Hitting the On-Ramp?

Well, I spent some time on the phone today with a graphic design/layout specialist and I am excited about it. He is going to work on some logo designs for me as well as the cover layout and basic layout plan for the City Streets line. He wants to broaden his experience and that motivation makes him willing to accept my abysmal pay as well as the abysmal rates of the RPG industry (which, right now, are probably higher than mine). Don't you love hardcore gamers that want to try out something in the gaming industry even though they could make much more money doing something else? Yeah, trying to decide if I want to call him and say, "Wait! Don't be suckered into this like I was!" No, I wasn't really suckered into this, but was anyone in this industry really? The first thing you hear when thinking about doing something involving RPGs is, "The pay is crap, you'll make a lot more doing whatever you are doing now."

What else did I do today? Hmm, had a talk with the cable company about the fact that the internet was out. Turns out that the work on the major road outside our neighborhood "disconnected" cable to the entire neighborhood. Once it was fixed I was getting ready to head out to pick the kids up and then the whole get the homework done before soccer thing started. DD pointed out that the only "kid" not playing soccer tonight was DS#3 because he can't even walk yet. This from a girl that can't decide if the running or the sitting on the bench are the most fun parts of soccer (right now it is sitting on the bench--why do I drive these extra miles and coach?). Tonight I didn't coach for her, I went with the older boys to try to talk to their coaches and team managers. Team manager for DS#2 was sick so couldn't go, the team manager for DS#1 was a no-show (not a surprise, but that is a frustration for another time). Pretty much I got to hang out in the cold and wind for nothing. I mean, I could have been running around with 5-year-olds playing soccer. Hmmm, maybe it wasn't a COMPLETE loss...