Domestic Geek

Well, it came to my attention, during a conversation last night at dinner where I was lamenting that I had left my cell phone at home or I could've moblogged Marcus eating wings, that anybody aware of my moblog email address could simply spam my blog with posts. Since I had picked areally lame email to use (moblog at, etc.), anybody could just send posts here. Well, I changed the email addy and turned on th eusername/password required feature. Should take care of posts like the one before this one. Now I'm tesing it to see if the changes took effect and I'm emailing this post to DG. Now, it would be nice if you could setup text templates on my phone because this is going to be more difficult to moblog since I have to submit extra stuff. Oh, well. All the more reason to get my financial act together and save up for an iPhone, eh?

Marcus and I have always talked about getting bumper or window stickers printed and possibly selling them. I was hoping to get them done back when I was working at the screen printer since I could get a discount through any one of our vendors, but the company went out of business before I had the chance.

There's a site online called 1-800 Stickers where I can get custom stickers printed for an extremely reasonable price. With only a minimum order of 250 stickers, we could probably swing that in the near future. There was a wide variety of sizes and shapes available. Being a graphic designer, I liked the detailed artwork submission guidelines they provide. It's definitely a mark of a reputable printing company. They also offer free design services for those with great ideas, but lacking design talent.

For those in the printing know, they print the stickers on durable vinyl with light-fast inks and a UV-resistant coating, meaning they'll last, even outside. They won't crack, bubble or fade. They're also printed at 150 line screen — that's photo quality. They also have 1-2 color and full color labels available, which I could probably put to use once I get my embroidery business off the ground.

Now, what would make a good bumper sticker?

I have been doing a lot of web wandering the last couple of days. I don't know how I came across it, but I saw this really cool Simpsons drawing that was posted on deviantART (an online art community if you're not familiar with it):


The Simpsonzu by *spacecoyote on deviantART

The artist did such a remarkable job that somebody took notice:

*spacecoyote was offered work with Bongo Comics owned and started by none other than Matt "Simpsons" Groening. She will be doing pencil work for a short manga style version of the Simpsons and on top of that has been contacted by 20th Century Fox to potentially work on the upcoming relaunch of Futurama!

How freakin' awesome is that?

Here's the original work the artist based the drawing on:

I used to have time to watch a lot of daytime soaps. Back in college I was a huge General Hospital and Young and the Restless fan. Later, I watched Another World. More recently I was really into Days of Our Lives and Passions. Now that I'm back working full time again and I no longer have the Soap channel on my dish, I've lost track of what was going on. I tried keeping up on the NBC site, but they don't really part with a lot of information and I don't really have time to stand around the grocery store reading the Soap Opera magazines, either. Now I can go to Soaps.com to find out the latest news and story lines. It's got all the info you could ever want about your favorite soap. The only thing that would make the site more awesome is if it had some past story line recaps and some family trees. Sometimes I lose track of who is related to whom and who was married when, etc. I was saddened to read that Passions has been cancelled. That's too bad.

Last year (or more likely the year before that since I wasn't in a Christmas decorating mood at all last year), I realized I had two light bulb testers. I probably bought the 2nd one at an after Christmas 90% off sale at Hobby Lobby or something, not realizing I already had purchased one. Well, I needed to find one because part of the light string on the tree was out. Could I find either one? NO! I finally found one in a box of stuff that I had contemplated selling on eBay (like anybody would buy my extra Xmas light tester). You'd think I would have put it in with the spare light bubs. Nope. I'm sure it will turn up someplace totally stupid.