After work, Justin and I snuck out to the Hideout, for a quick beer. We talked a bit about work (like we can avoid that), and thing shifted to the "database lessons" Justin promised me. For my help with his niece’s Flash photo gallery, he’s going to help me on whatever project I have in…
Mr. Grumpy, boxing fan extraordinaire, sent me a copy of HBO’s Legendary Nights: Chavez-Taylor. Thanks, G!
Stayed late tonight, to work with Justin on one of his personal projects. He’s putting together a Flash gallery for his niece, and I helped him with a modified version of the Flash photo gallery I’ve made. We scaled it back down from Flash 6 to Flash 5, and added more graphical elements… turned out…
Most days, guitar man stands at the corner of the Merchandise Mart, right on Wells by the river. He’s an older black man with a beat-up acoustic guitar, greying dreadlocks, and occassionally talks to folks that walk by. Most of the time, he’s just standing out there: not begging for money, just standing there… waiting…
This morning, on the train, I was standing behind a guy (seated) who was studying. He had one of those 20-page handouts, printed on that thin, tan-colored paper – pictures of road signs and what they mean, diagrams of cars and intersections. Obviously, he was studying to pass his driver’s exam, and I thought it…
An interior shot of the next "Ultra Crib" apartment. Ultra Crib is a contest that’s sponsored by Q101, and one of the very first ever microsites I did at my current job. All in all, it’s a rather amazing contest. You get to win an apartment (rent paid for a year), along with a wide…
Driving out to New Concord, OH. Heading to Jim and Meghan’s for a party, where a lot of old MFA folks are going to be drinking and hanging out. Technically, this shot was taken on my way back home to Chicago… but it gives you a good sense of the openness and green. I’ve been…
I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. Yesterday was a blast, and I’ve got a ton of pictures from this apartment near the lake. I’m looking to update tonight. Didn’t get around to updating the blog beacuse I got home pretty exhausted. And by pretty exhausted, I mean pretty drunk. :|
Got back into Chicago around 6:30 PM, Chicago time. Twice, on the drive back, I had to pull over at a rest area and get a brief nap in. Thought I got somewhat caught up on my sleep, but apparently not. This has been a lot of driving, in two days. Took me roughly 7…
I wake up on the futon in the living room, 6:30 AM. Time to shower, throw some clothes into a bag, and make my way to Ohio. :) Woohoo!
I didn’t get done with other things at work until around noon. I took off and, thinking about my trip to Columbus today (err.. tomorrow), I stopped in at Artisan to buy some cheese. Daniel let me taste one that I liked a lot (called Zamorano – a cheese from Spain, made from sheep’s milk)….
Incidentally, this is what I was working on for a good while. Ben’s design, my Flash. Oh, and one of the coolest things is that all the artist areas are driven by XML (as are the sponsors, sorta). One of the tricker requirements this time around with this microsite was that they wanted the ability…
It’s sorta sad, but we now have a term for the beers we drink after pulling an all-nighter. :) We started the "victory beer" back at the tail end of last year. At the time, there were several cases of Budweiser around (radio promotional stuff). After working a full 24+ hours, we decided we were…