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Sans Time
The semester is almost over with a month or so to go. All my classes have been great and I’m doing well in them. I’m more worried about my political science class than anything else. Everything else is fine.
I thought going to university would be more active on working on my website but I was wrong. Obviously, since I have not been updating my journal. It has just been constant stream of school work and other things coming up.
I have however joined Twitter recently, which I plan to add the RSS feed to the side bar once I begin to work on the site again. So if you have the notion of what I’m doing find me on there. Join and add me too.
I saw TMNT over the past weekend with Dee. It was fantastic and they used some of their classic phrases. Although I was disappointed they didn’t refer to their shells like “What the shell!” or “Lets get the shell outta here!” After watching the movie we went to the store to buy the first season of the classic cartoon on DVD. It brought up so many memories of my childhood. I remember having the VHS tapes of the first few episodes and watching it over and over in true kid like fashion. It’s a lot like how I watch King of the Hill and South Park over and over.
Rockin’ Robin
The first two days of class were good. The walk to campus is kind of tough for me; but I think things will get better once I condition myself to walk twenty minutes every morning. My apartment is still a bit empty. I have two big pillows to sit on in the middle of the living room and a light. The bedroom has my bed and my computer. I just need a couch and I think it will be nice. I will be coming to Houston this weekend, and I will most likely be playing the drums because I miss having them around to play when I am stressed or worried and whenever I feel like rockin’ out.
Dee and I saw Good Shepherd and Children of Men. Two great movies that I would recommend everyone to go see. Children of Men was a lot less sci-fi than I thought it would be. Although it was a more logical setting of the future. There was not enough Julianne Moore in it though. I assumed she would because she was second billed for the movie, and she had less screen time than any of the other supporting actors. We also went to Red Robin and The Tap Room which both have great hamburgers. I think Red Robin has a better selection though.
Heroes starts again tomorrow!
Flat line equals frantic endeavor
I’m still feeling “under the weather” it’s been weird. I’ve never had my nose this congested in my life, and my throat still hurts. I’m hoping it will simmer down by this weekend because Dee will be in town. There is one cure for a sore throat that I discovered; where you place a slice of pickled ginger on your tongue for thirty seconds. I believed that it helped relieve the pain. The weird thing about this is that almost every commercial I’ve seen lately has been for pills and sprays to help a running nose or sore throat. Well my sore throat is some what gone and it’s just a bunch of dry coughs and stuffy nose. I have no idea what this is, and it can’t be strep throat because I have no fever.
I got the new Coheed and Cambria DVD and The Prize Fighter Inferno album in the mail on Monday. Watching Coheed play live is always amazing. I still watch their first DVD and being amazed by how cool they are. I really wished they had played “33″ or “Mother May I.” I haven’t played The Prize Fighter Inferno album much. I just end up playing back ‘Who Watches The Watchmen?” over and over. It’s a really great song. Claudio should do more electronic songs because I think his voice compliments it perfectly. The album is the prequel to the now “The Armory Wars” saga of Coheed and Cambria. I suggest listening to it if you are into Coheed and into the story line.
My pixel shirts project has been in a hiatus because of the impending tests, papers, and other stressful things in my life right now. It’s a project that I really want to accomplish but I guess that it won’t be complete for a long time. I’m sorry if you’re watching it and there hasn’t been anything. I probably would have finished by now because I’ve worn just about every shirt I own since I started the project.
Disco is amazing.
I want Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day
and CSS: The Missing Manual
Deep
It was a very long week for me. My Anthropology paper was final an hour before it was due. Dee helped me by reading it over and giving me suggestions. I hope that I did a good job. It was also a depressing week because I found out that I did terrible on my History mid-term. To not feel more depressed I will just say that I have to now drop the class. I really don’t want to have a poor grade on my record; after-all I am just taking these classes to transfer. I don’t have the brains for History.
I ordered from Deep Elm and received a few CDs. I went for the 5 samplers for $5 deal, “No Matter Where We Go..!” by Latterman, and “Tossing a Friend” by MUCKAFURGASON for free. I think Latterman is a really good band. It’s a very energetic album and I wish I knew more bands with their kind of sound. They have been said to sound like Dillinger Four, who are one of my favorite punk rock bands.
CSS Mastery
I recently bought CSS Mastery over the weekend. It contains a lot of the latest CSS techniques and information about browser bugs and ways to get around them. I haven’t read many books on CSS techniques and I really needed a new one on what is being done by the masters recently. After the first two chapters I really wanted to recode my whole website. Which will be the plan within the next few weeks. Apparently I’ve been using div and id tags too much in my code. It’s just the way I have done it for a long while. There is a better review of it in the current issue of Treehouse Magazine.
I did some nice websites over the week and I really wanted to update my portfolio with them. The only reason why that never happend was because I bought the book. This seems like a better place to post selective websites I did this week. I will probably post more details to them later and add the links to what it looks like live.
I-10 Auto Auction
This is one of my favorites of what I’ve done so far. I spent most of the two hours of initial design time on the header and menu. We didn’t recieve much content so it was quite easy finishing that.
Vintage Glamour
This site design was fun to work on. I didn’t want to spend too much time on it because we were unable to contact them for their logo and content. It is a pretty simple design that worked out the way I wanted it.
Parsons Mortgage Group
One of the many mortgage websites our company has done. We’ve used just about every stock photo of a house out on the internet. I found a dover illustration of a nice house on a illustrations CD that I bought years ago and I really think it looks great with the green. It makes me think of the clients location.
Cypress Heating and Air-Conditioning
This is a pretty well designed layout that I’ve done. I’m glad this client had a good logo to begin with. A lot of the small companies that come to us don’t have one and we have to try and come up with it in a short time.
My lungs are breathing open air
I got my hands on Saves The Day’s new acoustic cd. It’s called Bug Sessions Volume One named because of Christopher Conley’s recording studio Electric Lady Bug Studio. The cd has seven tracks spanning from all of their full lengths. It is nice to hear him sing some of the old songs in a different way (older). I’ve been a fan of whatever Saves the Day records, and this one will be playing in my Jetta for a while. That is until their new album Sound The Alarm is released April 11th. Everyone who enjoys the way Saves The Day’s sound is going would immediately love this acoustic release.
Track List:
- Cetain Tragedy
- In My Waking Life
- Freakish
- You Vandal
- Sell My Old Cloths, I’m Off to Heaven
- My Sweet Fracture
- Jodie