Sep 29 2005
What’s Going On
This is the first in, what will probably be, many posts that has no particular order or reason. All thoughts and opinions are my own (or at least I stole them and told myself them enough to believe them) and are in the particular order in which they come to my mind.
- I think I just picked up a new project for myself. My wife’s cousin BJ has been making movies with the family for a couple years now (it actually started with my bro-in-law Patrick, but BJ is the director and cameraman, so…). In each movie, almost all (or all) of the family is in the movie, then we have a big premiere night. We tried to convince him to go to film school, but he chose SEOSU (not enough room for that background story). Anyway, I think I’m going to set him up with a website. He’s got some pretty good movies (considering they are basically glorified family films) and I think he should have a place to showcase them. I employed the help of my brother-in-law Eric to help me out. Hopefully we can get some ideas hashed out this weekend.
- I’m also in the process of getting a second version of Commercial Realty Parnters website going. It’s still in the design stage.
- My mom’s birthday is tomorrow. Big surprise coming in that one!!!
- Is $25/year for a Flikr account really worth it when you have your own website? Maybe it is. A lot of people have a Flikr section on their websites that display random pictures.
- I’m dying to get into PHP and MySQL, but at the same time, when I sit down to read my book, I always get tired.
- My cousin-in-law’s flag football team (of which I am the offensive coordinator) is off to a 2-0 start. Our last game was against the (supposebly) best team in the 4-team league and we won 19-12. After a rough start (I think we had like 4 fumbles and an INT in the first 2 drives - btw, fumbles are dead balls), we managed to come back in the second half and pull one out. It was then I realized that I’m way too competitive to coach a little league team. I’d rather win than play everybody at every position. However, it seems that most of our parents would rather us win that play their kids at every position as well. So maybe it’ll work out.
- My father-in-law just had heart surgery. He had a stint put in one of his arteries that had 90% blockage at one point and 40% at another point. He seems to be doing fine after 2 days and I heard he’s up and around and maybe coming up to work. **UPDATE: He just walked in, ready to work.
- The weather here is awesome right now. 62 degrees and sunny. We opened the windows last night and slept with 3 blankets on us. It was wonderful!!!
- I think I picked up yet another project for myself. I’ve been browsing blogs and I’ve come across several designers that I like to read and I like (most of) their stuff: Avalonstar, JustKyle, SonSpring, just to name a few. And two of them do T-shirt designs. So…I think I’m going to do a T-shirt design for our next NoMo Invitational. Our NoMo Invitational is a competition (usually tennis or bowling) where we divide the family into teams and the winners get to take home the Golden Rackets that my wife made. Anyway, I think we can divide the teams and maybe do some color-coded T-Shirts. Although for tennis we have like 8 teams (we play doubles), so some poor team is going to get stuck with like pink, fuschia, or magenta.
I think that’s it. Anything else, leave me a comment.
Almost since we’ve been married, my wife and I have been sparring over our (Jen’s cousin, my cousin-in-law) 
