Screwed up royally

I am such a dimwit.

I really thought that one had to create different blogs using different sign-ons or different passwords.

Not reading the carefully written text of the dashboard on this website that allows one to create as many blogs under the same sign-on as you like.

DER! (or is it DOY!?)

Anyway, I created my political blog (P-blog?), and then promptly lost it. I used a misspelled version of my actual email address, and cannot figure out how I misspelled it. It exists, there is one posting, and unless the nice folks here at Blogger choose to, I will never be able to access it again.

I may just start a slightly different version of it under this login, and call it something slightly different. The other one was Ugly Bald Liberal. Maybe the new one will be Old Bald Liberal.

Anyway, in other news, we get these nifty promotional announcements via corporate e-mail, and I don't know why I should care, but it kinda bugs me: "Here's a bunch of people who are doing better than you are. Work harder!" or something.

Slowly

I have been told to start my own blog by the polite lefties here at work. I suppose I could tell them I already have my own blog, I just don't blog about politics.

Well... not much anyway.

It might upset them to discover that what I blog about is the job I don't like. And that they do.

Anyway, Rambunctious Girl and I are going to look at a BMW tonight. Apparently it's important that we raise our insurance costs. It IS cute, black-on-black, 2-door, hatchback. Then again, I guess I'll have to sell my truck. But then I can drive Cori's Honda. (but what if I need to haul something?)

Rent a truck from Home Despot, I guess...

Mouseketeers

I wear my Mickey Mouse ears with pride.

(I know - attention whore)

Looking to get that degree thing. I am actually seeking input from anyone with knowledge concerning on-line degrees, and whether it's worth pursuing. There was one institution I looked at that was actually offering a a Journalism degree, but I worked out that it would cost $51,000 for me to complete all the course credit requirements. At the end of which, I would have a Bachelor's degree (a B.S., I believe - a B.S. in Journalism?).

Anyone know anything about these sorta things? I haven't seen much research on-line, mostly it's all just propaganda, and people seeking advertising dollars for linking you to the on-line colleges' websites.

This isn't happening

And neither am I. So far, I have had two system crashes (on a fuckin' MAC, fer cornsakes).

I have discovered the pleasures of Shake, but unfortunately not the skills. Yet.

Shake, for the less initiated, is a fairly powerful compositing program that folks like Daubentonia use (or used - I realize that ILM has made significant changes to this software for their own purposes). I am simply trying to cause a pair of contact lenses to follow a person't moving face around a screen, and then disappear as that person closes their eyes. Not the easiest thing, admittedly, but it should be possible.

BAD, BAD COMPUTER. NO BISCUIT.

Sitting here at work

doing absolutely nothing worthwhile.

Not that this is different from other days. Situationist ethics aren't working for me here - I should be out graffitiing the world.

I am currently editing a film, entitled Sans Vie (Without Life, for those undereddicated folks who don't SPEAK Spanish).

Strangely enough, a film made in Seattle with a mostly English-speaking cast who were forced to learn their lines in French for this odd concept. Set in the future, a woman who can literally spend her life in her PJs, does, and this is seen as a bad thing, except that she really doesn't have much in the way of human contact (other than cyberstuff). I recognize this girl, I even sympathise. I was much like this, and had I been able to do my job from home, I probably wouldn't have left my apartment for much of the year (except for the occasional weird-ass movie). So in some ways, I identify with this girl.

The movie itself is providing me with several challenges, such as lousy sound (not the fault of the actors entirely, the location proved to have two railroads [one on either side], a major auto corridor downstairs, and airplanes flying overhead), minor continuity issues, and a special effect that I am currently struggling with. (her eyes have to go a kind of yellowish, milky white, and they shot both shots with a hand-held camera - growl)

But it's something I've wanted to do for quite some time, and will, perhaps, get me work other than my job. Maybe even enough to not do this job anymore.

AAAAAAAAAAAAACK! At the end of February (though this may change), I am off to Toronto for 9 days. Actually Brampton, but you folks know what I mean. Not that I dislike the Canadians, but the beer sucks. And Montreal was a bit on the snooty side (everyone's smarter than me, if only because most of them are bi-lingual).

I have to debate with myself whether I should get the new computer when they announce the new models at MacWorld next week. I will then need to turn over the laptop to the wife (it's meant for her) and I will have nothing upon which I can edit or entertain myself in the coming trips. Perhaps I can also buy myself a smallish laptop, like a MacBook. The black one is sure pretty...