Schrodinger's Cat

Wairarapa Times

I'm spending the week in Masterton to work at the Wairarapa Times Age, haven't finished any stories yet but have a bunch of starting points. Someone dumped 100kg(!) of dogshit next to a river, could have been a health hazard if it rained and washed downstream but it was reported to the council in time. Also the council are worried about smog from wood fires in winter, most of the firewood being sold isn't dried properly.

I'm also keeping busy with my CD making & Creative NZ application. My budget says the proposed North Island art gallery tour is going to lose $990 so that's the amount of funding I should ask for. A lot of the figures are just guesses though, but the spreadsheet's kind of fun to play with. If you alter a number somewhere the numbers further down change. Another budget I drew up says that in total from 1998-present my making albums has netted me a grand total loss of approximately $650.

The good news is that if I can sell another 80 or so discs I'll break even. I've been getting into emailing people on the net recently, trying to 'offload product'. I had an order for one copy of each album from the university of Waikato, and five copies of each from Eclipse Records in America, so that's 30 discs. That's progress...

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PS I know, I still haven't written about the latter part of my visit to Auckland. I'm just building up the suspense. And the week after next I've got a temporary job at the Kapiti Observer. All this travel is good, I was feeling cramped in Wellington for a while there. And I like the fact that we're starting to get some daylight again.