Tag Archives: Personal Blather

Met one of the people who are going to be moving into our office once we’ve moved into out new location. Of course, we’re not going to move until all the old stuff that’s stored in the new office is moved out, and that’s not going to happen for a while yet. Then the remodeling crew needs to go over the new place, and the electricians, and the networking people. And for all that time this new person doesn’t even have a place to hang her coat. She’s literally using her car as an office… We’ve joked occasionally that we’re not going to move until we’re as busy as it’s possible to be. It’s starting to look less like a joke now.
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For the next couple of days it’s just going to be me and my boss in the office. Kinda like it used to be years ago… Of course, the workload is much higher now than it used to be then, but that’s ok. I mean, it’s all done with computers, right?
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I picked up some friends from the airport today. We used their car rather than wedge four people into a VW bug. The strangest part of it was that their car is an automatic and I’m very much used to driving a stick. It took a conscious effort of will to not step on the non-existent clutch when turning corners or coming to a halt.
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We’re hosting a Smithee movie viewing event tonight – in just a few minutes actually – and we’ve been prepping for it for most of the afternoon. I’ve been cooking. First thing was a batch of home-made salsa using some of the fresh tomatoes from a friend’s garden. It’s my first attempt to make salsa, and I think it’s ok… Maybe a bit salty. We’ll see how it goes.
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Yeah, a bit of a late entry for tonight. Work has been pretty hectic, so I was planning on saving my writing for the evening… And then with the combination of cat-sitting for some friends and heading over to my Sister’s place to help her with a gaming thing, things ran rather late.
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Those fools! What do they think they’re doing, messing around with dinosaur bones in Norway?!? Haven’t they seen Reptilicus?!? Granted, that was Denmark, not Norway… But they’re not that far apart! Have we learned nothing at all from that cautionary tale? How many more cardboard cut-outs of farmers in blue plaid shirts will be eaten by rubber snakes before we realize that digging up dinosaurs in Scandinavia can only lead to tragedy?

I was just in the break room getting a cup of coffee and I met one of the new student part-time workers. He was going through a box of office supplies while I was in there and they found a box of something they couldn’t identify. Thin tissue sheets, plain on one side, covered with greasy looking black on the other. He took one out and looked at it with obvious confusion for a few seconds then said, “Excuse me sir? Do you know what this is?”

“It’s carbon paper.”

“Oh. What’s it for?”

Wow. Suddenly I feel old.

I’ve been doing the “Cough your lungs out” abdominal workout for the past couple of days, and I can really feel it working. Pretty soon I’ll have rock-hard abs and a pair of inverted lungs floating around with me like a pair of grey-pink puffy balloons attached to my mouth.
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I have no idea what that title means. I just kind of like the concept of black-clad Japanese assassins creeping around with lethal sharpened carpet samples.

Andy Ihnatko posted some brilliant words of wisdom that encapsulate why I haven’t posted much here recently. I’ve been thinking too much about what I write. I get started on something and then I find myself re-thinking and re-editing to the point that I just abandon what I’ve written as “Not Good Enough” and wind up posting nothing.

And if there’s one thing that I should have learned by now, when it comes to the Internet, there’s no such thing as “Not Good Enough.”
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I’m having a bit of fun with Adobe Illustrator, using a combination of brush textures, drop shadows and clipping masks to create ‘torn paper’ effects. I was thinking of posting the results, but then I realized that the poster I’m doing this for is full of close up and gory photos of tendon repair surgeries. Probably not the best thing to spring on people without warning.
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