right on bro!

I remember today that I used to feel really relaxed on the weekends. My laundry would be done, my apartment would be clean, the bills would be paid, and I’d feel good about watching some semi-cheezy movie on TV to watch.

All of these conditions fulfilled, I realize that I haven’t felt like that in a long time.

Took a break this weekend from doing any work. Feeling pretty good, though. I’m cleaning out the junk from my apartment - old boxes and papers that I no longer need. Coughing from some of the dust that got kicked up.

Bought a passive heatpipe notebook cooler from CompUSA today. I can’t tell whether it’s actually working or not. Anyway, it’s part of a sudden urge I have to buy a bunch of new shit. That, a free (after rebate) set of bakeware from Amazon, and some other crap. Watch me get fired from my job soon after I’m blowing money.

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I ended up playing SOCOM for like 6 hours yesterday. At the end, my eyes were blurry.

Today is a relatively chill day. I’m finally getting some more time on the new laptop and Cubase. Still haven’t worked all of the bugs out, but managed to do a small recording for Matt at 24/96 that turned out relatively OK considering we’re tracking in my kitchen with a cheap guitar and a cheap mic. Haven’t run into any super major glitches, which is good.

whee…

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Hey….so allyou.net is gone, and I switched to rightonbro.com. This is a temporary template while I jeeter up the real thing.

Actually, I’m probably gonna get lazy and just leave this the way it is. Nice work!

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Yes, I live in California. Suddenly, I can’t decide between this candidate or this candidate.

This is going to be a fucking circus…somebody on the Democrat side better get their name out there, fast.

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i wish I knew a lot more about Cubase, otherwise I wouldn’t be banging my head against the wall right now. NIce work!

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Okay…things are quieting down a little. I finally have my first evening in awhile with no previous obligations.

Oh, another highlight of the food tradeshow: the sushi-making robot. I want one of those.

Bought a lottery ticket yesterday….shit’s worth $66 million dollars for Wednesday.

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Tradeshow weekend. There’s still one day left, but it’s going fairly well. We pretty much hit our sales goal, which was a relief for proof-of-concept for this idea. If anything, the tradeshow illustrates some fundamental problems we have with our company, that I can’t really get into detail here.

Highlights of the show:

* The Cuervo booth hiring hot chicks to give out free (but small) cups of margaritas
* Orange Bang! hiring hot chicks to wear T-shirts that say, “Wanna Bang?”
* Free sample city. I pretty much had a sample of food from every major food conglomerate in the United States.
* Just getting out to be around people I don’t know, to talk to new people. Puts a new perspective on things - the world is not limited to my PC at home and my Herman Miller desk at work.

Other than that, I spent the weekend reading Pattern Recognition, which is pretty decent so far. Wasn’t too thrilled with the other William Gibson books I’ve read - found them to be incoherent at times, and these days I am not in the mood to think really hard about what authors are writing - I just want to be entertained. This book is no exception.

But this book is a pretty good description of the brand world that all of the design fools I meet are living. I gave up on that stuff a little while ago - I’m just a fat guy who knows how to work some Photoshop. It doesn’t make much sense to buy the latest “in” stuff only to have to discard it six months later for some other “in” stuff that serves the same function (see those Bobblbee hardshell backpacks for an example of what I mean, those were all the Euro-rage at Flash Forward 2001).

But I get drawn into it every once in awhile, secretly. You learn my deepest, darkest secrets here at allyou.net. Whee!

Oh, also I started playing Summer Heat Beach Volleyball. Pretty cool, but doesn’t capture me the way Vball did, or even that import Japanese arcade game that they have at UCLA and I think they have at the arcade at LACC. I just don’t get the sense that I’m virtually smashing the ball in someone’s face and accomplishing a huge victory. I used to have both of the above games on MAME ROM, but I wiped my hard drive last year and forgot to back them up. Nice work!

Now that I look at what I wrote, this weekend was filled with pretty cool shit that had some flaws in it. I’ll take it - it could be far worse.

I want to go back to Vegas but can’t see how I can possibly fit it in.

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Tradeshow time. I get to go hang out at the Western Foodservice & Hospitality Expo today at the L.A. Convention Center, while my co-workers sling advertising. I managed to convince our company that sells advertising as its business model, that it might be a good idea to actually advertise to advertisers. So, for the first time in the six-year life of the company, here we are. (Note: I am a designer, not a salesperson. Why didn’t anyone in sales try to do this before?) I might end up having to be there all weekend.

I’ve been going down to the Convention Center for the last two days to set up some small things in our booth. Have you ever seen a tradeshow being set up? Total chaos. Big giant crates everywhere, fools driving around forklifts. Air of excitement. Looks like a lot of fun.

Our booth is pretty cool - apparently we haven’t used it since 1998 since we were displaying it at some dot-com “look at our cool site, we’re changing the Information Superhighway” tradeshow, back when we had money. There’s a booth next door with the standard pipe-and-drape (new technical term I learned for the fools who can’t afford to build their own booths), and a but-ass ugly red and green floral-pattern carpet. Ouch.

We’re across from a company who sells safety CO2 monitors for beverage systems. On their booth it says, “People have died - You should monitor your CO2.” Nice work!

I’m mentally preparing myself for lots of smiling and greeting. More coffee is needed.

Oh, by the way, major changes are at work at allyou.net. Stay tuned.

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