Archive for August, 2005

On Your Mark. Get Set. GO!!!

Aug 22nd

Posted by Ash in Ash

Well, I’ve done it… I’ve taken the plunge, and started my own web design business: AshTree Web Design! After 7 years of being out of the work force I feel I’m ready to jump back in, and with Morgan in school until almost 3 pm I now have the time to commit to such an endeavor. It is especially sweet that I am able to work from my own home, and I won’t have to deal with anymore do-nothing coworkers.

One of my biggest pet peeves while working outside of the home was coworkers who were lazy and/or neglectful of how they performed their job. IMHO… If you’re not going to even try to do something right the first time, then don’t do it at all, and don’t expect someone else to do the work you’re supposed to be doing in the first place! How you do your job, whether you’re a mere sanitation worker, or the President of the United States, speaks volumes about your character. Working for (and I guess with) myself I no longer have to worry about dealing with coworkers who are slackers anymore. Yaaaay!!!

I got my very first paying client (a contemporary artist) last week, and I already have a second, and possibly a third, one lined up. After 10+ years of experience designing and creating websites for personal, or charitable, purposes it’s so nice to finally get paid for it.

I have Pookey & Carolyn (who I met through KittiCo) to thank for giving me the confidence to start my own web design business. Pookey was always pointing out that I can design web pages better than half the web design people out there today, and that it would be a good direction for me to go career-wise. Carolyn was truly instrumental in giving me that last final push to get me to venture into starting my own business, and a new chapter in my life.

So, if you’re looking for someone to design a website for you, or redesign an existing one, give me a call.

The Cost Of War…

Aug 18th

Posted by Ash in Ash

Instead of wasting all this money on such a senseless war we could have fully funded GLOBAL anti-hunger efforts for 7 years!!! Just think… Tonight there are children in this world going to bed hungry, including children right here in America, all so Bush & his cronies can make a quick buck!!!

It’s a fact that Bush lied to congress, the entire American public, and the rest of the world during his January 28th 2003 state of the union address when he made his claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. What really pisses me off is: Clinton got a blow job from Monica Lewinski (a fully consenting adult), lied when he was asked about it (IMHO: Something he should have NEVER had to answer to the American public for in the first place!!! The only person he needed to answer to for it was his wife.), and got impeached for it. Yet, when Bush knowingly lies to the whole world to justifying starting the war with Iraq, killing and maiming millions of people, then lies some more to cover it up the original lie, nothing is ever done to him!!! Sad!!!

So, remember:

Blow job + Lies = Impeachment

Starting a war that kills millions + Lies = Re-election

First Week Back…

Aug 12th

Posted by Ash in Morgan

Kids on a school buslike rocket Morgan made it through his first whole week at school, and is adjusting to his new school quite nicely… Though it is taking him a lot longer to get used to going to bed early again. *sigh* At least he’s happy to be back at school, and loves going there.

<rant> IMHO… It is so important that children have a mostly (there’s always events that sucks in everybody’s life) positive experience in their schooling. One bad teacher, or bully, can make a place that should be safe, fun & challenging into an awful place to be. It’s a parent’s job to be aware of the things going on at school, pay attention to any change in their child’s personality, and to nip any problems in the bud before they become worse. Once minor problems develop into major ones they can adversely affect the rest of your child’s education from then on. A child should look forward & enjoy going to school, not dread it. </rant>

We’ve been lucky that Morgan has had a good experience with school so far, and hopefully he won’t ever have a bad one (knock on wood), or at least one that can’t be fixed… Though, with him having autism I worry about his future all the time anyway; especially when he is not with me or Pookey, but that’s life.