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Elaine and Geoff.  She's a work at home creative jeweler.  I'm a drive to work destructive testing and new product engineering technician.   Elaine works for several jewelry shops in town.   I work in town repairing and/or redesigning old railroad signalling circuitry.   When time permits, we buy precious and semi-precious stones and mount them in our own designs to sell on the Internet or on consignment.   Currently there's too much demand from customers to spend time in more creative endeavors.  Some day, though, when I've destroyed too many new designs in the railroad signal electronics workplace and lack the creative ability to come up with new ideas or suggestions,  we'll collaborate on new jewelry designs when my forced retirement takes place.   Either this or maybe go to truck driving school and hit the road as a husband-wife over the road team.   Maybe create new ways to beat traffic, dodge weight scales and speed traps when not parked at home as often as possible. Then again, maybe not.   No, make that ABSOLUTELY not !!!   Selling diamond and emerald studded coprolite on street corners would be a much more satisfying lifestyle.  Meanwhile, we'll probably stick to the more mundane ways of making a living.  Afterwards, who knows?  You can sell almost anything on eBay today.  There just might be a market for muti-faceted dinosaur turd paper weights and door stops at some time in the world gone very weird future. 

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