Stop dressing like a bum!

Dream, 12/3:
Dennis Basso, designer of great coats for the fashion world (and of fake fur coats for QVC, which is how I know him) shows up at my apartment.
He then berates me: You need to stop dressing like a bum! You need to stop wearing the same 3 pair of pants to work* and [...]

Ads I wish I designed: Merry Maids

Part of my job at the Courier-Post involves designing online advertising. I’m not sure how exactly that came about other than when I started there, I was one of two people with Photoshop.
Back then, the most common (and I believe only) ad size on our site was this:

Now as monitors get larger, web sites get [...]

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Losing at eBay & winning anyway?

Occasionally I’ll troll eBay for cheap beads. It’s a way to get a shopping fix while not leaving my comfy chair. Last night I bid on 2 items from the same vendor. The first string of beads I won for 99 cents. On the second string I bid $1.49 and lost to someone bidding $1.74.
When [...]

They’re engaged!

I have a “Cast of Characters” page that I wrote a few years back and it’s horrifically out of date. On it, I give you guys a rundown of who the heck I’m talking about on this site, since I’m huge on nicknames & all.
Here’s the entry for my brother:

My point was proven, by the [...]

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