I N T H E N I G H T K I T C H E N 5.2.2001
Ti3 Want to see what I've been working on since last December? It just went live! I wish I had some screenshots of what the site looked like before. It's quite a difference. This project included site redesign, new information architecture and T. reworked the content completely. There's a second phase of this which is a subsite for their FasTime product which should be debuting shortly. It has the same layout with a slightly different feel and a logo that I did for them. I'm so excited that this has finally launched! 4.30.2001
You Can't Always Get What You Want The BBQ was a lot of fun. Of course, this being spring in Oregon, it was beautiful all week and then poured down during our BBQ. It's a good thing we have something of a back porch. More people showed than I thought would though we tried to keep it small. T. and I cleaned the house top to bottom but everyone stayed in the kitchen -- that totally cracked me up. We have benches on two sides of our dining table and we had put one in the living room for seating and had to bring it back in the kitchen because no one would leave it! It was all good, though. I hope everyone had a good time. We had a few disparate elements there but everyone was some part of the same thread which was cool. I laughed a lot which I really needed. It's still raining now. Rained all weekend. Been blustery, too. It's a good thing, though. We need to stay away from drought. Bad for power and bad for fish. I hope it's not this way on Saturday as I'd like to go for a hike. I was kind of wanting to do a camping trip this weekend but I got conned into working on Sunday. My boss told me I could do every other weekend off but then she scheduled me for this Wednesday which I just cannot do and so then she gave me the choice between Wednesday and Sunday. Grrr. I can't say I'm liking her too much. Everyone at work talks about how laid-back it all is, which is true except for management it seems. I don't know what it is about me but it seems like I always start out on management's bad side. I feel like I'm being friendly and helpful but in jobs like this I have felt time and time again that I somehow got on the "bad" list. What is it about service jobs and management? I think it may be that people in those positions are naturally paranoid that their low-paid employees are always trying to put one over on them. I tend to rankle under that kind of attitude. I'm seriously thinking about what I should be doing right now. Nothing like a shitty service job to get the wheels turning. At least I'm making some money while I get myself straightened out. 
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