Pet Alien — Very “Calvin and Hobbes”-ish, with a little extra-terrestrial twist.

Hurry, hurry. Step right up. Place your bets right here. Will my 1991 GMC Safari minivan make it to the end of the year? As it stands now, the “Check Engine” light is on more than it’s off, the ignition is all kinds of fucked up, the drivers-side window is stuck up, and the passenger-side window is stuck all the way down. On top of that, I barely have enough money for bills, let alone repairs. Anyone takers out there? ^_^

On the design front, vacation time is over, so to speak. Today at lunch, I took the first steps for the new design. Tonight, I’m going to try and work up a basic layout in FrontPage. I’m even going to try a few new design tools (Adobe GoLive and Allaire HomeSite to be exact). It’s not like I can afford either, but I’m really beginning to dislike the way FrontPage pumps out code. It just makes things that much harder to sort out for minor tweaks by hand.

Dear Mr. Blue — Advice without sounding preachy. Salon sure has an awful lot of good writers, IMHO.

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Lions and tigers and, OK, I’m sick of that now. ^_^

I was forced to defend my character today from one of my co-workers. Nothing major, mind you, but I’m still pissed that I even had to do so. And it was over, of all things, movies. Long story short, when I mentioned one movie I wanted to see but missed out on, The Iron Giant, she said that she “doesn’t sit through that trash”. She didn’t even know anything about the film, but just because I wanted to see it, she thought the worst of it. Talk about guilt by association….

What, I can’t go see a G-rated film? Does she think I don’t have the capacity to appreciate a good story without sex, drugs, and guns? I’m sorry, but I’m a lot more 3-dimentional than that. Once again, it goes to show that some people just don’t think before they open their mouths.

Anyway, enough bitching — new subject. For a while now, I’ve been trying to make some kind of unique symbol for the professional side I’m trying to build up. It was a project I had in class, but at that time I decided to do one for some imaginary company. I’m actually glad I waited until I had a little more experience under my belt. I finally came up with a good concept for a simple logo that can be used for this site, my resume, letterheads, and anywhere else my last name is used. Now to get it on screen….

2,300-Gigabytes for $35 — The sooner this gets to market, the better. I’ve just filled up the 12 GB I have….