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My office is too cold, had to move to the dining room to work last night and today.

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I must vent. Now.

DistinctiveFabric.com, Inc. is tanking (or so Josh and I think), but what the hell do we really know anyway? We’ve only been running this damned thing for four and half years now and barely with any involvement from its founder and our chairman, Adam. Guess this is what you get for putting a couple of first-timers in executive seats and a declining economy. Ironically enough, our sales have only been going up since last August, but our previous debt carried over, coupled with an inconsistent cash flow, just hasn’t weathered the dip in December as well as we’d hoped and planned for.

SolarHoster.com is failing before it even runs.

InfinityDrive.net is failing. Again.

GreenGurus.net…is all the above and more: I can’t even log on or into the damn site.

The baby is due any day now and we’re broke. Tristan wants to move back to Cali. I want to stay and I want to go. I wanted so much to birth Rivertribe finally.

Now all of my business ideas are crumbling. And I can’t get a job because either:

1. My credit is so bad they won’t hire me
1a. I’m overqualified on paper due to past employment
2. I never finished school and got a degree and the necessary experience
3. The economy sucks ass cause the rest of this country shares in some of my misery

I’ve lost hundreds of keyword domains I never should have bought in the first place.

I’m now thirty freaking years old and my life is miserable. Okay not really. I still fight and fight and fight for success. I have no idea of what drives me. I had hoped to figure that out with a whole lot more in life before having a child.

Now what? God only knows. Actually, I’m now giving serious thought to starting up a church. A fucking church. Jesus Christ. I must be insane.

Either through “Order of the Jedi” – I now own orderofthejedi.net and jedichurch.net
Or through “Moon Temple” – I now own moontemple.org and moonchurch.org

I’m fucking crazy. I’ve always known it. And I always see people thinking the same freaking thing, even if they deny it when asked.

Well, if I’m crazy I might as well build my own crazy house, heh?
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Update 1.15 10:50am: Feeling a might bit better now. Course, the wee hours of the night often leave me despairing more so than the light of day.

Today I finished the subfloor.

It came out nearly perfect, except for one block leveling form. I opted not to redo it as it doesn’t impact the floor’s integrity nor will it effect the finished look (though it looks funny now). I should start laying the flooring tomorrow and in the end, no one will ever know. Except us .

I also was happy to recycle the plastic bags the insulation came packaged in as additional vapor barrier protection, the original concrete floor I broke up I also reused in another project down by the river, as a rainwater runoff filter and barrier.  It helps sort some of the debris, soil and what not from the farm field above, before dumping into the river below, while retaining much (hopefully all) the embankments soil on the trail leading down to the river.

In addition, the insulation I’ve been installing throughout this room (ceiling, walls, subfloor) will greatly help reduce heat loss after it’s finishing, thereby reducing the heating needed (probably a natural gas heater).

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I’ve been working on various projects at the River on and off over the years. This particular job featured here was something I’ve been putting a few hours in here and there over the last few weeks.

Today I finished framing out the subfloor.

It’s been a fun project and a timely one as it’s given me something to focus my energy on instead of freaking out about DistinctiveFabric.com’s state of affairs. Plus, it’s fun work building floors, decks and similarly constructed projects.

This one is especially fun because its one of the last remaining projects on one massive project started over ten years ago and it’ll probably the last project I get to do at this property, potentially ever. Once I’m back in LA again I doubt I’ll have another opportunity to work there.

Anyway, today’s job finishing up the framing was one of the most grueling days back. I was up uber-early to readjust my sleeping schedule and the temperature while working was near freezing. But I still got it done and enjoyed the process and steps by which I worked.

Tomorrow or whenever next I work on it, will see some finishing touches to finish securing the framing, cleaning up, fastening the plastic vapor barrier, and laying out the insulation.

Then the real fun part begins with the installation of the finished floor: white pine tongue and groove flooring.

My primary source of income has recently dried up and am in great need of immediate employment. Require a net minimum of $2,800 per month in salary just to cover essentials for me, my partner and our baby due in two weeks.

Any leads anyone can share with me would be immensely appreciated!

Employment history below.
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EMPLOYMENT
Distinctivefabric.com, Inc. – Present
2079 E 15th St, #330, LA CA 90021

Chief Executive Officer
*Management of corporate affairs, taxes, corporate filings, license/permit renewals, etc.
*Oversee web development, product creation and launches, marketing campaigns, sustainability integration, etc.
*Excel in dynamic and fast-paced order fulfillment, Internet startup and management environments.

The Do LaB / Lightning In A Bottle Arts and Music Festival – Present
2023 Bay St, LA CA 90021

Senior Production Artist, Assistant Director of Sustainability
*Assist in design, building, installing, and transporting large-scale art installations and event productions
*Co-manage client-relations pre- and post-production
*Assist Director in greening company operations and country’s leading sustainable arts and music festival
*Co-manage 200+ paid and volunteer staff
*Excel in management and coordination of multi-tasking, high end installations and client-interfacing

Green Gurus, LLC – Present
2079 E 15th St, #330, LA CA 90021

Founder and Chief Executive Officer
*Manage team, clients, corporate affairs, marketing, web development, etc.
*Excel in dynamic and fast-paced Internet startup and management environments.

Rooftop Promotion: April 2003 – April 2004
Gardena, CA

Director of Media Relations
*Coordination of artist promotions through press and radio contacts
*Managed Filemaker database of press and radio contacts
*Excelled in multi-artist PR

Hidden River Adventure: August 1996 – November 2001
Monocacy, PA

General Manager
*Managed inventory, equipment, group bookings, ecotours, transportation, staff, maintenance
*Lead carpenter and builder of corporate offices
*Excelled in customer relations

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE
*Applications: Microsoft Office XP, Word and Excel; Apple OS X; Google Docs: Document, Presentation, Spreadsheets, Adwords, Adsense; Open Office, KOffice, The Gimp; Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver; QuarkXPress; Transmit, Fugu, Telnet Launcher, Filemaker, Drupal CMS, Plesk and cPanel; Abelton Live, Reason
*Languages: Basic UNIX, PHP, HTML/XHTML, CSS
*Browsers: Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera
*Social Networks, Utilities and Apps: Basecamp, Wiki, WordPress, Blogger, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Posterous, Facebook, Myspace, Tribe, LinkedIn, YouTube, Revver, Vimeo, Digg, Hugg, etc.

EDUCATION
Santa Monica Community College
Santa Monica, CA
Computer Science
Pursued completion of undergraduate degree

The Bradley Academy / Art Institute
York, PA
Multimedia
Pursued completion of undergraduate degree

I returned to the River yesterday for another day of work. I was happy to finally get to do some board and batten installation with some nice rough-cut cedar wood. The house I helped build there was covered entirely in this and it looks fantastic!

Now we’re covering a portion of the barn, our biggest building project on the property since the house, with the same material. Here’s a shot of the front (facing west), which was finished 2nd after the south side had been completed (I ran out of light so couldn’t get a shot from yesterday’s work):

It took me a few attempts before I got the rhythm and system down for measuring, cutting and hanging the batten but once I got it, I got it and was moving pretty smoothly, finishing the bulk of the batten pieces on the north side of the barn.

This was after a quick dig for Eileen’s Christmas tree:

Tomorrow, weather permitting, I’ll dissemble the scaffolding and resume work on the master office.

Work at the River has constant reminders from the old days. These boats specifically trigger ‘em today:

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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