November 16th, 2008
olbermann is kind of a freak, but this is well spoken, nonetheless
…and that’s all i have to say on that.
Current Mood:
Angry
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it’s been an interesting year. this birthday preceeds my 1 year anniversary at whole foods which also marks 1 full year of doing web design as a real gig. there’s some big projects on the horizon, one of which may include a ridiculously overblown and official title down the road. the kids are a year older and growing up fast. there’s a black president. getting somewhat more nostalgic in my old age. turning into a chocolate snob. good times.
i threw this together using erin’s wacom tablet the other night. which just proves that a wacom can make anyone pretend their an artiste.
Current Mood:
Thoughtful
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in 2000, i couldn’t believe that anyone would possibly vote for an idiot like g.w. determined that my vote wouldn’t make a difference in the election anyway, since there was no chance gore would lose, i gave my vote to the green party in an attempt to help them get 3% of the vote and a real shot at the presidential election in 2004. both plans failed.
in 2004, it was so glaringly obvious that kerry was the better choice, and i felt like people obviously wanted a change, i didn’t think it was possible that the country would vote w. in for a second term.
this year, i was afraid that even though obama was the best candidate — and not just the lesser of two evils, but a man who would stand as a president for the people rather than in spite of the people — some unknown factor would cause the vote to go wildly in the other direction. even the “maverick” (read: insane) tactics mccain used in selecting an inexperienced hockey mom from alaska as his running mate — so obviously a desperate cry for help — could have swayed the impetus toward him.
i watched the blogosphere and the twittersphere refreshing msnbc.com and cnn.com for updates on the polls obsessively, refusing to get my hopes up in case something went horribly wrong.
today, i wake up, and i can breathe easy — like a weight has been lifted. for the first time in my life, i can be proud to be an american. and i’m proud to live in the age of the first black president. the age of change.
history starts now.
Current Mood:
Bouncy
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Determined
Scared
i’ve been hard at work working on a new look for this site.
okay, actually not, i’ve been slacking, but i did finally come up with a design that i am going to start building. here’s a peek at the new design.
the new look for jazzsequence.com
Current Mood:
Artistic
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thank god for amy poehler on snl…
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Amused
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so i was really aggravated last night. we just had a major reset done in the cheese department, and i was focusing on the case, figuring out what i should cut. there was some chocolate that i needed to deal with and my big, pretty display i built a couple months ago got pulled down and replaced by rolling racks.
that was annoying, but because our regional analyst person talked to me about it, i was expecting that. i was annoyed because i thought it looked good and i had it somewhat organized the way i wanted it, and the new set had stuff mixed together and the tags were all mixed up. plus there was stuff everywhere.
more annoying, however was when our marketing guy — who was doing a demo in front of really big windows letting in the afternoon sun, came over and said “hey, chris, i thought you should know…your chocolate is melting.”
wtf? i go over to see the halloween display had been moved in front of the big windows since i last worked, with all my specialty halloween chocolate and, in fact, the chocolate had been melting. hi, chris, you need to do a chocolate reset. so i did. the result looks pretty good, but it was annoying to have to come in and deal with some scruffy-faced nerfherder’s brilliant idea to stick the halloween chocolate in front of the frickin’ window. i mean, seriously. whose brilliant idea was that? so far i’ve had no answers (not that i think anyone would take credit for it to me, considering how pissed i was). so here’s the new chocolate set, halloween candy included:
beyond the annoyance of having to do the reset, that’s $65 of lost chocolate now, that’s unsellable, and while that could have been a lot worse and we generally make a pretty big margin on most of the chocolate, it’s still lost sales and our department hasn’t been doing fabulous with the change in seasons, the economy, etc. not to mention the fact that my whole day was spent on that instead of other things.
so i came home and made myself feel better with an herb-crusted fleur de france brie and yummy cambozola (a german cross between the italian blue, gorgonzola and the french camembert brie) on la panzanella croccatini which, in my opinion, is the best cracker for cheese. they’re big flatbreads and kind of unruly, but they’re awesome and crunchy and not too thick like some other croccatinis. the cambozola was a bit more -zola than cam- having sat in our fridge for a few days, but still tasty. the evening was capped with some hornsby’s crisp apple hard cider which, i’ve decided, doesn’t suck.
Current Mood:
Annoyed
