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Tuesday, December 31, 2002 | <12:58 PM> HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Tuesday, December 24, 2002 | <9:18 AM> I finally made it home yesterday after driving through some of the worst crap I've seen in a while. Traffic wasn't too bad, but the drive to houston is long enough on a clear day -- add pouring rain and tornado warnings to the mix and it's the drive from hell. Jessie and I went to check out "Gangs of New York" on friday night. I've been waiting for this one since I first heard about it over a year ago and I was far from disappointed. It's a shoe-in for a score of oscar nods and I'd bet the ranch that Daniel Day-Lewis wins his second best actor oscar for his portrayal of the evil "Bill the butcher". What a performance. And considering Scorsese has never won one himself, it's a pretty safe bet that he'll win best director this year. Monday, December 23, 2002 | <8:54 AM> I'm NOT dreaming of a wet christmas. Or a wet 300 mile drive, for that matter. Damn. Saturday, December 21, 2002 | <3:44 PM> No more work for 10 days! Wahoo! Now it's off to houston for a few days to spend some time with the fam. Blogging has been on the backburner with everything going on at work and elsewhere. I've made a few revisions to the home page, including the new itunes script you see above that displays the current song playing in the que. It doesn't serve much purpose, but it was a real challenge to set up and I learned a few things in the process. I'm sure at some point there will come a random song or two in my collection that will spark mockery from my fellow co-workers. But when you have a random selection of 4,000 songs playing not everyone's gonna be a fan. Not that I really care, anyway... I'll try and update more when I have time. Right now it's off the jessie's for a night of shopping and thai food. :) Have fun fighting mall traffic. Friday, December 13, 2002 | <7:48 PM> Why the hell does it seem like every creative job I work on use Futura or Myriad as a typeface? Honestly -- it's not a design choice I make, I just happen to inherit these sans serif gems on damn near everything I do. The latest and greatest example is an nice contact lens solution direct mail piece and email campaign. It's not that I think these fonts suck, in fact -- considering the absolute crap on the font server one could choose from, these are classic faces that work well with what I'm doing. I'm just tired of them. And I'm tired period. It's friday night and I've spent all day working on the latest pitch taking place first thing monday morning. This one's a pretty big deal according to the account service team (funny, aren't they all?) and our team has spent the entire week preparing the best we can. Of course, I'm the last one still here, but I figure if I get a lot of this shit done now it won't occupy too much my weekend. At least I hope not... It's bad enough when the one day your company decides to treat the employees to a decent party (complete with outdoor party tent and free-flowing alcohol) you're stuck inside cranking away on comps. And if that's not enough to make the week any stranger, how weird is it when your former boss comes in to freelance under you? Strange times, indeed. Tuesday, December 10, 2002 | <11:31 AM> Grey skies and cold, wet weather made this weekend a little more gloomy than most. I don't mind the cold so much, but my dogs and I could both do without the wet. Friday was fun. Club schmitz with the usual crew. We watched the mavs dominate the lakers in the first half and I got home in time to watch them grab thier ankles while surrendering a 30 point lead. How disgusting. After all they've done all year, that's gonna leave a sour taste in my mouth and judging from the look on mark cuban's face after the game he feels the same way. I tried not to let it bother me too much -- after all it's just a game. And if weren't for the mavs or rockets, I could give a flying flip about basketball. Saturday I got some shopping done and fought mall traffic more than I'd like. There were lots of happy shoppers in the apple store at willowbend buying all sorts of cool mac stuff. I saw three powerbooks and two iMacs roll out the door in the 15 minutes I was there. Someone's getting a nice christmas gift. :) Later that night, jessie and I went to steve's holiday party. We saw lots of people we work with (or used to work with) and spent most of the night huddled in the corner with stevie and ruben. After three hours of standing, we took off and ended up at sterling's for some late night mullet karaoke. I managed to muster up some donovan while the CD player skipped in mid-song as if to tell me I need to make an even bigger ass of myself. After dusting the disk I got through it once more and let ruben take over with some prince. Amazing how someone can be so infatuated with a man who wears purple and goes by a symbol. Sunday morning. Cafe brazil. Empanada and brazilian coffee with my better half. :) Awesome as always. Spent the rest of the day glued to the couch watching the texans upset the steelers and watching my fantasy team eek its way into the playoffs. Too bad I'm matched up against the best team in the league next week. Anyone else think I have a chance in hell with this line-up? Me neither! Since I had yesterday off I didn't do much of anything. I'm feeling like a complete sloth lately and can't seem to motivate myself to do anything productive when I need to. Maybe it's the weather. I dunno. Either way I need to find a way to clean the house before the parents come up this weekend and get off my lazy ass. And now I need to go back to work... Friday, December 06, 2002 | <10:26 AM> I moved a vacation day scheduled for today to monday since I had an overwhelming workload of deliverables. After taking some time off last week it's almost too soon to take another vacation day, but that's what they're there for so I'm using 'em. Nearly every week from now until the end of the year will be a short one for me. I think next year I'll spread my time off around a little more. Christmas season is upon us and that means cold weather, mall crowds and shopping for people you have no idea what to buy. I've only spent a few hours shopping so far this year and I've managed to cross only two people off my list. The problem is I'm just not a very savvy christmas shopper. I tend to forget mental notes I make throughout the year on what to buy people and end up clueless come december. There's a long-standing tradition at my house of poking fun of the gifts we buy each other. It's not that way on everything we open, but there always a few gifts exchanged that end up being good for a laugh on christmas eve. Queen of the gift giving mockery is my granny. God bless her. I love her to death, but there's only so many miracles you can manage from mail-order. Don't get me wrong-- I appreciate the thought, but one has to wonder what she was thinking when two years ago I opened a set of bed sheets that might look good in a 13 year-old girl's bedroom. I laughed along with my sister who still gives me hell for that to this day. If anyone's intersested in a mauve sheet set, let me know. I'll sell it to you cheap. Oh well, if you can't laugh at each other, who can you laugh at? The crew is getting ready for another round ala club schmitz today. Goodbye work week. Hello, three day weekend and morning hangover. Wednesday, December 04, 2002 | <10:39 AM> The simpsons collection has officially gotten out of hand. Doh! |