Oy...

Been rather busy lately. I've been splitting my time between turning pens, tracking down orders I've placed (a story in and of itself, let me tell you) and getting the new store put together (which can be found by clicking here...excuse the lame plug). Thought I'd pop over here and do something non-commercial for a few minutes.

On a positive note, I've received a shipment of interesting wood that I bought online. So far, however, I've only managed to turn one piece of Macadamia nut and one piece of Black Palm. Both are very beautiful specimens. The Black Palm pen came out beautifully. The Macadamia Nut pen, looked really nice, but my boneheaded self had two of the bushings confused and more or less ruined the pen. Needless to say, however, I've got plenty of blanks to turn now.

I've spent the better part of two evenings trying to set keywords and meta tags on all of my pens in the store in hopes of getting the search engine gods to smile upon me. Next up is writing descriptions for all the pens...which I've already started and stopped doing about five hundred billion times now. After all, what's to really describe? It's a pen. It writes. There's a picture of it that you can look at if you so desire. It isn't like it takes batteries and does something different than any other pen, so how much can you describe without sounding like a loon? My thinking is that I'd almost rather have no description than have someone read the same crap over and over again because I can't come up with something witty and unique eleventy-one times. Not to mention that I'll have to describe every new pen from now on and you catch the feeling that prompted the title of this post. Maybe one day I'll be rich and famous and can hire someone to do the marketing while I do the pen turning.

And poor Amy is probably regretting ever buying a digital camera at this point. She's been my professional photographer and I'm sure she probably never wants to see another pen again. Between trying to get the perfect placement and then the editing and resizing needed, I'm surprised she hasn't gone on strike.

Sorry...didn't mean to start a bitch fest there. I'm actually having a blast, but would enjoy it much more if there wasn't a load of administrative BS to go along with it. But I suppose that one has to deal with the less enjoyable parts of the process that support the parts that make it all fun.