06.05.03 4:00pm
I'll update when I'm good and ready.

Remember the Gary Shandling Show? Maybe you don't. What I remember best about that show was the theme song. This site needs something like that. Anyway, onto the update...

I don't have a single topic for this update, mainly because I haven't written a full update in almost 2 months (THANKS JOHN, ANDY, AND AARON FOR NOT LETTING ME FORGET). Instead, I have a slew of little news items.

So while I watch Fox's latest salute to humanity, "Stupid Behavior Caught on Tape," you can enjoy these tasty morsels of infotainment. Like that fish over there appears to be.

While this page has grown stale, the forum has actually been a hotbed of activity and postings and whatnot. For instance, my Monday of the Week thread, where I posted every couple of hours, attempting to rationalize what I do at work. Unfortunately, the day I chose was rather uneventful, and just made me look lazy.

Speaking of work, I managed to take some pictures of my "work environment," which is just a fancy way to say "moneyhole." Below are pictures of my desk, the studio, the control room, and the place where I spend so much of my time, the greenroom.

Finally, my work recently paid to send me to a Photoshop training class last week. I'm not going to just come out and say that it was a waste of money, but I didn't really learn anything that I didn't already know until the last 40 minutes of the second and final day of the class.

While I was there, I charted my progress in yet another forum thread, which clearly shows that I didn't bring my A game, which I'm not even sure if I have. Anyway, click here to enjoy it.

Since my last update, I also bought a new car.

I had just put $500 into repairing my truck, only to discover it needed another $800 or so, for a problem that mysteriously appeared when I picked it up from the mechanic.

So I bought myself a VW Jetta 1.8t, and so far, I'm pretty happy with it. It is a turbo, however, so you can look forward to a future update where I explain why it is in two pieces. Click on its picture to the right for more exciting pictures.

I believe it's been said that once you move in with your significant other, you pick up the habits of that person, and slowly turn into them (Sorry to break it to you, Kathleen).

For example, since I moved in with Sonja last August, I have become a Mac user, and am now a Volkswagen owner, both things that I have picked up from her. Over Memorial Day weekend, Sonja took it one step further, and got a new car, too, and you know what they say, you can never have too many black Volkswagens.

She finally got rid of her '95 Jetta when it decided it was going to need a new transmission while in Minneapolis, which is a huge relief to me. Now I don't have to worry about her getting stranded in the middle of an exit ramp during rush hour again, as was the case a month ago when her timing belt broke.

On her way back to KC, we met in Des Moines, where I had gone to pick up our bicycles, which I had been missing since moving to Kansas. Now we need to think of a new excuse not to ride them, other than "they're in another state."

06.06.03 8:17pm
It's two, two, TWO updates in one!

Do you really want to know what I've been working on in the time that has passed since I last updated? Check this out.

As most of you probably know, this is not the only website I work on. In addition to this site, I also run this one, I am the sports producer on this one, and I am the forum moderator on this one. For a very short time, I also ran this site, until it accidentally turned into one huge copyright violation. Whoops.

What you probably don't know is that I've made numerous attempts at creating a popular website, only to fail miserably each time. I'm going to break the silence now and share some of the better ones with you now here today on this site here now.

1996:
Remember when online auctions were brand new and they were all the rage? Auction sites were everywhere, and people were buying everything just for the novelty of it. Unfortunately, I, like a lot of others, ended up with a lot of useless crap.

I tried to capitalize on the internet auction phenomenon, and created a place where you could sell all that junk you bought at other sites, but it turned out that some people really are as dumb as their feedback suggests, and wanted to keep what they bought. I ended up selling the whole site on ebay for $3.20. No, my reserve was not met.

2000:
Let's just get this one out of the way. There's a lot of money to be made in porn, but how do you make your site stand out?

Apparently not this way.