Finally a decent amount of rain!

Old Man Winter has had mercy on us, and brought rain at least 3 times in the last month or so. The last episode involved almost an entire week of cloudy, damp weather, complete with fog and 2" of rain total. It has been lovely, though I could do without the cold. No riding when the high is 40F.

I've finally started working on my jewelry website. It won't have a database backend, because I can't find a free product that will let me feed multiple URLs off on the one database. For that matter, I can't find a free product that I can even decipher that is just a product DB and not the entire site + shopping cart rolled into one. I plan on having several sites, each targeted towards a different demographic, but there will be some overlap of products. Being able to manage those dynamically would be a boon, but it's a boon I think I'm going to have to pay someone to set up, and I can't afford that.

Depending on how you measure it, I did actually wind up in the black this year, on my own, for the first time in my life since having full scholarships in college. (I had been making up for the difference between what I needed and what I was bringing in with savings for a year and a half after moving out from sharing free living space with an acquaintance post-separation) I didn't pay for my health insurance this year but did pay for everything the insurance did not cover, which is substantial, as I did allergy shots throughout the year. There are three more vending events I hope to add next year, and those may enable me to pay for my own insurance as well.