30 09 2003
Slow time for me right now. Not many movies for a while (although I saw Underworld with Simone, inspiring me to have a Halloween party). Murdoch is surpisingly almost complete. That little project I had to fix the I/O connections on a Palm IIIxe using a little bit of solder has basically failed. The commute down Bayview is slower than ever.
Since Labour Day, the drive has been impossibly long. In addition, there are three multi-farm-field subdivisions opening just north of me. By this time next year, I will have no choice but to find another way to work. The 15 minute drive will become an hour long commute.
Everyone around me at work is busy, busy, busy. My function is usually the “Other Stuff Guy”. Although I’m blessed (?) with a wide variety of skills, one of them is not PowerPoint. So when the office goes in to crunch-mode leading up to an event, I do all the “Other Stuff” like video prep and compression, getting materials and content, and being generally annoying in order to keep my co-workers alert. The only difficult part is how I need to be a zero-to-sixty-in-three-point-five-seconds kind of worker. When I AM needed, then I’m needed yesterday.
Simone and her friend, Alyssa, will be working on a column for a local York Region newspaper called “One Eighty” (or something like that). They will be featuring local bands in the article, and more importantly, getting press passes so they can get into shows. Smart girls!
Last night I set up the domain NextDoorNoise.ca for them on my server. Simone and Alyssa are going down to The Edge Wednesday night in order to promote it, and let bands know how to contact them. They will be on Punkorama with George Stroumboulopoulos (good story on how nice the guy is). She’s not getting her hopes up that she’ll get on the air, but Simone is making sure that her sister tapes it from the radio anyway. In any case, I’ll be down there with Simone’s camera snapping off photos of the event.
No doubt, ‘Georgie’ (as we call him) gets lots of “Woolly Mammoth from Sesame Street” comments, so I’ll probably just stick to the “Handsome ABCnews Anchor” comments.
