It was a fairly good weekend. Saturday we went to Japantown in San Francisco for the Cherry Blossom Festival. The Banana of course wanted to ogle herds of pretty Asian boys. It's a fetish, really. Her Redhead's Logic runs thusly: there are boys who find me attractive just because of my hair color, so what's wrong with finding some of them ( Read more... )

The electrician arrived this morning (the one who *wasn't* too busy bass-fishing), and The Moose woofed the alarm. We went out for greetings/sniffies, and all was well. We repeated this cycle when he returned after a parts run. Good watchmoose ( Read more... )

I've done a lot of corporate ghostwriting in the last several months (not rewriting, which was in a much earlier post). Post-merger letters from mega-corp CEOs, that sort of thing. What is "standard procedure" for presenting ghostwriting experience? How do you handle that section of your portfolio ( Read more... )

After much angsting and agony, I did indeed *completely finish* the style guidelines document, and it is now tagged with my branding, ready to be sent to the client with the invoice (also done ( Read more... )

This morning finds me STILL swimming through invoicing for March. Out of orange juice for the usual breakfast smoothie (OJ, yogurt, protein powder, banana, veggie supplement)...so I bowed to the Universe and got an egg/cheese biscuit from the nearby drive-through, and made an extra-strong pint of PG Tips. Yeah, it's one of THOSE mornings.

So let's ( Read more... )

The effort to send The Mango a letter/card each day is going quite well. In fact, we're watching The Emperor's New Groove* right now, and (aside from making this post) drawing/writing to him. No, I'd never refer to him as The Mango in print, but I'm not above drawing a tree with a grapefruit on it, a banana reading a book , and a mango flying ( Read more... )

Do you ever *see* how your brain works, and just have to smile?

Woke at 2pm to an from MPS client, wanting to have another person review the newsletter. Yes, the one I was looking for printers for. THAT newsletter. The newsletter my business partner (designer) and I worked on until 3am. My jaw dropped.

I noticed the email was only addressed to me, ( Read more... )

I mean OTHER than what I can find by googling. Already on that!

~24 HOUR TURN TIME

Situation: Exasperating, deadline-ignorant, control-freak of a Client has last-minute print job that needs to be done and in her pawshands early Monday morning. Yes, as in just over 24 hours from now. She's at a conference that's at the America's Center.

Doc in ( Read more... )

It was a better day today, and I'm starting to concept cards/letters to send to the boy. One must is a paper ethernet cable/computer/game controller/game--sort of a paper doll of gaming equipment. All ready to assemble. Or weep over. In fact, this may be the longest that boy's been offline in YEARS! Hmmm, there have been the multi-day rafting trips ( Read more... )

The Mango has landed - in Texas. Lackland AFB for Basic Training, in case you missed that bit earlier.

There is a hole in my heart.

Inexplicable, because distance does not change one's welcome nor one's belonging. Perplexing, because I can see this is an attachment and yet it remains. Too disproportionately painful to be just about The Mango.

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