back at ebay...

Well, the truck blew it's clutch, and it looks like I won't be courier driving for a few days. I'm trying to think of it as a little mini-vacation. To be blunt, I needed a break from it...

but I'm taking the opportunity to list some things on ebay...

things like this...



A little Murano glass squirrel... I've seen a few of them over the years, but this is the only one with those lines of bubbles in the glass, and gold flecks... most are silver. Or at least the ones I've seen...



And then we have to start getting the Christmas stuff going... after all, if you're ordering it through the mail, it's best to get it bought now... the weeks before actual Christmas are hideous for the post office. These are Fitz & Floyd, Damask Christmas, still in the origional box. Circa 1995...

That's just a couple of things... There's going to be a bunch more.

And I really should get back to listing...

random thoughts...

Got up at 4:30 AM, and couldn't get back to sleep, so here I am... figured I would drop in here.

Latest delivery story... can't tell you the name of anybody, that's client information, but there's this place I have to deliver too. They're accountants, they do the books for some of the biggest companies in the area. So once a week, all the paper work is delivered to them from the factories and production offices, then later all that paperwork is delivered back... Pretty standard for a courier, and no big deal.

So you get to this office with 15 file boxes that weigh about 50 pounds each. You put four on your 2-wheeler. You wrestle your way through the door that wants to slam shut on you.

You are immediately confronted with a reception desk that's covered with dust and has never been used. You look around, to your right is a big conference room that has never been used. To your left there is a chair and a plant. A dead plant. Three stalks sticking out of a pot, and a circle of brown leaves on the carpet. No one in sight.

You call out "Hello"

From a half open door, someone yells, "We're back here"

So you manuver your way around the inconvienently placed and totally useless desk and go through the door.

There's a rather sad looking office, with 8 women who've just stopped caring.

None of them under 200 pounds. None of them have done their hair or make-up. They're all wearing polyester stretch pants and old t-shirts.

One looks at you and says - "they go over there" and kind of motions with her head. you assume that she means the table against the wall, because that's the only table that doesn't have dust on it.

So you start hauling in boxes, despite doors that want to slam on you, and indifferent employees who certainly aren't going to go to any effort to be of assistance.

Then you ask... "who signs for this?"

All of the women look around at each other, totally silent mind you, until one rolls her eyes and actually stands up and just looks at you. So you walk across the office, because it's obvious she's not moving an inch, and she signs the ticket. Then you leave.

This is my job.

great, huh?

I've got to find something else soon...

Wow, I haven't kept up with this blog at all, have I?

Still selling on ebay, sporadically now, and still selling at Forrests Antiques and more... but I have a new job as an industrial courier, and that's really a full time job, so between all of them, I'm just too tired to blog!

Anyway, I don't much like the courier job, but it's cash, and ultimately it's a disposable job. I can quit it when I find something I like better. I have to use my own truck, and buy my own gas... so while the money at first looks good, when you figure in the wear and tear and the cost... you're not really doing that great. I have to find something better soon. And you're considered an independent contractor, so you have to pay this huge tax rate. The IRS doesn't seem to like people who aren't corporate drones...

The people I deliver to are nice sometimes, and total morons at other times... in other words, they're just people, and that's how people are.

Not much of a post, but I thought I'd check in... and I'm going to try to write more soon. Maybe tell some of my adventures... (I'm collecting lots of strange stories as I drive all over Dallas/Ft. Worth... )

hello... been a while...

I've been writing to people on one of my yahoo groups, and between that and keeping listings going on ebay, it's sometimes very difficult to remember to blog... and then the last few posts were kind of bitter...

things have actually been going ok. There are three deer skins listed... going for a good price, which I didn't really expect... ebay constantly surprises me... Had some vintage cashmere yarn... dating to about the 50's, and some knitter snapped it up... that was a surprise to me too...

Only goes to show you, no matter what it is, just because I can't figure out what to do with it, doesn't mean somebody else can't.

some china on right now... and some 1 to 2 yard pieces of novelty fabric. That always sells decent, there are a lot of quilters and crafters out there... But it always surprises me how much of it goes to buyers in Japan, especially the older vintage pieces that you find at estate sales that have been in storage for 30 years...

I guess I'll stop this rambling post.

Later, and the link to the ebay store is on your right... somewhere...

not much happening really...

storms and thunder everywhere...

been a really strange week in Texas... temps getting up to the 90's and big ole thunderstorms that make your head ache...

nothing too much happening though.

Ebay's doing what ebay does, I'm selling really well at the flea market... sold two complete sets of china... Ka CHING

and I thought that the entire house was going to blow down a few minutes ago, but it seems to have moved on to Dallas.

Nothing to really post about, but I did want to keep my hand in here.

Later...

cats in heaven...

Well we bought a new chair for the bedroom, a vintage platform rocker to replace the big fake leather monstosity that was lurking in the corner preparing to attack us all...

Now, I managed to get the old chair out by myself... which is more of an accomplishment than you could possibly know... and I got it on the back patio...

The cat is in heaven. Lots of sunshine and an overstuffed chair to sit in. I've never seen that cat happier... don't know how he'll react when I get that chair up to the front curb, because it's really not in any kind of shape to sell at the flea market...

I've gotten quite picky about what I'm willing to take to the store.

So there's this chair...

I got it for two bucks at a yard sale. It's shaped like a giant hand and you sit in it...

It's so cheezy that it's cool.

But it desperately needed cleaning... and after I clean it, I can take it to the flea market and get about 40 bucks for it...

So I sit it in the car port, because it's not coming into the house 1) in that condition and 2) despite the fact that it's so cheezy it's cool, it's also green and I hate green and it's just not coming in my house...

anyway, at high noon, somebody drove up in their pick-up truck, jumped out, and stole it.

I was mad for about 10 seconds. But then I started laughing...

I figure God will forgive them for being a thief, but having appalling taste is a condition that is impossible to overcome...

sometimes the world depresses me....

Yesterday somebody decided to shoot up VA TECH.

Don't know any of the details yet... just know that he was a young asian guy... I'm sure we'll all be hearing all the gory minutae over the next few days...

there's a real problem in the world when certain citizens decide that shooting 20 or 30 people is a viable option... but I don't know what to do about it.

came to the blog to post about my ebay stuff, but it doesn't seem appropriate right now... If you want to see what's listed, check out the store link...

I'm going to go have some coffee...

great day today...

Beautiful outside, and I've been out working in the garden all morning... guess I'll try to ebay some of these iris since they're trying to take over the place... but I'll worry about that later...

This morning I had a buyer who bought some stuff, then when I went to print that label it turns out that the Post Office won't ship it because the city name is wrong... they suggest the proper name, and I've sent an email to the buyer, but I guess I'll end up trusting what the PO says... they should know... but it could be that the Zip is wrong... so I don't want to just sent it out there willy-nilly... And of course, I'm sitting here with a packed box. I hate paid for stuff sitting here...

Right now I'm wasting time blogging, should be outside in this great weather... We don't get a lot of it in this part of the world. Within a month, it'll be so unbearably hot, nobody will want to leave the house...