I appear to be 25.
This appears to make me look under my desk all day. (From someone stationed in Baghdad. He was recently bitten by a camel spider which was hiding in his sleeping bag. I thought you’d like to see what a camel spider looks like. It’ll give you a better idea of what our troops are dealing with. Enclosed is a picture of his friend holding up two spiders.)
This appears to do little to dissuade the fear caused via the above.
Heard there is a 90% chance I won’t get paid for one of my last contract jobs. Typical. No, I said typical, not cynical; I have the lack of dough to prove it.
Now, naturally, there is always the 10% I WILL get paid, and her majesty has ordained that I request thrice weekly to be informed of my checks status. At least I’ve made a new contact and friend in the process of dealing with company X. He’s pretty cool… and a designer! w00t!
I don’t think a contract would of helped in this scenario. The project itself isn’t really a portfolio piece, because it doesn’t work on it’s own; it integrates with an online service that I don’t utilize nor do I intend to. I’ll just use as a teaching tool like I did at my last AtlMMUG meeting, I guess, so there’s the silver lining. It was a good thing I got a decent chunk of dough up front, but man, that’s $3,500 potentially gone… boo hoo…
…hehe, thank me lucky stars it’s St. Patrick’s Day! Cheers; Here’s to hoping that 10% comes through.
Rather than sacrifice a worthy blog entry to determine if my DNS entries truly have propagated, I’m just submitting rambling… I need to test my re-re-re-re-re-installation of MoveableType.
…oh yeah, and sorry for the construction. “Pardon our progress” as the Baltimore/Washington Airport up in Maryland put it. ‘Course, they said that for 4 years, my site won’t take that long to get all of my files back up!
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Rememba’ Da 80’s
I learned confidence from Mr. T,
I learned suave Michael Knight;
Knightrider & A-Team on the TV,
Male role-models to learn from at night.
I learned to laugh at it all from Murdock,
I learned da playa-playa from Face,
‘Course when kit pulled up at the end of da block,
The C button confirmed David Hasselhoff wasn’t chaste.
The Dukes of Hazard did mad doughnuts,
Airwolf kicked chopper skillz,
Daisy Dukes drove our father’s nuts,
While a Dodge Charger flew over streams & hills.
The Unknown Stuntman was your other uncle,
Transformers your future job,
You awed as the Goonies stared at One Eye Willy’s treasure like a carbuncle, …and always wondered how the bullet ratio of GI-JOE didn’t make it more macabre.
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Starbucks Friday Night Discussion
“There are only two things I’m sure of life, Erik. One, I can’t live without Brandy. And Two, killing zombies is the only time murder is justified.”
— JesteXL
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Dude, I want to put a waterfall in my backyard. However, her majesty doesn’t think that some of the stones will match the brick of our house… so I drew a rendition of a modified pool (cut in half so you can sit on the sides) of it built into our hill. …I don’t know man, I still want rustic, but not sure yet…
Did I mention not having Perl on a website is a fate worse than death? I truly learned I could not live without MoveableType. Rolling my own blogging solution was NOT an option. Too busy for that stuff. It’s funny how my loyalty dies a quick death, though, when it crashes.
Your Friday OT, via my dad.
My dad (and I) recently lost his dog to old age, a golden retriever named “Sandy”. Naturally, he just bought a new golden retriever puppy. Her name’s “Paris” after <a href=”http://www.maximonline.com/girls_of_maxim/html/girl_998.html”>Paris Hilton</a>.
He relishes this summer where he can parade her down the Ocean City (Maryland) boardwalk, using her as the ultimate chick magnet. Always da playa, playa.
The Cute Paris
<a href=”https://www.jessewarden.com/images/paris oo5.jpg”><img src=”https://www.jessewarden.com/images/paris oo5.jpg” width=”160″ height=”120″ alt=”Paris the Golden Retriever Puppy”/></a>
