November 20th, 1997

Working class hero

Well, I'm getting into the phone sales thing, the phrases you have to learn flow smoothly now, and I know what I'm saying to the customers. It's not like I haven't done it before, and I know I'm not as good as the people who've worked there for months, but I'm still amazed at how fast it came back to me. And even though I work all day, I still get more things done in the evening than I did when I was unemployed. Just getting a letter mailed or buy food used to be a major project, but those things feel smaller now that I'm doing something else all day. I guess you've all experienced that, and it's happened to me before, but it's still kind of a waking up experience...

Redoing the look of my homepage _again_. Partly as practice, and partly because I came across some real good Paint Shop Pro tutorials, on a tip from Ride Forever. I'm doing more or less all the graphics myself again, although I think they look better this time around. It'll still be real simple fare though, I don't believe much in fancy animations and javascript, as you might have gathered, and that also happens to be a convenient excuse not to learn that kind of stuff :). This page will have to serve as an example (although most of the fancy links won't work, I'm redoing the naming as well), the rest is currently being redone on my hard drive, and I'll put it up as soon as it's done.

Nothing much interesting to write about, emotion-wise, today. I feel good, and that's never very interesting in a journal, I think. I'll save the writing for when something wierd and/or wonderful happens again :). See you.