feeling I’m standing on the edge of learning a really expensive lesson. If I do learn it, I will be passing on my findings to every single person I meet. I may even get t-shirts made to spread the word.
What you’re looking at is, basically, my company. Quite shocking that if the table caught fire whilst I was taking this photo, I’d be utterly screwed!
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Business is hard. I’ve enjoyed working for other companies as it allows me a level of separation from things like tax, legal issues and insurance so that I can concentrate on doing what I do best. Considering the current climate, job hunting has become very competitive, especially where PHP is concerned – you can get a lite version of my skillset for so much less than I’m willing to work for, that not even I’d employ me right now! This, and many other things, has lead me to take the plunge and start my own company consulting and developing applications (purposefully avoiding using the word “solutions”) for people who are serious about the web.
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I’ve been out of the house for about 16 hours today, so I haven’t really had time to point my camera at anything. Playing with Amelie and watching her and Eva interact, she’s getting so big. Looking at when we first got her, she’s huge! She has a great personality, too.
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The prospect of not having a job is quite stressful. The whole leading-up-to-getting-married is getting a little stressful and is only being exacerbated by the prospect of not having a regular income! Sadly (for me!), this all amounts to not really having a lot of time to post any pictures recently. I’ve been pulling late nights working on freelance and looking for jobs and trying to squeeze pennies out of my bank account! It’s not fun.
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I don’t read the news. I don’t know anything about economics and I don’t know anything about US politics. I couldn’t pick out Joe Biden in a line-up and the only thing that frustrates me about the recession is that the media has turned it into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Until yesterday, I haven’t really been affected by the current financial crisis. Sure, I noticed the price of stuff going up, but we switched our energy supplier and petrol appears to have lost about 20p a litre so it’s been a relative plateau for me – my funds have just leaned more towards food shopping than energy/fuel. Yesterday, however, it seems that the pending recession (I don’t even know if we’re actually in a recession now – we could be!) took its toll on the awesome agency I work for. It wouldn’t be fair of me to go into details of the whys and wherefores (largely because it’d be mostly speculation), but the upshot is that in a month today, I’ll be jobless.
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