Random Flow of Thought

This entry may mean something or may mean nothing. As you read from the heading, this is a completely flow of the head directly into the fingers entry. I've neglected this lonely blog too long. It's time that I spend more quality time in my direction of write.


I'm not sure how many of you remember my entry regarding politicians. It was a random set of babbling, where I expressed my displeasure for the lack of responses I'd received - especially by one in particular- of my writings. Call me old fashion, but one a constituent writes a representative a letter, I believe that constituent deserves some type of response. Even, if it's just a letter template that says "Your representative has received your letter; Thank you for writing." Somehow, this courtesy has gone straight over the heads of Senator.

About 5 months ago, I called the Senators office to express my displeasure for being completely ignored- I'd sent them, I think, three E-mails and 3 hand written letters. I obviously knew I would not be able to speak directly with the Senator, nor was I interested in expressing my dissatisfaction directly to him. I did however speak with someone in his office that apologized for my experiences. Now, I guess I should preface this call, by explaining that I didn't yell, scream or bitch at the individual. I politely explained why I was dissatisfied and suggested ways they might alleviate the feeling of non-response (one in particular, was to implement an auto-response when they receive e-mail informing the individual who sent the message that they'd received their mail.

Now, let's fast forward to present day. Curious to see if they've improved their communication system, I sent an e-mail. The e-mail basically said that I had called 5 months ago with concerns about their level of response, and was wondering if they'd implemented any auto response system for E-mail, and overall, wanted to see if there was any improvement with responses. It then went on to say several other things and ended with "...a satisfied constituent." Do you think I heard anything back? If you answered no, then you're right. It's now been over a week...not only did I not receive any type of auto-response informing they'd receive my message, I didn't even receive an e-mail back from one fo the staff saying "we're still attempting to improve our systems".

You know. Not responding with one written letter, I can kind of understand. Not responding with the second, again, maybe it slipped through the cracks. But completely ignoring all of my communications, that's completely inexcusable. I know, some of you are saying to yourself, 'Arin, give it a rest. It's the government...' But, that's exactly the point. It is the government. And when I have a concern, I expect my concern to at least be acknowledged. After all, part of my tax dollars and vote is what got this person to where he is.

So, what am I going to do. I'm going to write another letter...

******All tpyos within ths radnom folw of thugoht can be balemd on my mind and nothing else :)

Momentum is Building

Though not yet making a profit- when and if I do, it will need to be on a bulk scale- but I can now say I'm a legit artist. I've just finished taking my first two 'real' orders for my work. One was for one dozen each of 6 different images and the other was for 200 post cards of a single image. Now mind you, I'm making about $.28 cents for each post card I sell, so 200 post cards isn't huge...but, I must say, it's pretty cool knowing that my photography will be accompanied by someones personal message to a friend or loved one.

The neglect of this poor blog...

So the tour went well. Instead of selling the food products -which I must still get rid of- I took advantage of my reserved space and sold dino cards (the game that my sister and father produced... see blog from, I think Novemeber or August of last year). Anyway, the sale was eventuful. At the eleventh hour, I threw together greeting cards eith photos I've taken around the New Meico area. They were a hit. I even made a contact with a woman, who I've since followed up with, who's intersted in buying them wholesale (I received my first order yesterday). And, though I won't make much of a fortune selling the cards, it's another thing keeping me busy while I now venture to sell the products to our former customers.

With little over two days to go

With less then two days to go, hours of hard work, and massive amounts of money invested... I just received notice that I would not be able to receive a temporary food permit! What does this mean exactly? Well, that I won't be able to sell the processed food product during the Studio Tour. A tour that brings in thousands - tens of thousands of people. And, it also means I'm stuck with thousands of dollars worth of product. I now need to creatively figure out how to get rid of all this stuff!!! As I've placed myself in a financial conundrum -That I'll now need to get myself out of- I'm going to have to sit for awhile and figure out what the next step will be. One thing I can say... Is I have no intention of staying the course. :)