Couple Grammes of Soma

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

Work

I got a job this past Friday. My first week was pretty nice. We are working on a global web site project and there are some very solid deadlines for a beta version they want to show at the company meeting in two weeks. That’s a run on sentence. It’s fun jumping into something like that though. Lots to do. Lots to catch up on. Got pretty familiar with browsing shutterstock.com for photos to use in the flash banner.

Our next big project after the global site launch is to implement a CMS for this big contract they just got. They’d like to have different contributors be able to post things that follow the same styling and keep it all organized and still be simple enough for people to post to without being an expert at the interface. I’ve been doing a little bit of research about that and I’m really looking forward to the challenge of picking the best solution and then customizing it to match the brand of the company and the feel of the project.

I may also be getting a copy of the Adobe Creative suite. But that is still up in the air.

I did get this pretty sweet lappy though.

It’s hard to believe it was just a few months ago I went looking for work and now I’ve got a job. Full-time. Here I am. I appreciate the value of my aptitude for technical things now that it’s gonna be paying my bills. Previously I saw it as a rather irritatingly expensive hobby to maintain.

We had champagne at work for the second time in a week. Not bad. I could get used to this.

Not Work

I went to Barnes & Noble after work today. I hate that store. Honestly I do not enjoy it. Although they do have a Starbucks inside, since going to CR I really don’t have a particular fondness for any brand of coffee. Thus I am left to only consider the actual store. And I hate it. Not only could I not find books on typography there, I couldn’t even find a section of books on art. Now I know there was a section that might of been close to what I was looking for but a woman was sitting there and I think she spoke to me when I walked by and so I didn’t want to go back. I just don’t like the way the store feels. Enough.

I did see some books on usability though. I was a little bit disappointed on the fact that they were from ‘02 though. Looked like they had some pretty decent ideas and process for analyzing usability though. Thufte or Tufte, however it is spelled, he’s got cool info in his book. I was just getting a bit of the value of spark lines. I still think I’m missing quite a bit of their value, since I’ve never been trying to convey data like that. Interesting phrase he used though was “activated negative space,” that one is definitely going in the vocab for common use. I should get some time to read those books.

Some deaf people have a cool attitude I think. But I have a pretty limited exposure to them so my impressions are very shallow.

I’m hard to convince.

I need a little pick me up so I don’t stumble down tonight considering staying alive hitchhiking on the disco drive

When I was a swear word the hours were shot-gunned
the hours will get you
the hours will get you

Have you ever felt as if you are consciously choosing to stay sane? I felt like that yesterday. That is, in my book, a development that should be documented. I feel such would be very helpful if I ever made the alternate decision. Pray the future doth not merit such measures.

I think reading is one of the healthiest things I can do. In particul-ARE, as Tavis Smiley would say, with regard to my mental health. I am also convinced that I need to get things out of my head whether by writing them, painting them, building them, photographing them or some other creative expression. It seems over the course of a few weeks without creative expression my mind becomes so muddled up I cannot find a sufficient focus or be content with what I find to occupy my time, no matter how important the current task might be, I feel an overwhelming need to do ’something’ else. There is likely some more trite way to describe that while being all that much more authoritative. I guess that’ll be progress when I find it.

I started the planning stage of KevinNMurphy.com v1.5 PRO. That is what I’m calling the redesign of my professional web identity. I’m also currently working on a redesign for ‘Couple Grammes of Soma’ which I have now given the moniker ‘Kevin N. Murphy at his Leisure’. That will be my more personal blog. I’m currently in the planning stage of ‘ThomasMooreMusic.net’. Bear in mind that when I say ‘planning’ I mean the setting up of the technical stuff, virtual servers, DNS administration, domain registration, WP2.1 installs, and then realizing that it helps to have a plan before trying to code or design stuff. I’ll learn this trade somehow, even if it is the hard way.

She gave orders… she gave orders… to spill my blood I thought