Hahaha!
I think this is awesome.
Yes, I loathed him with the Canucks [and loathed the Canucks in general].
Yes, I thought he should have been kicked out of the NHL for life for what he did to Moore.
Yes, this makes me a bit of a hypocrite.
But I'm totally going to buy his Red Wings jersey when it comes out and I'm totally going to wear it to Vancouver.
Friday, March 02, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
I'm tired, but cannot sleep...
So it's 5:13am on Friday. I got into bed at 9pm last night, read for hour, turned out the light and have managed to not get more than a two or three hours of sleep. My mind just won't stop going...
Yesterday started very early [for me]. I got up at 6am so I could be into work and carpool to the Annual General Meeting with Brian and John. Aside from the watery orange juice and coffee, things went well. The Davison Country Club weathered a very brief but intense blizzard or two. It was interesting to hear about the company as a whole, too. I'm usually bored with such minutia as was explained yesterday, but given the light of the economy these days and my love of work, it was fairly interesting as a whole.
After that, it seemed like a typical bear of a day. For this time of the year. [I'm talking hybernation, of course.] The work on my desk was limited to new MDOT TEA [Michigan Department of Transportation - Transportation Enhancement Application] grant and a SHPO [State Historic Preservation Office] application. I was basically wrapping up what I could do on them at around 3:30, but, as luck would have it, that's when things started getting interesting. Doug came up and told me that a client wanted a new layout for a cycling/pedestrian trail project we're doing in Flint. It's gotta be done ASAP and it's going to a lot of rather important people so it's gotta look good. Not a problem. It needs to go out by the end of the day on Friday, but with 2.5 - 3 hours left to work yesterday, I figured I could get a good portion [if not all] of the work done right then...
Boy was I wrong.
When last I saw the CAD file--mercilessly hacked, cut/copy/pasted, drawn across, frozen, unfrozen, blocked, exploded and edited--everything was the way it should have been. I even made a couple PDFs to send in with the TEA grant for the project last week. Between then and now, the file was a completely different beast. At first, I didn't realize it. I went straight to a new layout page and started setting up a plot. But then Doug swung by my desk to tell me something and pointed out that something was awry. The new creek was somehow flowing through a bunch of MCC buildings. Easy to fix. Until I started noticing all the other things that were wrong and--as they started to pile up--not so easy to fix. I'm not sure if it was out recent switch to the latest version of AutoCAD which is not backwards compatible with the previous version, the involvement of some additional surverying work and plotting that was done by someone else, my funky and not entirely competent AutoCAD skills [especially since the last upgrade--folks, if you thought the previous versions of AutoCAD were laborious, confusing and unintuitive, you have NOT used AutoCAD 2007] or [most likely] a combination of all of the above, but whatever the case after two hours it was obvious that some things were completely gone, some just moved, some perfectly fine, and some looked as if they'd been replaced with older, obsolete versions I'd worked on weeks and weeks ago. It's a mess and I'm a bit worried about getting it sorted out in time to get some of quality produced.
It's safe to say that by 5pm I was a tad panicked and stressed. And the ladies across from me in Marketing had it even worse. They were putting together a qualifications package for a new project. The folks who wanted it, wanted it to be sent out that evening via email, so the girls were rushing to make sure that happened. Like me, however, they ran into some issues with files and things not working out the way they had planned. They didn't have my extra day though. In the end, they had a PDF put together to send out that was simply too big. But it still needed to go out immediately and unfortunately the pressure got a little too high, people got upset and the decision was made to call it an evening, take a break and tackle it first thing in the morning.
Well, having had the experiences I've had in graduate school, the 'survival instinct' started to kick in at that point. Once things had settled and most people had calmed down and gone home, I switched desks and started to pile through PDFs, documents and our friend Acrobat Distiller 8. I'd mentioned this process earlier in the day, but they explained to me that they'd run into issues with the CorelDraw created PDFs and were short on time. That led to our other way of creating PDFs which, unfortunately, isn't light on the memory and tricky with quality control leading to the decision to remove the images and graphics all together. [This was the point where there were all sorts of people there at the end of the day, all trying to make sure it went smoothly and the pressure got out of hand.] I wasn't doing anything that the previous person didn't know how to do, nor was I doing it in a revolutionary way [rather the opposite, actually, because I was still there until 7pm and it still wasn't 100% perfect]. I was merely doing it without the pressure or constraints they'd had--which changes everything.
I think my efforts got the job done, impressed people and, hopefully, eleminated the most of the stress that went with it. Since then, my minds been going non-stop. Everything from Vancouver to Flint to work to life to love to this awesome idea for a Che Guevara/office culture knock-off poster with his unforgettable image and the phrase "Cube Libre!" across the top. It'd do remarkably well, I think.
So I find myself sitting here in the dark, thinking of all the times I've tried to help in similar situations throughout my life--particularly in graduate school and most particularly very recently--and how, if history had any bearing or inclination towards repeating as it has in all the other situations, instead of coming up with a successful solution, I should have found some way to nuke the computer I was on, invalidate all the software liscences, crash the server and erradicate the company's S:\ drive.
I'm thinking of why I react to some things with what seems like limitless optimism, grace and talent, while my reaction to others is just the opposite. Pessimistic, hurtful and problematic.
Thinking of why I react to some things and not others.
Yesterday started very early [for me]. I got up at 6am so I could be into work and carpool to the Annual General Meeting with Brian and John. Aside from the watery orange juice and coffee, things went well. The Davison Country Club weathered a very brief but intense blizzard or two. It was interesting to hear about the company as a whole, too. I'm usually bored with such minutia as was explained yesterday, but given the light of the economy these days and my love of work, it was fairly interesting as a whole.
After that, it seemed like a typical bear of a day. For this time of the year. [I'm talking hybernation, of course.] The work on my desk was limited to new MDOT TEA [Michigan Department of Transportation - Transportation Enhancement Application] grant and a SHPO [State Historic Preservation Office] application. I was basically wrapping up what I could do on them at around 3:30, but, as luck would have it, that's when things started getting interesting. Doug came up and told me that a client wanted a new layout for a cycling/pedestrian trail project we're doing in Flint. It's gotta be done ASAP and it's going to a lot of rather important people so it's gotta look good. Not a problem. It needs to go out by the end of the day on Friday, but with 2.5 - 3 hours left to work yesterday, I figured I could get a good portion [if not all] of the work done right then...
Boy was I wrong.
When last I saw the CAD file--mercilessly hacked, cut/copy/pasted, drawn across, frozen, unfrozen, blocked, exploded and edited--everything was the way it should have been. I even made a couple PDFs to send in with the TEA grant for the project last week. Between then and now, the file was a completely different beast. At first, I didn't realize it. I went straight to a new layout page and started setting up a plot. But then Doug swung by my desk to tell me something and pointed out that something was awry. The new creek was somehow flowing through a bunch of MCC buildings. Easy to fix. Until I started noticing all the other things that were wrong and--as they started to pile up--not so easy to fix. I'm not sure if it was out recent switch to the latest version of AutoCAD which is not backwards compatible with the previous version, the involvement of some additional surverying work and plotting that was done by someone else, my funky and not entirely competent AutoCAD skills [especially since the last upgrade--folks, if you thought the previous versions of AutoCAD were laborious, confusing and unintuitive, you have NOT used AutoCAD 2007] or [most likely] a combination of all of the above, but whatever the case after two hours it was obvious that some things were completely gone, some just moved, some perfectly fine, and some looked as if they'd been replaced with older, obsolete versions I'd worked on weeks and weeks ago. It's a mess and I'm a bit worried about getting it sorted out in time to get some of quality produced.
It's safe to say that by 5pm I was a tad panicked and stressed. And the ladies across from me in Marketing had it even worse. They were putting together a qualifications package for a new project. The folks who wanted it, wanted it to be sent out that evening via email, so the girls were rushing to make sure that happened. Like me, however, they ran into some issues with files and things not working out the way they had planned. They didn't have my extra day though. In the end, they had a PDF put together to send out that was simply too big. But it still needed to go out immediately and unfortunately the pressure got a little too high, people got upset and the decision was made to call it an evening, take a break and tackle it first thing in the morning.
Well, having had the experiences I've had in graduate school, the 'survival instinct' started to kick in at that point. Once things had settled and most people had calmed down and gone home, I switched desks and started to pile through PDFs, documents and our friend Acrobat Distiller 8. I'd mentioned this process earlier in the day, but they explained to me that they'd run into issues with the CorelDraw created PDFs and were short on time. That led to our other way of creating PDFs which, unfortunately, isn't light on the memory and tricky with quality control leading to the decision to remove the images and graphics all together. [This was the point where there were all sorts of people there at the end of the day, all trying to make sure it went smoothly and the pressure got out of hand.] I wasn't doing anything that the previous person didn't know how to do, nor was I doing it in a revolutionary way [rather the opposite, actually, because I was still there until 7pm and it still wasn't 100% perfect]. I was merely doing it without the pressure or constraints they'd had--which changes everything.
I think my efforts got the job done, impressed people and, hopefully, eleminated the most of the stress that went with it. Since then, my minds been going non-stop. Everything from Vancouver to Flint to work to life to love to this awesome idea for a Che Guevara/office culture knock-off poster with his unforgettable image and the phrase "Cube Libre!" across the top. It'd do remarkably well, I think.
So I find myself sitting here in the dark, thinking of all the times I've tried to help in similar situations throughout my life--particularly in graduate school and most particularly very recently--and how, if history had any bearing or inclination towards repeating as it has in all the other situations, instead of coming up with a successful solution, I should have found some way to nuke the computer I was on, invalidate all the software liscences, crash the server and erradicate the company's S:\ drive.
I'm thinking of why I react to some things with what seems like limitless optimism, grace and talent, while my reaction to others is just the opposite. Pessimistic, hurtful and problematic.
Thinking of why I react to some things and not others.
Saturday, January 27, 2007
I'm my own Father!
No, no... This isn't some dark, twisted, dystopian version of Back To The Future.
It's a more a whimsical, mystical revisioning of...uh... Crap. Some movie that deals with the priesthood in a serious, but non-sexual way.
Anyway, I'm now an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church. I'm looking into the requisit local laws to see what else is necessary of an ordained minister in Shiawassee County Michigan.
It's a more a whimsical, mystical revisioning of...uh... Crap. Some movie that deals with the priesthood in a serious, but non-sexual way.
Anyway, I'm now an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church. I'm looking into the requisit local laws to see what else is necessary of an ordained minister in Shiawassee County Michigan.
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
I like brushing my teeth, okay?
I've got my first client presentation tomorrow! It's not neccessarily MY presentation, but I'll be present, at the very least. As Brent the wetlands guy, says, "You're awfully quiet Shaun!" He was good enough to help us out with a beautification project we're working on in the middle of interstate on-ramp by giving us some good plants to use and by going to the site and doing some soil sampling which ended up meaning we'd have to do some major changes, but at least we caught them early!
Anywho, I was just thinking that I'm a major dental health freak. I've got two kinds of tooth paste. One is the new CREST ultra-super-mondo-wicked toothpaste that does e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g!! It whitens, protects against sensitivity, cavities, plaque, gingevitus, and tartar buildup, and--get this--freshens your breath, too! I use this stuff in the morning and at night. It's got a very unique texture, sorta like that pumice infused liquid handsoap that you use to get axle grease and oil grime off with. It's hardcore. For inbetween brushings, I use a children's toothpaste from Colgate. Decorated with Qui-Gon Jin, Darth Maul, and Jedi Padawan Obi Wan Kenobi, it's got a Galactic Bubble Mint flavor that leaves you coming back for more. The best thing though, is it's color! It's a deep, dark, midnight blue color with metallic gold flecks. It's the 1963 Somerset Blue Metallic Cadillac of toothpastes!
My God, I'm getting weirder and weirder...
I really shouldn't have cut my hair off...
Anywho, I was just thinking that I'm a major dental health freak. I've got two kinds of tooth paste. One is the new CREST ultra-super-mondo-wicked toothpaste that does e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g!! It whitens, protects against sensitivity, cavities, plaque, gingevitus, and tartar buildup, and--get this--freshens your breath, too! I use this stuff in the morning and at night. It's got a very unique texture, sorta like that pumice infused liquid handsoap that you use to get axle grease and oil grime off with. It's hardcore. For inbetween brushings, I use a children's toothpaste from Colgate. Decorated with Qui-Gon Jin, Darth Maul, and Jedi Padawan Obi Wan Kenobi, it's got a Galactic Bubble Mint flavor that leaves you coming back for more. The best thing though, is it's color! It's a deep, dark, midnight blue color with metallic gold flecks. It's the 1963 Somerset Blue Metallic Cadillac of toothpastes!
My God, I'm getting weirder and weirder...
I really shouldn't have cut my hair off...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Rowe, Rowe, Rowe my boat...
Well now! So I have finished my first week of employment at Rowe Inc. and boy am I excited!
I know it's still just the first week of work--I'm working part-time, Tues. - Thurs.--but wow is it ever great to be doing something constructive! I worked half a day on Friday so I could meet with the rest of the LA dept. and get work for next week. They had me work on a revised conceptual plan for a project we're working on that came back with some architectural revisions that required the landscape to change great deal. This week I'll be moving on to another conceptual project involving a local sports park. This is a new one, so I'll be doing much of the initial conceptual work.
Anyway, I hope everyone who's still popping in to read this [and even those that aren't] are having a good holiday!
All the best,
Shaun
I know it's still just the first week of work--I'm working part-time, Tues. - Thurs.--but wow is it ever great to be doing something constructive! I worked half a day on Friday so I could meet with the rest of the LA dept. and get work for next week. They had me work on a revised conceptual plan for a project we're working on that came back with some architectural revisions that required the landscape to change great deal. This week I'll be moving on to another conceptual project involving a local sports park. This is a new one, so I'll be doing much of the initial conceptual work.
Anyway, I hope everyone who's still popping in to read this [and even those that aren't] are having a good holiday!
All the best,
Shaun
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Thursday, December 07, 2006
This is one of those blog posts...
You know the kind. The ones full of self-absorbed references to lyrics by the Nine Inch Nails or Linkin Park, and links to gothy, overly drawn, half-naked angels with black wings and single tears running down their faces. I'm sick with who knows what--probably just my 'nerves'--my stomach in constant and ulcerus turmoil between shots of Pepto, my body achy... It's getting better, I guess, but god am I ever miserable.
There is some good news, though! I've been offered a temporary position as a landscape architect intern at Rowe Incorporated, a local engineering firm. They aren't a firm anyone would have heard of outside this area, but that's alright. They 're mostly enigeneers and surveyors but they do a great many infrastructure projects which interest me and the majority of their work is both fairly hands-on and located throughout the region. They've even done several projects for the fair Village of Byron. They're also directly engaged in the "revitalization" of Flint, as the head office where I'll be working at will be moving into a renovated building downtown during my tenure there.
So I hope y'all are doing well, and your holidays are all very festive!
There is some good news, though! I've been offered a temporary position as a landscape architect intern at Rowe Incorporated, a local engineering firm. They aren't a firm anyone would have heard of outside this area, but that's alright. They 're mostly enigeneers and surveyors but they do a great many infrastructure projects which interest me and the majority of their work is both fairly hands-on and located throughout the region. They've even done several projects for the fair Village of Byron. They're also directly engaged in the "revitalization" of Flint, as the head office where I'll be working at will be moving into a renovated building downtown during my tenure there.
So I hope y'all are doing well, and your holidays are all very festive!
Saturday, November 25, 2006
BLUE STEEL!!
Wow! This is my first legitimate blog entry in quite some time!
I hope everyone had a wonderful and festive Thanksgiving Holiday, full of overbearing and uncomfortably difficult family memebers as we all know that this is the time of the year when we give thanks for having 364 other days when we don't have to deal with them... Unless you're Anne. Sorry, Anne. You're SOL.
Anyway, I'm absolutely missing my uncle's deep fried turkey. My god. That stuff is better than crack! I miss that turkey even more than the pie. And I ate the equivilent of half a pie on Thursday too...
Other than that, things are pretty slow. I'm been spending a bit of energy on the whole 'finding a job in a state with America's 49th worst state economy and 50th worst unemployment rate' thing. Lots of fun. However, I do hope that I will have some positive news to report back on this upcoming week!
Attending a pretty nice dinner banquet for my Alma Mater. It's UM-Flint's 50th anniversary this year, so my former dept. invited all the former students, staff, and faculty back for a party. It was really good getting to talk about the last 4 years with some of the old crew. Really very theareputic. And, of course, Will Marsh was in attendence and it was good to see him, even though it hasn't been that long. As the founder of our dept. the man is absolutely--and deservedly so--revered. It's amazing.
Also, I thought it'd be fun to get out the winter gear today and do a little photoshoot. Despite the fact that it was over 50 today and not a drop of snow was in sight. It's been downright pleasant the last week. Unfortunately, this'll probably be the last time this stuff gets used this season...
My GOD I'm cute!
And humble!
I hope everyone had a wonderful and festive Thanksgiving Holiday, full of overbearing and uncomfortably difficult family memebers as we all know that this is the time of the year when we give thanks for having 364 other days when we don't have to deal with them... Unless you're Anne. Sorry, Anne. You're SOL.
Anyway, I'm absolutely missing my uncle's deep fried turkey. My god. That stuff is better than crack! I miss that turkey even more than the pie. And I ate the equivilent of half a pie on Thursday too...
Other than that, things are pretty slow. I'm been spending a bit of energy on the whole 'finding a job in a state with America's 49th worst state economy and 50th worst unemployment rate' thing. Lots of fun. However, I do hope that I will have some positive news to report back on this upcoming week!
Attending a pretty nice dinner banquet for my Alma Mater. It's UM-Flint's 50th anniversary this year, so my former dept. invited all the former students, staff, and faculty back for a party. It was really good getting to talk about the last 4 years with some of the old crew. Really very theareputic. And, of course, Will Marsh was in attendence and it was good to see him, even though it hasn't been that long. As the founder of our dept. the man is absolutely--and deservedly so--revered. It's amazing.
Also, I thought it'd be fun to get out the winter gear today and do a little photoshoot. Despite the fact that it was over 50 today and not a drop of snow was in sight. It's been downright pleasant the last week. Unfortunately, this'll probably be the last time this stuff gets used this season...
My GOD I'm cute!
And humble!
Monday, November 13, 2006
What is the greatest invention of all time?
I can't tell you what the greatest invention of all time is... Soap? Antibiotics? Agriculture? Impossible to say. In my lifetime, though, it's obviously the personal computer.
(From Consumating)
I can't tell you what the greatest invention of all time is... Soap? Antibiotics? Agriculture? Impossible to say. In my lifetime, though, it's obviously the personal computer.
(From Consumating)
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
What is the scariest thing you've ever seen?
Oh, there's been plenty of things. In the traditional sense of the word, I've got to go with anything that sick bastard, H.R.Giger produces. That man's "artwork" and the horrors it's engendered are nightmarish and disgusting. His damn xenomorphs from the Alien series are what haunt my nightmares.
However, most recently there's this political ad [and partisan politics in general] that's kept me up at night. The worst, was I was focused on the words and small print and didn't notice the actual graphics until almost the middle of the ad. Nothing's scarier than a rich, corporate, God-fearing, Bush loving, closet organizer manufacturer telling me that he knows what's best for me and the state of Michigan...
(From Consumating)
Oh, there's been plenty of things. In the traditional sense of the word, I've got to go with anything that sick bastard, H.R.Giger produces. That man's "artwork" and the horrors it's engendered are nightmarish and disgusting. His damn xenomorphs from the Alien series are what haunt my nightmares.
However, most recently there's this political ad [and partisan politics in general] that's kept me up at night. The worst, was I was focused on the words and small print and didn't notice the actual graphics until almost the middle of the ad. Nothing's scarier than a rich, corporate, God-fearing, Bush loving, closet organizer manufacturer telling me that he knows what's best for me and the state of Michigan...
(From Consumating)
Monday, October 23, 2006
If you could roll back one hour from your life, which hour would it be?
Well, if I could roll back time from my life, it would have to be more than one hour and encompass the time I've spent watching the worst movies ever made [i.e. French films]. And I'm talking the 'make you a lesser person by simply viewing' kind of bad movie, not the 'oh my god, not another Baldwin/Travolta film' kind of bad movie. This would include Twentynine Palms, Ma ma�re, Cache�,Le Temps du loup and far, far too many more...
I swear to god, even thinking of these films makes me want to stab myself in the neck with an X-Acto knife and if I EVER see Isabelle Huppert in real life, I'm taking that woman down hard.
(From Consumating)
Well, if I could roll back time from my life, it would have to be more than one hour and encompass the time I've spent watching the worst movies ever made [i.e. French films]. And I'm talking the 'make you a lesser person by simply viewing' kind of bad movie, not the 'oh my god, not another Baldwin/Travolta film' kind of bad movie. This would include Twentynine Palms, Ma ma�re, Cache�,Le Temps du loup and far, far too many more...
I swear to god, even thinking of these films makes me want to stab myself in the neck with an X-Acto knife and if I EVER see Isabelle Huppert in real life, I'm taking that woman down hard.
(From Consumating)
Monday, October 16, 2006
If you were in politics, what would your career ending scandal entail?
The dubious details of the month I spent having fun, learning, exploring, partying, and living in Cuba would get out...
(From Consumating)
The dubious details of the month I spent having fun, learning, exploring, partying, and living in Cuba would get out...
(From Consumating)
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...
Well folks, there you have it. The first snow of the season. That was the state of affairs at about 9am this morning. Now, an hour later, there's basically no indication of the dastardly white stuff at all, which is good, in my opinion, but just serves to make its permanency during the winter all that more brutal and foreboding.
Also, you can now see what my parent's house looks like from the front [south]. Quite the contrast in comparison to the north elevation. The small, glassed in projection in the very front of the house is the solarium--the heart of our passive heating system. It used to have 4 large skylights, but those were taken out in an attempt to fix a leaky solarium roof [which, we found out the expensive way, had nothing to do with the skylights]. Even without the skylights, the house is oriented in such a way that the south elevation--the solarium in particular--achieves the maximum amount of incident solar radiation in the winter. It can be well below freezing outside on a sunny day, but well over 80F [27C] or higher in the solarium. It sits between the half basement and the 2nd floor and is connected to the former by a small window in the hobby room and a pair of large french doors upstairs. When those are open, the hot air naturally ciculates from the solarium to the upstairs and cooler air is drawn from the basement. Of course, it's still a 3600 sq.ft. monster house [bigger now that we've added the adjoining garage, entry room, and loft] but I'm still really proud of that central bit of ecology designed into a home built in 1984!
In other news, I'll be meeting with the Director of the Landscape Architecture dept. at a local engineering firm at some point next week. Keep your fingers crossed!
Holy crap... It's now almost 11am and a very strong wind has kicked up and there is a great deal increasingly larger and larger flakes of light snow being driven nearly parallel to the ground... *sigh* It's quite the sight to behold, but I hate Michigan winters.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Kim Jong-il has the bomb. How do you grab someone's attention?
I stand up and point at them.
(From Consumating)
I stand up and point at them.
(From Consumating)
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
One bad JASPER
"Shaun, your answers indicate that you are a Visionary when it comes to your overall work personality. Your JASPER type is a combination of your most prominent work traits and a good indicator of what you're like at work."
"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big."
-Donald Trump
Interesting career test that Monster.com offers.
"You take great pleasure in brainstorming creative ideas and having discussions about abstract concepts, which are activities that often involve collaborating with your colleagues. Not overly concrete, you'd rather be the one who comes up with the ideas than the one to figure out how to implement them. With a preference for creativity and theory, you probably have little desire to work with numbers or data.
Although you may not currently be in an occupation that involves working with ideas, being good at thinking creatively and channeling different theories and concepts into actionable ideas will help you excel in this area. You may want to explore Idea-heavy occupations such as an advertising copywriter, architect, a software developer, or a writer."
"I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big."
-Donald Trump
Interesting career test that Monster.com offers.
"You take great pleasure in brainstorming creative ideas and having discussions about abstract concepts, which are activities that often involve collaborating with your colleagues. Not overly concrete, you'd rather be the one who comes up with the ideas than the one to figure out how to implement them. With a preference for creativity and theory, you probably have little desire to work with numbers or data.
Although you may not currently be in an occupation that involves working with ideas, being good at thinking creatively and channeling different theories and concepts into actionable ideas will help you excel in this area. You may want to explore Idea-heavy occupations such as an advertising copywriter, architect, a software developer, or a writer."
Friday, October 06, 2006
A space of my own...
BEFORE:
DURING:
AFTER:
Here it is. Still need to get the PC setup and I've got no pin-up or layout space but those are problems I can deal with when I get to them. I'm pretty excited about being able to sit down and getting to work on the thesis.
I'll be taking it easy this weekend though. My cousin [who used to live across the driveway as we were growing up] and his wife are visiting from California and there's a BIG family get-together and turkey dinner at my grama's place [which is also right across the driveway] all day tomorrow. And Sunday I think I'll look into seeing if I can't whip up a solution to computer/layout space out in my dad's workshop--even if it's just setting a door on a couple sawhorses.
If you've got any creative pin-up, layout, or workspace ideas, leave a comment!
DURING:
AFTER:
Here it is. Still need to get the PC setup and I've got no pin-up or layout space but those are problems I can deal with when I get to them. I'm pretty excited about being able to sit down and getting to work on the thesis.
I'll be taking it easy this weekend though. My cousin [who used to live across the driveway as we were growing up] and his wife are visiting from California and there's a BIG family get-together and turkey dinner at my grama's place [which is also right across the driveway] all day tomorrow. And Sunday I think I'll look into seeing if I can't whip up a solution to computer/layout space out in my dad's workshop--even if it's just setting a door on a couple sawhorses.
If you've got any creative pin-up, layout, or workspace ideas, leave a comment!
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
I am not a slutty cowboy...
Well, I've recently been inspired [by the fear that the dragging of my feet through yet another project might possibily alienate someone i care about] into busting my obsessive-compulsive, overly meticulous, easily side-tracked, ass on getting the room clean. I'm no longer obsessing over what old toys to stick up on eBay. Not looking up their relative net value to collectors. Not reading through old love letters. Not going through the photos of past trips.
I'm just.
Frickin'.
Cleaning.
Now don't get me wrong, the process is still slow. I DO have to take the time and sort through things so I'm not forced to do it at a later date. But it's not as slow as it has been. It also helps that I already had the vast majority of it done already. Anyway, that's all a lot of boring, blah-blah-blah, lameness that you don't want to hear...
On to the good stuff! Pictures of me in slutty [thanks mom!] and not-so-slutty cowboy hats [I found my old cowboy hat today!]. With tiaras!
Okay, so this one is obviously way too small... This is actually my hat. I got it on my first trip to Texas in... Uhh... 1987 or something like that. I was 9 I think. It was the only trip to Texas where I didn't break something of my aunt's. Ahh... Good times!
I'm just.
Frickin'.
Cleaning.
Now don't get me wrong, the process is still slow. I DO have to take the time and sort through things so I'm not forced to do it at a later date. But it's not as slow as it has been. It also helps that I already had the vast majority of it done already. Anyway, that's all a lot of boring, blah-blah-blah, lameness that you don't want to hear...
On to the good stuff! Pictures of me in slutty [thanks mom!] and not-so-slutty cowboy hats [I found my old cowboy hat today!]. With tiaras!
Okay, so this one is obviously way too small... This is actually my hat. I got it on my first trip to Texas in... Uhh... 1987 or something like that. I was 9 I think. It was the only trip to Texas where I didn't break something of my aunt's. Ahh... Good times!
This hat is one of two that my mother owns. I believe she got it in Hawaii when the sun proved to be a bit too much, even in the winter. It looks better on me, than it does her. Also, I like making funny faces.
Best cowboy hat. EVER! The weight, texture, and flexibility are perfect! It's comfortable and fits far better than the other two. Do I care that it's pink and has a tiara? Hell. No.
I'm completely out of 'bull auction' t-shirts. So I figured that the shirt advertising my unicorn breeding program would be the next best thing for a slutty cowboy to be wearing...
Sunday, October 01, 2006
So we met on the internet. Now we need a cover up story. What crazy tale do you tell people about how we met in real life?
What's so wrong with meeting on the internet? I'm not embarrassed one iota by the amazing women I've met online, especially the ones from Consumating! I'd be a fool to cover it up!
(From Consumating)
What's so wrong with meeting on the internet? I'm not embarrassed one iota by the amazing women I've met online, especially the ones from Consumating! I'd be a fool to cover it up!
(From Consumating)
Random crazy picture Sunday...
A rather amazing rainbow that came out yesterday afternoon. It was actually a double rainbow and the inner rainbow was also faintly mirrored so that it went ROYGBIVIBGYOR.
Me and my sister's cat, Poopy Kitty. Well, that's what I call him. His actual name is Hobbes Gir. But he's usually called "Habu Dahby," because he's a bit of a terrorist, in his mannerisms. His full terrorist name is "Habu Dahby Pin-Pin Poohla Achmed-Yomomma-Jackson." My mother invariably has several other names which range from "Hobby Bobby" to "Hey Cat" depending on her mood...
My cat Lulu Ann on the left and Poopy Kitty on the right, fighting in their own curious way...
I'm very excited to be taking my picture with Poopy Kitty.
Even more excited to be actually holding my own cat...
Tree frog!
Poopy Kitty, sleeping underneath a pillow. After waking up about half an hour later, he proceeded to launch a random assortment of attacks upon my person, biting and wacking my arm, before retreating back to the saftey of the pillow... He's weird...
Me, sorta dressed up, and looking damn sexy!
Goofy grin...
Lula Ann HATES being picked up...
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