Confessions

Tim Burton exhibit in NY.

Finally, I'm blogging. It's been hard for me to blog because I was having problems with Edwin and I've been editing myself here. I would start to blog and then stop many times. So now I'm out of the closet. Edwin is gone. I'm redecorating the house. Even now it's hard to be serious about it. Talking to people is not my strong suit when things go wrong. So, suffice to say that I make very bad choices.

I really am redecorating though. I painted the living room and recovered the dining room chairs. This is easier for me to handle if I make the place my own and all about me. When we moved in together we had two of everything. He was so in love with his own stuff I got rid of mine. It didn't matter that much to me. Now though, I find he decided that that means everything is his, and I have no couch, no bed, no microwave and only a few DVDs. Luckily, it is just stuff (although I really miss my Tomb Raider) and it can all be replaced. So I'm concentrating on the positive. I get to get new, or at least, new to me stuff.

I wish I could say that this kind of thing gets easier when you've done it a few times, but it doesn't. And that is about all I can confess to today.

New York

I'm packing for my trip to New York today which is my birthday gift from Pam. I'm not sure what we will be doing, she's keeping it secret. I do know I have to bring a swim suit. So I'm thinking maybe a hot tub? That's probably because I'd really like to thaw right now. :-) I do know that whatever we will be doing it will be fun and it will be really good to spend time with Pam.

When I get back, which will be on Wednesday, I'm planning to revamp the house and make some studio space. I'm really looking forward to be able have one again. It also looks like there will be a possible job. It will be a bit of a hassle getting there and back, but I'm not complaining, money is a good thing. I like money. A lot.

That's about it today. I'll try to take lots of pictures for the next post. :-)

Baby Things

With Emily's baby due soon I figure it's time to start working on baby things. Emily's mother is an avid crocheter, knitter, and seamstress. Not to mention everything she does comes out perfect. Since she'll most likely provide Emily with the standard baby things I decided it's my job to provide the geek baby things. Here are the first two.


Dalek

He's stuffed with quilt batting so he's very light and fluffy.


Baby Cthulhu


Back. See the little wings?

Friends, Work and Kitties

I went out to dinner with Emily and Tony last night to discuss and plan the Convergence commercials we're working on and just had the best time. We spent half the time working and half the time getting caught up on people we haven't seen in a while. Or maybe I could call it gossiping? Is it gossiping when nothing bad is said? Anyway, I felt like a kid again. It was fun.

The housing inspector came yesterday and all the work I did was approved. Yea! But it felt weird to suddenly be done in a matter of minutes when it's taken me all month to do the work. :-) Today feels like a day off because the repairs are done, but in reality I have lots to do. I have two programs to learn; Final Cut Pro and Story Board Pro. I have a business plan to work on and, well, lets just say I won't be bored and I won't get done with it all.

Guinness, our 15 pound kitty came lumbering into the bedroom last night. Lumbering is the only word that I can think of that fits the way he walks. He's not graceful like cats are supposed to be. He hits the floor so hard with his feet that he sounds like a full grown human walking through the house. He walks with a slight pull to one side, his shoulders hunch up and the feet don't always match up. Last night he came up on the bed, stepping on me, sliding off, stepping on me and sliding off, every pound finding a sore spot on my body. He finally got to my head. Purring and putting all his weight behind it he gave me a resounding head butt. It hurt and I thought, I love this cat.

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Monty Python - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Devil's Quote

ABSENT, adj. Peculiarly exposed to the tooth of detraction; vilifed; hopelessly in the wrong; superseded in the consideration and affection of another.

To men a man is but a mind. Who cares
What face he carries or what form he wears?
But woman's body is the woman. O,
Stay thou, my sweetheart, and do never go,
But heed the warning words the sage hath said:
A woman absent is a woman dead.
Jogo Tyree

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY
by Ambrose Bierce

On that happy thought I'm going out to breakfast with Emily and her mom and dad this morning. They all all such nice people. Then I will probably do more house repair stuff.

Rant

OK, I'm annoyed. Again. So today you get a badly written rant.

This time it's because of Internet scams like "allexperts" or "examiner." These places use people for little or no money and then make tons of money off them with advertising. Really, it makes me nuts. People who end up working for them don't care because they believe it gives them exposure and will somehow help with their success. But that's kind of like saying working at a dive diner will help you on your way to being a head chef. Not very likely. Meanwhile, the ease of getting free or almost free workers drops the going pay rate for these types of job. Everyone gets hurt. It makes me mad.

"You get what you pay for." Remember that saying? Well, not too many other people do these days. While looking for more clues into Joco's mysterious limp, that even the vet can't diagnose, I ran into one of these sites that proclaim they have experts to answer your questions. Let's just say the woman "expert" shouldn't have been let out of her cage long enough to type. She not only did not answer the poor dog owner's question, who was asking for advise, but she decided the dog owner was somehow trying to be cheap and not pay for a vet. She berated the dog owner for asking for help. Nice.

But don't get me wrong, it's not all bad. I really do the the availability to get good information on the internet. I do it all the time. I love instructables.com, Make Magazine and a number of other sites I visit regularly. I just hate that for every good thing, there is someone out there scamming people with it.

One internet rant wont stop it. I don't believe it will ever go away. I'll still say, people do bad things because we let them. Remember Walmart? Sure you do, they never went away. Have they started treating their employees better? Have they stopped demanding manufacturers to make inferior, cheaper products for their stores? Of course not. We still shop there.