Archive for November, 2002

Naive parenting advice to my future self #2

Thursday, November 28th, 2002

Raising and training your human puppy
Until your baby is two years old, just apply everything you know about dog training. That’s because until he can talk, your baby will be more or less like a dog in terms of social skills and reasoning ability. In fact, for the first year he’ll make Mouse seem sophisticated. [...]

Quality time

Tuesday, November 26th, 2002

Pico has been moving a lot more throughout the day lately, even though I’m not really stressed out or anything. I like it. It’s like instead of just having a big gut I’m actually in a weird way spending time with this little person. I can’t really explain it… it’s just neat.
I’ve been dreaming about [...]

A thousand ideas

Monday, November 25th, 2002

“I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing….”
Edison said that. Of course, that son of a bitch had a thousand ideas and got there.
I was driving today and listening to the greatest variety of today’s hits [...]

Bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue!!

Friday, November 22nd, 2002

Why do people say they feel blue when they feel down? I think feeling grey would be a much better term. Or cloudy.
But today there is a big beautiful windy blue November sky outside, and all my work for the day is done.
You’re so jealous of me right now.

It’s a good thing I don’t have super powers or right now you’d be in a thousand little pieces!

Wednesday, November 20th, 2002

Stupid client argh can’t make up your rarrarryar freakin frackin
This is not a business problem!
This is not a design problem!
I was hired to design pieces for 26-32 year old women who are getting married! Not for 45 year old never-been-married entrepreneur control freaks who don’t know what they like and don’t know what they want [...]