Bird Crap!

10.21.2002

Whenever I get home, I always roll down the driver's side window while pulling into and parking in the garage. I've done it ever since I bought the house. It helps to keep the car (or truck) from getting that stuffy, musty smell.

Yesterday, Gina was going over for our weekly lunch excursion, so I went ahead and opened the garage door tomake it easier for her to get in. When she got there, she asked "Did you see your little birdie?" Evidently, a bird was seeking the solace of my garage. Oh well, I can be a bird sanctuary.

We got in the truck to go to lunch, and what did I see on the steering wheel? A bird turd. Follwing by another on the steering column. No big deal, easy enough to clean off. Except then Gina looked in the backseat and saw the bird had been there too (Luckily, not for too long, for there was only one little present).

Now I hate birds. Away, damned birds, away!

Plane Update: Sometime over the weekend, the plane made a valiant attempt to free itself from the clutches of the evil tree. It was successful, but not without a price. It now has to undergo a tailfin-ectomy (not bad, since tail fins are only $10).

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Laying Some Smackdown On Some Lighting

10.18.2002

I found out that this weekend Jason (as featured in the JasonTracker is being presented with an award for Lighting Designer of the Year this weekend in Las Vegas. Woo hoo!

I talk about how he does the lighting and stage design for the WWE, but he really does a lot more than that. I know in the past year he's done a couple of television specials like the Dove Awards, and a stray music concert or two. All of this on his road to eventually doing movies.

Before long, I'll have to talk him into getting me tickets to the Oscars instead of Raw.....

Plane Update: 9:23 AM. Still stuck in the damn tree.

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Giddy Programming Time

10.17.2002

Since getting back from Da Beach, I've been pretty much brain dead. Not a good thing when you've got 2 websites to be working on. Maybe it's just my little vacation trying to hang on, but yesterday everything I was trying to do was taking two to three times longer than it should have.

This morning I got some good new that I think is going to help motivate me. I got some feedback from someone using the Southerland Station website (the toy store I was working on during the waning days of ResGen). This was the first website I did on my own for a customer, so I was hoping people wouldn't look at it and say "Hey, that sucks!"

Luckily, I got the following:
I love the new website. The layout is appealing and it is informational.

I think that's pretty close to "Hey, that doesn't suck!", don't you?

Mid-Day Tangent
I went today and finally got an R/C Plane today. I flew Steve's a couple of months ago and noticed how easy and fun it was to fly. Today, I went with Jerry and we each bought one. Even though it was a little windy, we got them up in the air. 30 minutes later Jerry was down a wing and a propellor, and mine was stuck 60 feet up in a tree. Maybe the wind will blow it down tonight? Update tomorrow!

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Return From Da Beach

10.16.2002

I'm back and trying to settle back in to how to work again, but here are the highlights of my recent beach excursion:

• 4 lbs of really big shrimp.
• 3 dozen oysters
• 2 days of rain
• ... and I never stepped foot on the beach.

I know, it's not much for highlights, but it was a very uneventful trip. It must have been a combination of off season for the beach and dreary weather. After 6 hours of driving back through the rain, I was just happy to be home.

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Hero Clix, Pt 2

10.15.2002

Now that the DC HeroClix are available, I of course had to get some. A quick visit to my local Electronics Boutique garnered me the Starter Set and 2 booster packs. Even though I don't know all the details of the rules yet, I think I made out pretty good. Each of my booster packs had a unique figure: the Dark Knight Batman and Parasite .

Now I've just got to learn how to play so I can put that potential butt kicking to use!

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