Fruits of Labor

So today the magazine that my boss and I have been working on will finally be mailed out to current and previous customers, and I received my own copy of it today. I've designed quite a bit of it, so its great to see a publication get released. Plus I can add it to my resume, which is always a good thing.

Actually, today started off rather poorly because I wasn't feeling very well. I still am a bit achy and have sore throat with off an on headaches. There are a bunch of people sick here at work, so I am praying right now I don't get it. We shall see...

What Are You Saying Exactly?

Despite a minor hiccup with apartment rent getting paid (which was entirely their fault by the way) the week has started off pretty well. Yesterday was an easy work day and there was some decent TV on last night.

Something has been bothering me for a while now though. There is someone on Facebook (who shall remain nameless) who posts the most left-wing radical nonsense on the face of the planet. I absolutely cannot stand it. They will read an article that is factually manipulative and generally the most biased information out there, think its wonderful, and spread it for her entire Facebook friend list to see. Everyone has the right to their own opinions, but most of the information is, if not completely untrue, bordering on factually incorrect. Now, I have decided to take it upon myself, as a public service, to leave comments about all of the worthless and false points in anything that they do.

I don't consider myself a true Republican or a conservative by any means. I'm quite liberal by most accounts. But this person grinds my gears on so many things, that they clearly need to be put in their place to show the world that everything isn't the dreamland scenario that this chronic left-wing nutjob believes it to be.

If they lived close by, I would grab them right now, shake them, and yell as loud as I can:
"WAKE UP AND SMELL THE *&^$%#@!*&^ COFFEE!"


thats all for now, but I'm sure I will have more information further into my crusade against this facebook posting war. 

Smoke on the Water

Before I go into my post, I give you my photoshop creation.... Click on the photo for a bigger image...

So yesterday was the Super Bowl between the Patriots and Giants, and frankly I don't even want to go into it. One of my People I Love to Hate members won, and I'm still no pleased one bit about it. 

Although I must say, we had a nice little feast. BBQ Ribs (that we made ourselves), wings, shrimp, chips and dips. Really good stuff. The commercials were good as well. Not an all out bad experience, it has to be said. 

Chak De PLS?

Finally I've found some interesting information about this league on the company's website:
 http://www.cmg-world.com/

This is the company managing the league, and they have more information on trying to find franchise owners:

http://www.cmg-world.com/FranchiseBrochure.pdf

Interesting information, it has to be said. 

All in Forms

Well, its been my first blog post in a while (even longer without a Photoshop creation attached) but nothing huge has really happened. As the world turns so to speak.  

I've just got into this new show by Lost creator JJ Abrams called Alcatraz. It definitely has a Lost feel (one of my favorite shows of course) but its a bit different as well. I've watched the past two weeks glued to the action. One thing I really like about it is some of the questions it leaves you with at the end of each episode (a la Lost). Now, unfortunately, its not as mind bending as lost is, which is sort of a let down. Its almost as if Fox told Abrams and the writers: We want you to create a Lost-like TV show, but we don't want it to be a thought provoking because we want dumb people to be able to watch it as well. So pros and cons. I'll keep watching, and I think its gotten a decent reception by most, so I doubt it will be canceled. 

In other news, I have had some interesting thoughts recently. The first regards living in a house. I never have considered myself a homebody, but I've been starting to get the feeling that I really want to live in a house that Priyam and I can decorate. We can pick out furniture, paint walls, really expand our lifestyle (and possibly even get a puppy, which is one of my life goals oddly enough). Where has this come from? Who knows, maybe its effective advertising from IKEA or something. Whatever it is, its made me start looking at houses to rent in Albuquerque. The only issue is that we're not quite completely settled here with jobs we'll have for the next ten years and tons of friends etc so getting a house might be a bit ridiculous.

Also, I read about this extremely interesting new soccer league in India with a bunch of former soccer stars:  http://www.firstpost.com/sports/move-aside-cricket-here-comes-the-indian-premier-league-soccer-187002.html

It got me thinking. I really would love to work in soccer. Plus its a new league with a bunch of stars. More to come possibly soon... 

Outta My Life

Well, another day goes by. I changed by twitter background image, you can take a look at it here
(Unless of course you came from there, in which case you've probably already seen it)

Anyway at work this week, I've been helping my boss with a travel magazine that she's been putting together and I've been designing ads for multiple travel operators, including Tauck, which is a high end tour company. This is one of the results of my work. Hope you like it. Click the link to check out the full size. Critiques welcome.

Also, today I'm going bowling as another tour operator, Globus it taking the whole staff to dinner and bowling at Santa Ana Star Casino as a thank you for a great sales year. I haven't been bowling in YEARS. Its been a REALLY long time, so hopefully i don't embarrass myself. We will see...

T-Minus three days until Priyam's B-Day and she's a tad under the weather. I know she'll be really upset if she is sick over her birthday weekend, so I'm doing the most I can to nip it before the weekend comes.

Splatter Tree

So, I made a background in photoshop, see if you like it... click on the picture to view the actual size...

Anyway, its Priyam's birthday coming up on Sunday, and she's actually, for once, excited. I'm happy when she's happy, so that means I'm in quite a good mood.

Work has been super busy, so I come home exhausted and not really in the mood to do anything but veg out. I'm taking Priyam out to Bath and Body Works this evening so she can pick out some more birthday gifts for herself. This works out a lot better than getting her things she doesn't want and her getting upset about them.