Author: cosmo

As I prepare to expand the ol’ business and hire a full-time employee (he starts Monday, woo hoo!) I have to figure out how to arrange my office. Rather than renting space downtown like I did a year or so ago, I decided to just work in the basement for a while and save some expense.

Of course, my office is really only big enough for one, so it’s going to be a trick to get two desks in there. Luckily, Laralee has experience arranging things like this– she creates little graph-paper scale models and slides them around until they fit. Using this advanced scientific approach, she figured out a way to make it work. I guess I’ll find out Saturday when I reassemble the desks…

“The best way to have a good idea… is to have lots of ideas.”

— Linus Pauling

The other night I was goofing around with a new address book system, and I noticed a place where you can upload a picture for a contact person. Just for kicks I dug up a couple of mug shots and added them to some random contacts. Nothing really exciting seemed to happen so I forgot about it.

But then I was using my e-mail and noticed those pictures suddenly started appearing in mail from those people. Hilarious. Now I get a smiling face from the people in my address book…

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

— Mohandas Gandhi

I suppose it was only a matter of time before Bill Gates received his knighthood from the Queen of England. Too bad he can’t use the title “sir” (he’s not a British citizen).

I went skiing over the weekend with Sarah and Brad. What a hoot.

It was cold, so on the lift we pretty much covered all exposed skin. It makes us look a little scary and definitely weird…

This is for my friend Craig, who’s really getting the treatment from his company.

You know you’re over-worked when you’re so busy doing projects for clients that you literally don’t have time to send them the bills…

Candy hearts always have interesting messages: “LUV U” and “KISS ME” and whatever.

But “LET’S READ”? Hmm.

From an Associated Press article today:

“Speaking with one voice, President Bush’s top intelligence and military officials said Wednesday that terrorists are regrouping for possible new strikes against the United States. They said the best defense was for Congress to approve the president’s military and anti-terror budget.”

Something smells foul here. This is the same tired tactic used by Bush in his first four years in office: scare everyone into spending money and accepting invasions of privacy unheard of only a few years earlier. Now they’re at it again, giving vague warnings that someone, somewhere, might do something bad sometime. “Oh, and to stop them we’ll need money. Lots and lots of money.”