Entries tagged with 'Work'
New Ventures in Capitalism
October 23, 2008
How's your brain? Are you taking good care of it? Feeding it daily? Learning new things?If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you are not the work-from-home parent of a two year old toddler. The Varmint has... Read more >
Mac'n with My Mak
May 5, 2008
Since I've switched to using a MacBook Pro from a PC laptop, things have been a lot more fun around here. Including me. Simply put, I no longer suffer from The Grumpies. (The Varmint actually calls them 'The Bitchies', but... Read more >
Holding It All Together By a C-Clamp
June 9, 2007
Way back on our wedding anniversary, May 22nd, the main computer for our design business experienced a meltdown. We took it into the shop, with the result of a good-news, bad-news scenario. The bad news: The coolant sprung a leak... Read more >
Farewell HDTV (Or, Dan McAllister, We Hate You)
May 23, 2007
So just yesterday, on our anniversary, I wrote with glee how well things were going. Unfortunately, the Universe was listening in and decided to pee pee on my positivity parade. Not only were we enjoying a wickedly happy marriage, I... Read more >
Wet Paint
May 16, 2007
It only took a year, but our studio officially has a fresh coat of paint. Adieu, Hardy Panel beige! Hell-o uber-urban camouflage. I took forever to select the palette for this thing, mostly because we plan to use it as... Read more >
Call the Men in White Coats
July 18, 2006
Imagine yourself driving home after a long day at work. You're about to pull into your driveway, maybe thinking about that ice-cold beer in the fridge - when you look over and see your next-door neighbors doing this: What would you... Read more >
Overheard - The Nightmare Client
January 18, 2006
Today at work, The Varmint and I have been negotiating the trickiest of all clients: The Frustrated Graphic Designer. He wears the dark-rimmed glasses. He waxes on using words like "minimalist" and "organic" and "Warholian" in the same sentence. He... Read more >
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