30 December 2006

NYE Approaches!

Yes kids, NYE approaches & what on earth are we doing? My wife and I decided to throw a shin-dig at “Red Door Manor” and allow people to pass out/sleep over so no DWI’s are handed out. We’re trying to put something fun into the works but we haven’t succeeded as of yet. So we’ll be wearing fun party clothes, not like a masquerade ball or anything, but wear something fun kind of a thing, you know, for the kids!

I wanted to do an Alec Ballwin/SNL Canteen Boy skit with my wife as “Canteen Girl” or something but that didn’t work out, maybe I’ll be Slevin? Either way, hopefully it all goes on without a hitch, it’d be awful for folkers not to have fun on New Years Eve.

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27 December 2006

Christmas has come and past

Hopefully everyone out there had a wonderful holiday, no matter which one you celebrate. I fared pretty well with my haul of loot, got a nifty golf range-finder and some shirts and movies and such. I will admit that I am happy the holidays are coming to a close currently, I was stressing out a bit, that is never very fun.

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22 December 2006

The time grows ever near

With just a few short days left till Christmas working in retail can be a bit daunting. Consumers rush to the stores to grab that last minute gift or stocking stuffer. Longer hours and less thanks but it is the season to be Jolly so I haven’t let if phase me. After a trip across the parking lot to the local Wal-Mart I was nearly run down several times … Think “Frogger” from the 80’s! Oh well, just a couple little things left to grab and I’m done with this holiday season. My wife has been trying to force me to open my presents early too, while I’d like to it’s just not Christmas yet, and that’s what I’m used to! She’s just excited for what she got me as gifts though I know.

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16 December 2006

Cocktails and Commoradory

Today I started off thinking I was to work a slow retail store and catch up on some email/holiday eShopping but was instead tossed into a business to business extravaganza known as Federated Department Stores. This isn’t a big deal as I made some extra cheese on sales and my commission check next month should be pretty decent. I still dislike the last minute notice that I’m given. At any rate I guess I can take solace that I was off earlier today, I enjoyed taking my wife out for Mexican and then we headed over to the Tin Can on Morganford for a few extra cocktails. Perfect cap to the week. As Christmas gets ever closer I know that I need to grab a few more gifts for people, it’s a bit unnerving to think that we’re just like 10 days away from the big deal.

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14 December 2006

Firefox 3!

Okay, so it’s only in Alpha 1 but I am using it right now! Dubbed Gran Paradiso, Firefox 3 is in Alpha 1 early developer milestone. I am quite anxious about this release as it will have a major impact on how folks like myself can render websites. Cairo will be used as the default graphics library affecting how all pages and text is “painted” on the screen. It’s just too exciting I know! I wouldn’t give up my Firefox 2 until this copy is closer to Beta but it’s worth the download.

I could tell you about everything that excites me with this new build but you should head on over to Mozilla and read about it for yourself!

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13 December 2006

Vienna 2

News Junkie? Here’s your fix, tons of folks out there are into RSS feeds and keeping up-to-date with their favorite sites/bloggers. You can use a few built in tools for this if you browse using Firefox or Safari, well pretty much anything except IE(Internet Explorer that breaks down site designs like stomach acid would a Pizza), but if your like me you like to keep everything on your computer in it’s own space. I tried a ton of programs available to my platform and was very happy with Vienna 2 for my RSS needs. With a host of standard features plus some really swank advanced stuff, Vienna may just become your new news buddy!

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13 December 2006

Big and Tall Pants Party

Okay, so everyone has driven by, been to or at least heard of a Big and Tall shop. My biggest gripe is, where are all the Average and Short shops? I have an average waist, well in America maybe a below average waist but it doesn’t mean that I am six foot tall. Why is there not a shop or a call for people to produce jeans and pants that I don’t need to have tailored? Is this such a small demographic that I couldn’t hope to have something made for me that fits right off the rack? Don’t get me wrong, a suit you have tailored because otherwise it looks cheap. But jeans? Seriously. Who is going to pay the fee to have them hemmed up? Sure, I could just sew them up myself but everyone out there knows that guys are great at screwing stuff like that up, I’d have one leg too long still while the other was too short, no thanks.

So this is my proposal, to manufacturers out there. If you make them, they’ll be bought by the countless guys like me who hate to roll up the cuffs or walk forever on the heels of our pants.

MAKE PANTS FOR AVERAGE GUYS!!!

Comment if you need my size for perfect jeans.

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11 December 2006

Rockin’ the Suburbs

Today has gone pretty well, weather has kind of sucked but all and all pretty good, had to get to a meeting this morning at the business office for the company I work for. Meeting went well, usually does. Got home and me and the wife had a nice afternoon together before I had to go with the Rams/Bears game, I was working the tailgating stuff so I was able to scoot out fairly early, thankfully, it was cold and raining.

I’m just a few weeks away from Christmas and starting to feel the crunch, I need to seriously take care of the rest of that this coming weekend, hopefully it will not be too bad. I could use some extra cheddar though, maybe someone nice would PayPal me some cash in the spirit of the holidays! I know I know, shameless plug for myself.

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9 December 2006

Offramp to Sanity

Holidays approach, I have yet to get much shopping done, I reserve this weekend to get on top of that. We have shopped for the nieces and nephews so far, but we still have some shopping to do, and I have to get a few things for that someone special in my life. In the midst of this I have a few concurrent projects running and a few old sites to get back online (for a former boss) and then my current “day job”.

At present I will be working on three different sites, the money should be decent but it may cut into my time a tad. I’m also trying to improve constantly on this my site, _and then_ I’ll have to get my professional site back up and running, sheesh. I have piece of mind that I’ll get through this holiday season just fine, but I will admit that I’ve been stressed lately.

Is anyone else out there going through an obstacle oriented season right now?

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8 December 2006

Linotype FontExplorer X

When I switched from Windows to Mac I brought a ton of nonsense with me, one thing was 2000+ fonts. Apple included FontBook with OS X, which is great until you have half of the fonts I have. I’d get that program freezing and crashing left and right which was very annoying when I needed to activate a special font for a project I was working on. I set out at that point to find a solution to this dilemma, and that solution ended up being FontExplorer X by Linotype. I must admit that I didn’t find this gem until countless searches led me to Jason Santa Maria’s site, (also noted on creativebits). I’ve put this program through the wringer on many instances and it’s yet to even scoff at me. I recommend this to my fellow Apple design friends, and now to you because your my friend, aren’t you?

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