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Quick Update

OMG. So have you seen the FULLY NUDE Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) pics? Well click HERE (NSFW!!!) to see them.

Holy shit, a boy can dream!

As I stated, Helpdesk work today. Which means I was up at 3am. In the office EARLY as hell and didn’t get out of there till 2 because of what I posted in the previous friends only posting (sorry non-friends!). So tonight I am just hangin gout at home chilling and trying to stay off the computer. (Clearly not working).

So much stuff was going on at the office today though. I had 4 people coming to me all day long asking for RIGHT THIS INSTANT changes to thier projects. I felt bad because one of the other projects that I was looking forward too got dumped on someone else. I was really looking forward to doing it too because it would have provided a great distraction for an hour or two.

Anyways the rest of the weekend should be really fun. Hanging out with ben and what not. I’m enjoying him.

Later.

A New Company Site….

Well as some of you know, two weeks ago I was given a HUGE project of redesigning our company website. This is a huge undertaking for any graphics designer. And well, since I’m NOT a graphics designer, it’s an even bigger task for me. I was given 8 days to complete the task and handed a book of mock ups from our CEO as to what he wanted it to look like. The first round was in black and white…

I really didn’t like the looks of it. But I’ve learned that when the CEO gives me something like this, I don’t have much ability to change what he wants. When he says to design something new, with no mockups, I can do whatever I want. But when there’s mock-ups. He wants them to look identical.

So I started… I worked two whole days on the layout, the specific div tags, the placement of menus, etc. Then I got the color printouts. I HATED it.

But I followed it. I created the headings, the graphics. Everything. Hating each and every bit of it. I tried changing little bits here and there. It started to look better. Then we got into the review sessions, and they all got changed back. “Trebuchet” size 16 font for the main body, horrible. The placement, etc. I just couldn’t deal with it. But my input was falling on deaf ears.

Two days before it was to go live, the VP came over and asked to see it. He came up with some changes to make it look better, a couple new headers to try out, stuff like that. But it still looked horrible. The giant font on the body tags, etc. I just couldn’t deal.

We’re now 3 days past due, still working on content, etc. People have been working thier asses off on it. Trying to get it to look better.

Today at 1 I was getting ready to leave when some of the developers stopped over and asked how I felt about it. I said I hated it. They said they hated it, we brought in the VP and talked to him. We spent the next hour, the five of us frantically changing things, adding colors and graphics and trying out new headers.

I was amazed at how fast it came together. How quickly such an UGLY site could change to something so much better. Below is the version the CEO likes and the (close to) final product (that everyone else likes). Sadly, it still has to go through the CEO approval. Hopefully with 5 of us in there telling him this is what we like. It’ll get pushed through.

This is a project I would NOT put my name on…

This is a project, I’m happy to place my name on….

Some of the other projects I’ve been working my ass off on include a new mock-up site for McKesson… This is a site I was given by the CEO and told to have complete creative control over, yet make it “professional” looking as doctors/pharmacies, etc would be using it:

And lastly here’s the other latest website I did. There was a much better looking version of it that I liked better. Sadly it got scrapped.

HD Coverage Again

So this week I’m covering for the HD again. I know I bitch about this everytime I do it. But my god! What does this guy do in the afternoons!? When I used to work the HD every day, he would do this. And he’s STILL doing it. Leaves 20-40 unread e-mails EVERY DAY! WHY!?!?!?!? This is ridiculous. He even leaves things marked as “Unread” when he has CLEARLY replied to them and he leaves the messages that HE sends out marked as unread! RIDICULOUS! There is NO REASON for this at all.

I am leaving them as they are. Not touching a god damn thing. I bet you when I come in the morning they are all the same way! UGH!

So remember I went flying with Jason and Carlito a while back? Well the pictures from that flight are up on the photodump at last!

Tuesday night Ben came over and we went out to Sushi. I really enjoy my time with him. I asked him to see what sort of CHEAP flight he could get me back to Iowa. I wanna go and look at some houses and what not.

Bush Gets Spanked…. I would LOVE to see this here.

Will it blend?

I love the glowstick one.

Been REALLY busy at work and trying to crank out stuff for my Contract jobs. These 3:30am days are KILLING me. Thank god I only have one more left.

Thursday Ben came over and we went out shopping. I bought a really cute pair of shorts and a bunch of stuff I don’t need at Target. It was a good night. I think we’re going biking and then to the Chinese New Year in Chinatown on Saturday.

That is all. I must work!

Wow…

“Only 13 Percent Of Congressional Republicans Believe In Man-Made Global Warming”. I love how 13% of R, and it’s 94% D… Wow…

“Snickers Superbowl Web site promotes violence against gays and lesbians. Bears & Colts players react in disgust, on camera, to gays.”. Thankfully they have now pulled this Ad.

I got yelled at by the bitch at the grocery store the other day. I had a basket full of shit, and I always just set the basket on the belt. I mean. Why bother unloading it, if you put it on the belt, then the cashier can just put it in a stack at the END of the isle so that it’s easier for the baggers/etc to put them back by the door. And either way it’s really not that big of a deal. It’s not like it’s going to break something. So I get up to the front of the line and the bitch says. ‘Next time empty the basket and leave it at the end”. Umm, excuse me? You talk to your customers like that? Fuck you. The next day I was at the store again and she was working. I only bought an onion, but I was SOOO tempted to wait in her line and just set the fucking basket on the belt again. Stupid bitch.

Nothing much really going on. Today has been hectic!! I’m spinning 7 different projects, all of them have show-and-tells coming up in the next 2-3 days and it’s getting really frustrating. I have changes coming from every direction and stuff. And three of them have the same freaking name! I can’t keep track of them! lol.

I didn’t even get into the office till 11 today, then things weren’t working and I couldn’t upload the changes and what not. Very frustrating. So now I’m sitting in and empty office so that things actually work! One of the projects I presented 2 different themes to last week. They picked the one that I thought looked the worst. Oh well, it still looks good though!

I ended up buying the new camera. It should be here tomorrow. I’m very excited for this, but still pissed that I had to spend the money on it. I should get a retractable cord for this one! lol.

Last night Ben came over again and hung out. Good times. I made Chicken Pizza. It was excellent. What can I say! I think tonight we’re all going out to Beige again. But not sure, people are iffy and I’m tired and what not. Plus I really don’t want to run into you know who again!

Ok. I gotta go, way to much going on. Later!

Double Hits

Well. I had a big long post here yesterday and for some reason it got deleted when I went to save it! Ugh!

Anyways, Wed work was horrible after only getting 2 hours of sleep! I was just so not very createive and the boss was asking me to be. It was horrible.

That night Ben came over and he was very talkative and we had a great time. As I said, we watched babel. We had a good time. He’s going home this weekend, so I won’t get a chance to hang out with him again till Mondayish.

Thursday was good. Work was typical, I guess our VP was in another accident so a bunch of projects that I should have been working on, I didn’t have the information for, so nothing got done on those. Made headway on another list that I’ve been putting off for a while though. Went to the gym after work and biked for 45 minutes. I went pretty easy and it said that I burned 300 calories. I wonder how accurate that is to being moved over to the real world. Because I typically go about twice as fast as I was at the gym, and for twice as long. I wish I could have a cal/heart rate monitor for my real world biking. Maybe I’ll go buy one this weekend.

Had one of the worst dates of my life that night. It was VERY VERY awk, the guy says he’s only 27, but he looks 37. I kept trying to talk to him and he just kept giving one word answers and shit. Very annoying and stupid. I got there and like 5 minutes into it I txted Jason. “Save me!”. lol. UGH!

Trying to find stuff to do for tonight. I’ve invited 3 people out, of course they are all maybes. So yeah. Who knows. I’d really like to try and get to meet up with some of these people I’ve been chatting with online. It’s just so difficult because our schedules never mesh damnit!

I downloaded a ton of Japanese language classes from this site. So I’m going to start listening to them in the car. I’m a bit annoyed though because there’s no easy way to get them in the correct order on my iPod! For some reason it’s all messed up! I’m getting really scared for my class!

I was sent this link the other day from “Love God’s Way Ministries”:

1 – Gay Bands

2 – Safe Banks

OK. Anyone notice that A) there’s WAY more “Gay Bands” then safe bands? And B) I think there’s more ACTUAL gay bands on the “safe bands” list! haha. Stupid gay haters!

So last month my blog had TWICE the number of unqiue visitors over the month before. Kinda strange considering that from 01/06 – 12/06 there’s only about a 300+/- difference each month and then from Dec06-Jan07 the unique people doubled! It’s just a bit scary and cool at the same time. Hopefully some of those people will continue to come back!

Every day that goes by I want to txt Mayko and just say. “Are you serious”. This is really annoying.

I went to the store the other day and was carrying a big heavy box out. I opened the door and was walking out when the door SLAMMED into the back of my hand. I now have a HUGE bruise across the back of my hand and it really hurts to move it too much.

Sayonara!