I’m chillin on the couch, geekin out. I had a fairly good week at work, and it’s Friday/very early Saturday right now.

The weather is supposed to be fantastic tomorrow. 50s, sunny, gorgeous Bend weather after surviving the winter. Jeannie and I are taking Delaney to the park tomorrow, and possibly Nana’s (my mom) after that. Nana has a park of her own in her backyard.

Delaney is way too smart for her own good. She sings the alphabet song now. it’s kind of like, a, b , b, b, m, x, w, w, w, s, b, b, lmno for the time being, but it shows much promise. I’d bet she’ll be reading at age 3 if not before.

I so totally love my life. I have an awesome wife, who has given me an awesome daughter. Life is good good good.

You should hear delaney and her letters. W is double-doo, double-doo….my lord it is cute. She loves W. the letter, not the tool running the free world. Sam and Taylor, I hope our children get to play together at the Counrty Fair or something. I’m sure they’d get along nicely.

Lovey lovey lovey. That’s where I am right now. Hagen is passed the fuck out on the couch next to me. And I’d swear I drank more than him. But whatever….

and all my readers, frantically checking their live bookmarks for new posts. yeah.

So, I took a couple of days off of work this week, but not by choice. I was lucky enough to catch a nasty stomach flu bug that took me down for Monday and Tuesday. Nothing like going 100mph then hitting a wall and being completely out of it for two days. weak.

My blog/podcasting project at work is going quite nicely, thanks to Jake. Nothing like a nice linux webserver on a fat pipe with someone local to talk to if anything springs up. The next wave of it will spring up next week, with a site that will actually have something cool to blog/podcast about. Our first episode is live coverage of/participation in the big ‘ol public pillow fight in SF. We got some good footage, and we’re working with a good company down there to help us produce it. I like working on video projects a great deal - in fact I think that’s my favorite part of my job.

We had a wicked cold spell in Bend last week, but thankfully we’re back up in the 40s-50s already. So much easier to deal with. At least it looks nice through the office window.

New in Eastside Bend Safeway…

Sierra Nevada IPA!

Word. A classic NW IPA. Thick and meaty, it won’t let you down. It has a smoky, full taste, and won’t leave you hangin’. An IPA in the classic sense, where the malt character doesn’t everwhelm the hops.

Pick one up if you get the chance. Kelly green packaging, sick, sick, sick.

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.