oceans of time

Some days I think I have too much stuff in my pockets and ought to clear out my jacket, backpack, heavy work jeans, etc.

And some days I see TAKE AMERICA BACK IN 2024 bumper stickers plastered on street signs within arm's reach of a reasonably tall person like myself, and I remember that a good portion of the stuff in my various pockets is FRAGILE packing stickers and WARNING: BULLSHIT stickers of decent size and durability.

*wanders off humming cheerfully*

I use Tuta.de for my email hosting and I've downloaded the Tuta app for my email client. It's set to not show images by default, just placeholders.

I get a lot of email from RPG sellers of various types. I get a RIDICULOUS amount of email from political organizations.

I do not always look at the Sender part of the message first, as the Tuta client uses a smaller font for the sender and other information than most senders specify for their default body text. Some of the senders use VERY LARGE text for an eye-grab at the top of their emails before going on to the regular lettering.

All of which is a roundabout way to say that for a few gloriously entertaining seconds I thought I had an email from the people at the Women's March that began with “WE ARE THE FURY OF THE STORM AND THE PITILESS WRATH OF ENDLESS WINTER.”

Yet again, the world I see out of the corner of my eye is way more entertaining than what's there when I look at it directly.

Turns out you can reopen a closed Etsy shop almost any time you want as long as you make sure to back it up with an active credit card and renew all your listings. I've closed the shop, contacted the colo place to cancel my subscription, and informed the City of Boston that I am no longer in business and will not be renewing my permit this year.

Anyone interested in jewelry from me, ask me about holiday or birthday gifts instead.

Considering shutting down my Etsy store. Haven't actually made jewelry in months (mostly I've been sewing instead), haven't made a sale in months, and since the Etsy store isn't in my legal name I have to have a DBA certificate, which means I have to have a business address, and since I rent an apartment I can't actually operate the business out of the apartment due to insurance issues (I checked with the landlord). Neither Boston nor the town I live in will let a business register with a PO box as their primary address so I have to pay monthly fees at a colocation space and that's expensive. It makes no sense to keep the Etsy store existing if I'm not actually making enough jewelry to need to sell any of it off.

If anyone has an alternative to colo that means I don't have to pay more per month than I actually ever sold (I made a profit for a while some time back but the colo space upped their prices and now there's nowhere in Boston that charges a reasonable price for just having their address rather than actually using their space), let me know.