Dang. I really think I’ve been working straight since 8:00 this morning.
No more 15 hours days. Night all!
Random iPhone feature I didn’t know about before
Having been on the Edge network for so long with my original iPhone, I didn't know that AT&T's 3G connection actually allowed you to use the data connection while simultaneously talking on the phone. Sweet. 3G might drain my battery life like nobody's business, but that's a handy little feature.
Making last minute touches on our logo concepts presentation!
We even have our presentation on foam core. I’d show you that, but then you’d see the top secret logo concepts we’re working on. 🙂
Site launch for First Lutheran Church on Wright Park! Feels good. But still have two more sites to launch by Christmas …
The church Mary and I got married in last December finally has a new site. We’ve been plugging away on the new First Lutheran site and I’m happy to have it live. It’s a clean, simple design with a focus on big pictures to show off the church and their ministry. (When we needed a shot for the wedding page, you can guess where we got one.) No time to celebrate, though! I’ve got a client presentation at 8:30 am tomorrow, followed by the City Club lunch tomorrow with Sal Mungia, President of the Washington State Bar Association. And by Wednesday of Read more…
Hanberg Family Football Game
We rekindled an old tradition that died out 10 or 12 years ago. Our early Christmas celebration with the Hanberg side of the family used to include a 3-on-3 or 4-on-4 touch football game. I use "football" loosely, here. Plays include hidden ball tricks, singing Jingle Bells to distract the opposition, and hiking the ball when the QB says blueberries. Since we've been celebrating this Christmas in Eastern Washington for the last few years, we've generally had too much snow to manage the game. But there's just a light dusting here, so we took advantage and re-started it. If we Read more…
Busy Friday!
My apologies for a lack of posting! I had a really good Friday. I spent all day with the Tacoma Arts Commission reviewing grant applications. Foundation/Commission philanthropy is a fascinating process, one I have really enjoyed with the Community Foundation and so I was glad to have the opportunity to do it again with TAC (I was on a subcommittee in 2005 doing the same thing). After that Mary and I hit up the Suite133 holiday party, which has been my favorite holiday party of the year three years running now. I still have a punchcard there–seeing it so decked Read more…
“You Missed It”
In 25th Hour Edward Norton gives what is perhaps the best performance of his career in what is easily one of the best movie’s of Spike Lee’s filmography. Norton plays a convicted drug dealer headed to prison for seven years. Before he goes Monty Brogan has twenty-four hours to say goodbye, and he spends most of them coming to grips with his father and friends while venting his anger and frustration at the path he’s taken. via bspcn.com This was an interesting list of films that are the “most unfairly overlooked of the last decade.” First, get ready for a lot of decade-long lists. Read more…
How much is Google paying for souls these days?
I'm happy to see Google Chrome on my Mac. When in the City Club office on a PC I've moved over to it. But I'm very happy with it on my laptop. It's quick, it's easy, and it's stable. Downsides: it's still in beta right now. So I can't manage my bookmarks. But I'm probably going to stick with it for regular browsing, with Firefox for development. The more stuff I use Google for, the happier I am I switched my blog to Posterous, just to have one service I'm using that isn't run by them.
Red and Silver this year!
This year’s Christmas tree has a pretty simple theme of red and silver. This is a result of timing mostly–I just didn’t have enough time to make the ornaments I wanted to. Still, a simple theme can be very nice. And the main thing is just having a lot of lights to curl up with. WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Hmm. After re-reading my post it looks like I’m curling up with the tree. That’s not right at all. What I meant to say was that I want to have lots of lights for when I curl up with a book. And this Read more…
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