stiney51

Well go back a few months and you'll see a now useless blog post referencing my perfect job.

I was laid off yesterday with no notice, not severance and not even enough respect from the owner to have the stones to tell me himself. Our company had been fighting for some capital to make up for some really poorly timed large scale expenses (2 new retail store buildings and a new warehouse facility to name a few). The owner (who I reported directly to) kept painting a rosy picture of...

Now it's not quite as bad as it seems, but I find myself jumping from one online addiction to another. For a while it was Biorust, but sadly I've drifted into a bit of obscurity on here. I started spending way too much time on Jellyfish.com smack-shopping. If you haven't been there, don't go. It's like crack. Lately it's been obsession with my fantasy baseball sim league. Hours and hours of research on which 9 players to select in the draft. Now that the draft is over, it's "how can I improve...

Well after years of being too lazy and not truly needing to learn it, I'm finally venturing into the world of learning Flash. My boss envisions a very clean, homepage to our new website, and he wants to see movement, rotation and other things that would be difficult to do without using Flash.

So why not? I can learn how to do it. I am skilled enough with computers and technically minded enough to learn enough action script to be dangerous.

The nicest thing about it...

I've been working on a new business card design for our company for a while off and on (low priority) and finally finished it. Had the quote in hand, samples etc, approval of the design etc. and bam! "can we do a different card for these employees?"

Sure.

Enter the new problem. Here I have a design done for the parent company (The Mercantile Group) and now I have to come up with a new card for the sub company (Pure Hockey) that has its own look and style...

I tend to be a very happy guy, so part of me hates posting things like this, but then again it's healthy to talk about stuff that makes you uncomfortable...

3 days ago my wife called me from work (she works in a hospital). An old co-worker of hers had come in to the ER with an infection and ended up not making it (apparently she didn't have a spleen to help fight the infection). She was 30 years old (same age as my wife) had a 3 year old and a 4 month old (our kids are 20 months...