Clapboard - Full Frontal Nerdity

I've been working, believe it or not.

With my impending departure for South America with Bon Jovi looming, I'm looking at a foreshortened timeline and thinking about how I can get work completed for MWS before I go.  It's a short-ish timeline, given the back-and-forth that has to happen, but still, it's doable.  Then, through Priscilla, I booked a gig working on the practically-abandoned non-profit website CAN-DO.org.

The founders live across the yard at the moment, and Eric just left for Haiti, so it's a time crunch to get everything updated and working.  The site isn't a CMS, but instead was written in Dreamweaver (I can only assume) and the pages that I have are all a disaster.  Totally unnecessary nested tables within more and more tables, no real patterns (each box is slightly different from the rest, or boxes within sections have different problems), and almost no CSS.  Each page has some random CSS generated by Dreamweaver at the top, and the stylesheet is an amalgam of overlapping styles and mess.

Long story short, I now have more work than I can handle.  Or almost more work than I can handle.  I'm writing this blog post, for example, while I await replies to two emails and rest my eyes from staring at the code, wondering why the site works so radically differently on IE than on Firefox (and, indeed, everything else).  At least I'm building karma on this one, right?  My rate is slashed and I'll be able to claim some tax advantage at the end of the year, supposedly.

Most appetizing post title ever?

Yes!  Fortunately for you, there aren't going to be any pictures of my snot, despite the fact that there's so much of it that it's hard to keep out of pictures.  And food.  And everything else, really.  Yes!

So, here to amuse you is the tale of two phones replaced and the phones that replace them.  Here to repulse you is more vague description of gross sinus problems.  Here to entice you is mention of the writing project that Casey and I are slowly putting together, as well as the script I'm working on slowly-but-surely.

Past the break, you'll find all this and more - click through if you dare.

The air conditioner is fixed.  In case you were wondering.  Which I'm sure you were.

Over the last few days when I haven't been working, Casey and I have been discussing a writing project/blog thing where we write about our experiences eating out and doing shit in LA.  We'll see how it goes.  I'm hoping for good stuff.

Also, we went camping in Topanga on Sunday night, which was awesome, but way too short.  I got bitten in the elbow by some crazy-poisonous thing that's been making my elbow-life a living hell for the last few days - pain pain pain and swelling like crazy keeping me from moving my left arm more than about 50% of its range of motion.  Ghetto.

Saw Piranha 3D 2 days ago - it was awesome.  Everything a movie called Piranha 3D should be.  I'd say it was better, for its genre, than The Expendables was for its genre (although I may have liked the Expendables more, if only because of the actors in it).  Both were pretty good.  I'd like to see Scott Pilgrim today or tomorrow, and then whatever came out this weekend.  I've been a little better about seeing movies recently, and I'm trying to keep that up till I leave the country again.

Which is happening mid-September, but I don't know exactly when.

That is all for now.