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> Still working on my son's Name afghan. Each 'name section' is 32 rows long.
> Figured out the name chart on my own. His name is done in variegated blues
> with a dark blue background, all in single crochet. He's pleased with it.
> Hopefully, I'll have it done by Christmas 2009.
>
> Also, working on putting together a knitted sampler of squares, rectangles,
> etc, of the sample pieces I've done over the years. It's now big enuf for to
> be an afghan. Done in shades of blue and green
>
> Butterfly (mainly lurker at this point in time)
>
>> Olwyn.Mary wrote:
>>>> Then I'm taking a break and sewing some to beef up my work wardrobe
>>>> before I go back to knitting, at which time I am going to do a cotton
>>>> sweater that I don't have the yarn for yet.
>>> Samantha!! I thought you worked from home. Have you changed jobs
>>> without telling us???????
>> (Cross-posting to alt.sewing and RCTS because I don't think I ever got
>> around to telling everybody there, either, and I might as well say it to
>> everybody all at once)
>> I still work part-time from home, but I periodically lose accounts and the
>> pay has finally dropped to the point where I can no longer afford to work
>> at what the new accounts want to pay me, so last year when I lost over
>> half my work (three separate people I was subbing for) all at once and
>> didn't feel like I could take another 30% pay cut after having taken a 40%
>> pay cut in 2004, I started looking for in-house jobs. After six months of
>> sending resumes, telephone interviews, and in-person interviews, I finally
>> found a full-time, in-house job 4 miles from my house with moderately
>> flexible scheduling (I have to put in 40 hours per week any time between
>> 8:45 am and 6 pm M through F -- no weekends, paid holidays, and a paid
>> vacation, which three things feel like heaven). I absolutely DETEST
>> getting up and going to work in the morning (that is, especially after I
>> have already done my part-time, at-home work) and being gone for that
>> long, and my little dog (who I might not have gotten if I had known that I
>> was going to end up going out to work two months after I got her) misses
>> me terribly while I'm gone, but if the job fairy had come down and given
>> me the best job I could have realistically gotten, she couldn't have found
>> anything better. But the schedule is grueling and after six months on the
>> job (I get a half-hour lunch break and several days a week I spend it
>> knitting because there isn't enough time to go anywhere or do anything) I
>> still haven't figured out how to pack a decent lunch and I still can't
>> keep my focus for 8 hours straight, but I am getting better.
>> It's still transcribing medical records, but instead of listening to audio
>> recordings all day, I transcribe from the doctors notes, cribbing from the
>> patient's previous visit note. This is TONS better than transcribing from
>> audio all day long, a lot more mentally stimulating, and a lot less
>> stressful on the old borderline RSI problems.
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> (Cross-posting to alt.sewing and RCTS because I don't think I ever got
> around to telling everybody there, either, and I might as well say it
> to everybody all at once)

> I still work part-time from home, but I periodically lose accounts and
> the pay has finally dropped to the point where I can no longer afford
> to work at what the new accounts want to pay me, so last year when I
> lost over half my work (three separate people I was subbing for) all
> at once and didn't feel like I could take another 30% pay cut after
> having taken a 40% pay cut in 2004, I started looking for in-house
> jobs. After six months of sending resumes, telephone interviews, and
> in-person interviews, I finally found a full-time, in-house job 4
> miles from my house with moderately flexible scheduling (I have to put
> in 40 hours per week any time between 8:45 am and 6 pm M through F --
> no weekends, paid holidays, and a paid vacation, which three things
> feel like heaven). I absolutely DETEST getting up and going to work
> in the morning (that is, especially after I have already done my
> part-time, at-home work) and being gone for that long, and my little
> dog (who I might not have gotten if I had known that I was going to
> end up going out to work two months after I got her) misses me
> terribly while I'm gone, but if the job fairy had come down and given
> me the best job I could have realistically gotten, she couldn't have
> found anything better. But the schedule is grueling and after six
> months on the job (I get a half-hour lunch break and several days a
> week I spend it knitting because there isn't enough time to go
> anywhere or do anything) I still haven't figured out how to pack a
> decent lunch and I still can't keep my focus for 8 hours straight, but
> I am getting better.
> It's still transcribing medical records, but instead of listening to
> audio recordings all day, I transcribe from the doctors notes,
> cribbing from the patient's previous visit note. This is TONS better
> than transcribing from audio all day long, a lot more mentally
> stimulating, and a lot less stressful on the old borderline RSI
> problems.

years down the line. I'll bomb that bridge when I get to it <g>

I had smaller feet <g>

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>> (Cross-posting to alt.sewing and RCTS because I don't think I ever got
>> around to telling everybody there, either, and I might as well say it
>> to everybody all at once)
>
> I removed the cross-post 'cause no one at the sewing group knows me and
> likely wouldn't care about knitting and work situation blathering.
>
>> I still work part-time from home, but I periodically lose accounts and
>> the pay has finally dropped to the point where I can no longer afford
>> to work at what the new accounts want to pay me, so last year when I
>> lost over half my work (three separate people I was subbing for) all
>> at once and didn't feel like I could take another 30% pay cut after
>> having taken a 40% pay cut in 2004, I started looking for in-house
>> jobs. After six months of sending resumes, telephone interviews, and
>> in-person interviews, I finally found a full-time, in-house job 4
>> miles from my house with moderately flexible scheduling (I have to put
>> in 40 hours per week any time between 8:45 am and 6 pm M through F --
>> no weekends, paid holidays, and a paid vacation, which three things
>> feel like heaven). I absolutely DETEST getting up and going to work
>> in the morning (that is, especially after I have already done my
>> part-time, at-home work) and being gone for that long, and my little
>> dog (who I might not have gotten if I had known that I was going to
>> end up going out to work two months after I got her) misses me
>> terribly while I'm gone, but if the job fairy had come down and given
>> me the best job I could have realistically gotten, she couldn't have
>> found anything better. But the schedule is grueling and after six
>> months on the job (I get a half-hour lunch break and several days a
>> week I spend it knitting because there isn't enough time to go
>> anywhere or do anything) I still haven't figured out how to pack a
>> decent lunch and I still can't keep my focus for 8 hours straight, but
>> I am getting better.
>> It's still transcribing medical records, but instead of listening to
>> audio recordings all day, I transcribe from the doctors notes,
>> cribbing from the patient's previous visit note. This is TONS better
>> than transcribing from audio all day long, a lot more mentally
>> stimulating, and a lot less stressful on the old borderline RSI
>> problems.
>
> Good for you!! My little independent transcription situation has taken
> major hits over the past couple years. In the past I've always had
> other clients make up the slack from losing one, but the last few times
> that just didn't happen, and there was no new interest either; the gods
> know I've been trying. I know that when a doctor's reimbursements
> decrease, as they have been doing since I started working in offices 24
> years ago, the first things that go are anything considered "luxuries",
> and in this case it was me. Fortunately, I'm not required to be
> bringing in enough money to pay the bills so I can do what I'm currently
> doing, and that's going to school to become a pharmacy tech. This has
> seriously cut into my knitting time this semester, but I manage that,
> too. I'll be finished with the required courses to start my externships
> this summer, and after this fall semester I'll be completely finished
> and licensed in California. I'm hoping to end up working in a hospital
> pharmacy or home infusion setting. It'll be back to regular hours, but
> I can live with that. I'm still harboring the delusion of going to
> pharmacy school after I take all the required courses, but that's a few
>
> On the knitting front, I've taken on a couple of challenges from Ravelry
> groups. One is the NaKniSweMoDo, the National Knit a Sweater a Month
> Dodecathon, with the goal of doing just that, completing a sweater a
> month for this year. So far I'm on track, with two finished and one on
> the needles with only one sleeve and then finishing to do. The other
> challenge is a lot easier, and that's knitting a pair of socks a month.
> Since I whipped out something like 25 pair in a 6-month period last year
> this isn't a problem. I'm currently working on my pair for March; I
> finished 2 pair in January and 1 in February. These would go quicker if
>
> The Other Kim
> kimmeratsoylentgreenfielddotcom
>
>

> Last evening, I took two hours to repair a shadecloth that was 30' x 40'.
> Some of the grommets had torn out. I was able, with my trusty Singer
> 111W155 machine to sew it all back together. The sun had deteriorated the
> thread mainly, and the cloth as well as the edging was in remarkably good
> conditions. I got to use my new grommett kit.
>
> What amazed me was that I went to my shop and found some fabric that I
> bought from Home Depot to make some skylight sun shades, and it was EXACTLY
> the fabric of the costlier sun shade. I know where I'll go for the sun
> shade material on my next project.
>
> Was nice to fix a big piece of material, and have it come out so good.
>
> Steve
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