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(late)

I’ve been spending some time editing photos I took of my brother. I’m trying to key out the green screen we used. It shouldn’t be too hard, but sometimes chroma key can be touch and difficult.

until later

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(late)

Today I didn’t feel like doing anything. I was feeling tired and kinda out of it. We all have these days. So, I did very little.

until later

346

(late)

I’m constantly trying to keep myself busy so that i have things to write about. I’m finding that it’s rather hard. Some days I don’t really do anything but watch video tutorials and go to work. I sometimes don’t feel like doing the tutorials, so I just watch other things and screw off on the internet until I have to go to work. it was kinda nice having a day job simply because it gave me something to do. Now that I’ve been laid off from my job I need to find things to keep me busy. Luckily web design is vast and I have tons of information available to me through Lynda.com. Unfortunately, there’s nothing quite as boring as watching video tutorials. It’s really not too much fun. But, I have learned a lot in the last couple weeks. I now understand CSS and can build functional web pages. So that’s good.

until later

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I got up a little late because Kim didn’t have to be in to work until 11ish, so we stayed warm. Once up I got dressed grabbed my equipment and shot out the door to go down town for a photoshoot with my brother Geof Happens. Geof is preparing to be an announcer for the Rose City Rollers and is trying to build a personality. So, I took my camera and lights and got some pretty awesome shots. After the shoot I spent a little time setting up his soon-to-be website. It shall be interesting to see it all come together.

Kim met me at five and we went home to grab some food before going to see Stella. It was a great show! I’ve been a big fan for a while now. Following them sense they were in ‘The State’.

until tomorrow

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Today was mostly spent with Mike working on web stuff. We got to a stage were we have to wait until he is able to finish some of the back end coding for us to move forward. But everything is looking good.

I’ve been practicing bass and I’m getting my muscle memory back. It’s always an interesting process to get your body to do something that it did regularly for a while after not doing it regularly for years. It can be frustrating at times because you feel like you should be able to do right away but you can’t.

This week I will mainly be practicing bass, working on web designs and watching video tutorials. I told myself that I would get good at this stuff and I’m going to no matter how boring it may be some times. Perseverance!

349

(I’ve gotten behind)

Sunday, I got up late because it’s my usual day off. Kim and I went and did our shopping run which we usually do on Sundays because we have the day off together. So, we got a lot of food which will hopefully keeps us good for a couple weeks.

After shopping we got home and chilled out for a little while before going up to my mom’s place for dinner. After dinner we played a board game and looked a pictures from my mom’s box of pictures that go back a long way. It was interesting and fun.

350

(1 day late)

I had a pretty interesting day. I got up and did some work at home, web design stuff mainly, and watched a few video tutorials. Then I got all my stuff together and headed over to Ryan’s place. I was going to jam with him to get a feel for how each other play; a sort of try out for his band. First we went over some design features he wanted to incorporate to the layout we already had. This involved placing the new name font design and character logo into place. With these elements in place we did some overhauling in general to make the site pop! Ryan is now very pleased with it, so I’m accomplishing my job very well. After working on design we picked up our guitars and jammed. I was a bit nervous but also really out of it because I hadn’t eaten anything yet and my blood sugar was crazy low making me spacey and lightheaded.

I took of from Ryan’s to meet up with Mike to work on the site some more. We changed over all the design elements Ryan and I had made and got the site looking dope and functional. A little more attention to the back end coding and we’re going to have a kick ass site. I ate, which made me feel levels better and I also got tickets to go see Stella. I’m pretty excited!

Here are some photo’s I took from my brothers concert.

Until Later

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(one day late)

Somehow my counting system seems to be off. So this post isn’t actually 351, but may instead be 350. I’m not too sure yet. But it doesn’t really matter.

So, today was fairly productive. I met up with Lukas Ketner to discuss his website. I had an alpha version for him to check out. He liked it quite a bit but, of course, had some changes he wanted to make. So, this next week I should be getting the fixes done and getting his site posted online at which point I will be a professional web designer. Granted I have a long way to go to be really good at this craft, but thanks to help from Mike Lazear I’m well on my way.

Following that meeting I went to meet up with my boss Mohammed Soriano Bilal for whom I’ve been doing video work for the past 8 or so months. Where he reluctantly had to give me notice that I was being let go do to cut backs. I didn’t take the news poorly. I was expecting it. Mo and I parted after a really good conversation and I went to go get CS4 studio. I found a great deal, and was hoping that it was going to be legit. It turns out that it was and I got a great deal! Sometimes it’s all about being savy and looking for deals. In this day and age if you can save money, do it!

Later in the evening I ended up going to see my brothers band play where I was asked to take pictures. I’ll post some of them soon.

Until tomorrow

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(One day late)

My weekdays are slowly turning into a drone. I have to sit and deal with it until the weekend comes. I’m not however waiting to party, I’m waiting to meet up with people about projects I have in the works. People who also have day jobs and want to get shit done. Currently and most importantly is Mike Lazear. He’s helping me build the Ryan Dain site, which is looking really nice. Also, The weekend is when I get to spend good quality time with my lady, Kim. Even though we live together our schedules are a bit opposing and thus we get in our time on our weekend.

Tomorrow I show Lukas the site I’ve built for him. Let’s hope he likes it.

Until then

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Today has been somewhat uneventful. I did some editing for the final ‘George Watsky’ episode. Plus, I did some more work on Lukas’ website. It’sreally coming together now. I have a few more things to do to make it work great! Now it’s just nice looking.

Then I practiced bass for a while.

Now I park cars. Ugh.

Until tomorrow