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ask your doctor about Myzithraâ„¢


Hank

Had lunch with my old photography boss yesterday.. Hit some new shi-shi Cuban / Puerto Rican / Tapas restaurant down in the U-City Loop.

Duck and pork meatball hoagie with melted Chiuaua Cheese and roasted peppers.

Great visit as always… She asked to look at some of the photography I’ve been doing for projects. She was gracious and constructive… I was, of course, neurotic.

Spent the afternoon with a client. I’m only now starting to learn the power of project scheduling. Now if i can fit that piece together with understanding retainers, work will become… well… less tense.

The guys struck again with their dime-store finds and gave me “Hank – the incredible growing monkey”.

You’re supposed to put him in water and he grows to seven times his size. The process isn’t terribly pretty though – So far, since submerged in water, Hank looks to be suffering from a disfiguring illness.

Kirby blipped a message asking if I had ever heard of Myzithra… I said no of course and wondered how he got a urinary tract infection.

My assumptions were wrong.

Myzithra is a Greek cheese, sort of like a dry, powdery version of Feta. *And a great excuse for an impromptu dinner party.

He headed over after work, Mysithra in-hand. Cooked up a mess of pasta and mixed in the cheese, fresh basil, garlic, extra virgin olive oil and butter.

It was yummy as was the company.

After dinner socializing followed by a little uno and everyone was off and to bed before eleven.

Sorry – can’t blog – gotta go lick the cheese grater.

nomad

workin in the garage

Spent the morning putzing with email and charming a check out of the primary client. I hate being so dependent on one account to make the house payment. This must change in 2004.

The afternoon came sooner than I had hoped and before I knew it I was rushing out the door with every metrosexual bag I own strapped to my body.

It was the staff meeting for JJ’s Clubhouse and the scheduled day to take some snaps of the staff for their website which is in the process of, (not to mention in dire need of) a complete overhaul.

Their original site was thrown together sloppily shortly after they opened 4 years ago and it’s been a thorn in my side ever since. I just didn’t give it the design-love it needed, and stranded Kevin with the bulk of the project. It’s my fault… In 2000 I still had a very bad attitude about designing for the web. Through the nurturing peer-mentor support of chrisglass, practical experience, and Kevin getting spooky good at actionscript and other code-whizy crap,… we’ve now got a few web projects that I’m actually proud to show off.

Jeff left a note for the staff to all show up in their “work outfits”, which – for a butch gay bar means jeans, bar t-shirts and other tough-guy accessories.. (vests, chaps, little leather caps, etc).

Spent an hour taking each employee back to the clubhouse, (a huge converted garage attached to the main bar which opens on the weekends). Despite being a little frustrated with the unpredictable ancient camera-mount strobe, (I’ve owned since college), which actually works on the Sony, I had a lot of fun.

In the spirit of our new “nomad” business model for the new year – I set up shop in the back and got to work on other JJ’s projects while they had their staff meeting.

I really miss taking pictures.. If you ask me now why my career path didn’t go that way, I’m not sure I could tell you why. I’m half tempted to ask Kevin to arrange our budget to acquire some lighting kits this year so I can play more. I’d have to play catch up on many things though…

Maybe I should ask Suzy Gorman (*previously non-blogged – *no we didn’t do her site, though would love to), if she’d hire me as an assistant once a week so I can re-familiarize myself with studio gear – which I’m sure has changed over the last decade.

Maybe I should stop rambling like some kind of babbling bloging idiot.