dude, I just learned, via the shite news I’m “watching”, that thsy give away a separate grammy for Album of the Year and Record of the Year.

U2 won the Album honors while Green Day took home the Record.

Anyone else remember when records were albums? Weren’t they called record albums?

oh nevermind

so I have just recently stopped working on my work blog/podcasting project for the night.

I’ve spent many, many after work hours banging out a sick WordPress blog for my company. I’m really stoked on the design, it’s got a nice header that I put together, and I really am surprised with the type style and size changes I’ve made to make the FastTrack theme (the one in use here, in barely-modified form) quite enjoyable.

But tonight, working on getting all the podcasting stuff together - audio podcasts aimed at iTunes’ podcast directory, primarily, I find out that I’m fucked.

Yes, fucked. I’m already about a week past when I said I could get it done, and it’s not really, even though I have only gotten the chance to work on it after hours for the most part….seriously, it’s like come home from work, play with Delaney until her bedtime, eat dinner, talk with Jeannie a while I start hittin the ThinkPad, Jeannie goes to bed, and suddenly, it’s 2:30 in the morning. But anyway, I’m stoked on it and willing to put in some extra hours to get it going. Back to being fucked.

I decided, rashly, and under deadline, to go with a Yahoo hosting account due to it’s automatic WordPress install and web tools to configure the account. Cheap, nice features, and they have a big, pretty link on the WordPress Hosting page. Don’t trust that bullshit. They’re fucking lame ass servers that do not support mod_rewrite or .htaccess. So permanent links don’t work without the Yahoo-supplied Customizable Permalinks plugin, which conflicts with the audio-player plugin, which is a really nice, simple embedded-flash mp3 player. Even worse, the really nice set of iTunes podcasting plugins, PodPress, uses the audio-player code to work it’s magic.

So I’d have to add all the crazy iTunes tags to the feeds manually every time a new podcast posted. Which is weak. Perhaps acceptable for the mission at hand (well, probably not actually) but I’m trying to get this shit together so that we could use it much more heavily with some other projects that are cooking in the shop.

Which leads me to my next mission. Find a new, competent, high-test Apache host, move files over to the new host, transfer a domain, and bring it all back up with as little downtime as possible, so that my boss, the author of the blog, would be able to dismiss it as a speed bump on the road to podcasting supremacy.

Keep in mind, this project is already overdue and over-budget. And I pretty much have to be an art director all day long, not a web designer.

And see, the scariest part is, I really like my job. Even tonight. Or this morning, or whatever the fuck it is. That’s probably because I started drinking beer at two a.m., or at least partly, but regardless, it is pretty damn fun. We’re basically launching a new company inside my company without any increase of staff. And it could really be cool - there’s a lot of us really hoping to launch a whole new era for the shop. I should be careful with that though, or I’ll be 40 and have no idea how I got there so fast.

Wow, that is some serious rambling. But I feel better now, and I bet you do too. Er, no, wait…

thanks for listening. er, read…fuck it I’m out.

carry chains. snow flurries with spots of ice.

no really, I’m talking about the condition of the roads in Bend. They are hammered! The parkway is all fucked, many places on my way to work, I mean shit. Let’s get it together and do the proper prep work before paving.

I rant because today, I bent my third and fourth rims of my driving career. Hagen and I, headed back to the shop, turned onto Mt. Washington Drive, the road that leads up past the Athletic Club of Bend, and I hit a pothole which summarily ended the careers of two wheels and one, possible two tires.

Slow speed, I’d guess no more than 15mph. The pothole bent both right-side wheels and cut the right rear tire. I think that the bend and broken bead was the reason the right front went flat, but I can’t really confirm that it is not also damaged. I know for sure however that the right rear tire is cut and ruined. Both rims have a nice, large dent in them now though.

Lame.

making me angry right now.

like, how come my posts feed here reads correctly but no other tribal blogs’ post feed does?

I am looking at the posts feed live bookmarks I have for everyone’s WP blog….mine shows the apostrophe character, but it’s the only one. hmmm….

this all ties in to a bigger, work-related issue I’m having, but I’m over working so fuck it.

Quail Springs IPA is good. It’s different, not what I’d call a standard IPA. But classification aside, it is a really drinkable brew.

Cid always picks it up when he’s in Bend. Then I remember that I like it. I rarely pick it up myself, but since the holidays, DMTri has been bringing it by as well. Good times. It is a really nice set up beer for Mirror Pond.

Pick up a sixer. You’ll be happy.