Domestic Geek

Day-um! Where did my weekend go? Oh, yeah, I put in 11 hours of OT at work helping Marcus on a network changeover on Saturday, passed out from exhaustion Saturday night after a week of little sleep due to menstrual issues and hard work and then was back at work today for a few hours helping Marcus run some cable to my "new" (to me) work computer and surfing while he attended to minor network problems that arose from Saturday's work. I'm still exhausted.

I hope I have a new template in place before Blogathon. I need to tone my vision of this theme down, I think. I'm illustrating all the various elements myself and I'm such a perfectionist that I'm getting bogged down in details. Stuff that the average visitor probably won't even notice anyway.

I like using iChat except that you can't connect with Yahoo users. A lot of my online friends have YIM rather than AIM. Unfortunately, you can't use Trillian on a Mac. I installed a cool free chat app on my Mac today that I read about in Marcus' Mac Life magazine. It's called Adium and you can connect to various chat services at once. I tried it to send messages to Colleen during her Colleenie Weenie Show over on the Blog Talk Radio network. It seems to have worked since she mentioned my comments.

So, I'm a little behind due to working this weekend. I need a day off, darned it.

A few minutes ago, I was catching up on some blogs I haven't had time to read much lately and read at post at Radhole about a Denver Kwik-E-Mart. He has some great photos posted.

Apparently 7-Eleven has remodeled eleven of their stores nationwide to publicize the upcoming July 27th opening of the new Simpson's movie. Here's a Denver Post story about the Denver Kwk-E-Mart that is at 3rd and Broadway. I do think it's a little lame that 7-Eleven wouldn't contract with vendors to get Duff beer:

But they won't find Duff beer, the brand chugged by Homer Simpson. The movie will be rated PG-13, and selling a Simpson-themed beer "didn't seem to fit," said Rita Bargerhuff, a 7-Eleven marketing executive. "That was a tough call, but we want to make sure it's considered good, responsible fun."

I pass by that location at least three times a week. I'll have to stop in.

See, this is what I knew would happen. I feel like it's Friday since I don't have to work tomorrow. That means I'm not going to want to go to work on Thursday because it will feel like Sunday and the last two days of the week are gonna draaaaaaaaaag. Mid-week holidays are absolutely stupid. I envy those that could take the whole latter part of the week off.

How can the weekend be over aleady? Man, I am so happy and excited about how my new design is shaping up that I don't even want to go to work today just to play with it. I have, however, discovered that I really suck (for now) at illustrating people. I need to practice that and get better. I can see it in my mind, I just can't quite transfer it to pixels. No worries.

Man, I've got to go to the store and get myself some lunch (we have no food in this house) and a couple of other things, but I don't want to go out. It's hot out and I just want to sit around and be lazy all day and soak my feet in ice water.

I'm reading the first 6 Harry Potter books in anticipation of the arrival of book 7. That reminds me: Note to self - make 10 day countdown HP graphics like you had last year.

I need more money coming in. Anybody reading this willing to pay to have graphics designed for your web site or any graphic design work done? I guess I'm going to have to start using that skill because I really don't want to have to work pizza or retail (mostly because I don't want to deal with people that won't speak English). It's hard enough dealing with customers that do speak Englsih, y'know?

OK, must get moving.