Jordan took me out to breakfast this morning to Hobeys. Interesting place. It's a casino out in Sun Valley, considered to be the poorer section of Reno, but as Jordan says, it has a pleasant "topography" (spoken like a true cartographer, lol). three eggs, a ham steak, hash browns and toast for about $3.00. Biscuits and gravy for $1.75. I don't know how they do it. Simple food but they do a good job of it.
Afterwards, he went to work and I went and finished the packaging on the cookies for "Hillybilly Hotdogs". The lady who owns it is Karen. She lost her job in construction two years ago but was able to find a backer for her hot dog stand. Apparently she got some help from SCOR, which is a group of retired business people who volunteer to help and educate people just starting off in business. They were impressed with her business plan, tweaked it a bit, but most important, found her a backer. She is going to see if my cookies sell. She tried selling Otis Spunkmeyer cookies earlier this year but no one bought them. I guess if the cookies sell, they sell, if not, it was very nice of her to try. I'll stop by next week and see her.
Other than that, I worked on menus for my personal chef client for next week. I figure three weeks is enough time to be off. My knee is doing well and I have had no problem driving, although I am using Jordan's car not mine. I also contacted Top Hat Party Rentals and got them to email me a contract. I also talked with Mickie, the woman we are trying to get to waitress for us at the farm to table dinner (Mickie and one of her co-workers). I finished my Examiner.com article on Buckbean Brewing Company but about ten minutes after I published it, one of the guys wrote me back cause he found three or four mistakes. So I fixed them right away. Other than the mistakes, he liked the article, so that's good!
Even though I am making money cheffing and catering, I am going to need to find a steady job to supplement my income. I just don't make enough to pay the bills AND pay for the little bit of marketing I am doing as well as buying packaging materials and other necessities I can't really bill for. I start doing flu shot clinics in a couple of weeks so that will help, but I'll still have to look at other things. And unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your point of view), nursing pays way better than working as a chef. Kind of depressing.......
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