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apologies in advance. This is a bit stream of consciousness. Ang and I ran over to the discount theater to see Where the Wild Things Are this afternoon. I know it's something we should have seen earlier this fall but often, for whatever reason, if I don't see something right away it ends up either not being watched in the theater or we catch up with it at the discount theater. Sometimes, if the

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Movies watched: 0Food consumed: couple pieces of leftover christmas chocolateCurrent weight: 263 Current state of mind: for the moment it's pretty clearSettling in to a new year has always been sort of cathartic. While I don't necessarily believe change will happen, it's nice to think that it COULD happen. 2009, while not the greatest year I've ever lived turned out to be pretty darn good. We

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anyway, that's what's on my mind. I know things will be fineanalytically, but there's still a question emotionally whether they'llcontinue to be. I guess that's the dilemma of a freelancer. It'severyone's dilemma, really, full time jobs aren't necessarily a 'surething' either, but your much closer to the razors edge when you'retrying to get your own shop off the ground.gonna go try and sleep

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figured i'd post instead. Just finished paying my taxes for the year.I know it's something that needs to be done, and i believe in the factthat you need to pay them honorably and on time, but i'm just reallystressed out tonight because paying them drained our tax fund and ouremergency fund and now i'm feeling like i'm in a precarious position.thankfully, i have money that should be coming in soon

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I did some digging yesterday and got up and running with a SkypeInnumber. Surprisingly the quality is pretty good and you can't beat theprice. I really wanted a way to keep my Colorado Springs number forthe people I do business with there and also have a number in Austin.I think I've got that part figured out.We got another batch of boxes unpacked yesterday night and Angela madeher marinara and

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.we continued to unpack. Life here in Austin has been pretty good sofar, but it's not hard for things to be good when you're not really upto anything except getting settled. I've continue to send out lettersof inquiry and I've gotten some positive response. Friday I have ameeting with a firm that I've been talking to off and on. I hope thatwill translate into something. Sunday I have a meeting

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Who knows why I end up having these long hiatuses. They're never particularly intentional. I end up getting busy and the next thing I know it's been two months since I've posted a blog. Truthfully though, the last time I stopped blogging I HAD gotten busy and ended up neglecting a promise. I kind of ended up hiding. Now, a year later (has it been a year? no, it's only been nine months) I'm back.

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OK, so I've been mildy curious about this movie since reading articles about over the summer. Then, I got more interested when photos of Robert Downey Jr in the new film came out,now we have a trailer... and if Night at the Museum (which I didn't TOTALLY hate) was worthwhile at all, it got Steve Coogan in another Ben Stiller movie, so there's your other bright shining moment for the day.Addendum:

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I'm just sitting down in my office after taping the last Tuesday morning men's course I have to do (no more 4:30am days for a while!).Finished reading a book yesterday called My First Movie: Take Two: Ten Celebrated Directors Talk About Their First Film. I had started reading the first volume a few months ago and have slowly been doling each chapter out one part at a time, but since Take Two was

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I'm working late tonight and day job stuff. We've got a website that's supposed to be 'ready to launch' tomorrow and I'm half heartedly working. It's hard for me to focus on day job stuff at night anyways, but my m ind keeps wandering back to 1) an e-conversation I've been involved in and 2) the discovery by my tongue earlier tonight of a hole in one of my molars. UGH. I HATE DENTAL WORK. A

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I love Michel Gondry. I really enjoyed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and I thought that The Science of Sleep was ALMOST a masterpiece... so I've been anxiously awaiting his new film, Be Kind Rewind. In the movie, Jack Black somehow becomes magnetized and erases all of the videos at the video store he works at. He and Mos Def proceed to recreate the movies one by one in a process Gondre

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Thanks to Lisa for mentioning that I redesigned her blog. If you're interested in your own redesign work you can reach me here. I'm working on getting a new portfolio site up, but if you'd like to see my portfolio, it's here. Now to get to work on, amid other things, contest winner Nicole's site. I'd really like to have things finished for her before it becomes 'Five' and Counting. Sorry for the

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man, it's been quite a while since I've had one of those nights where I work until some ungodly hour, go take a nap for a couple of hours while my computer processes and then get up and work some more... only to take another nap after the project is finished.Back in the late nineties or early oughts (heh. now that I'm thirty I can talk about the 'good ol' days') I tried to start a business with a

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... as I struggle back from not really having any real excuse for why I haven't blogged besides being busy. I turned thirty a little over a week ago. I thought it was going to be lousy back a couple of years ago when I first started rolling the concept around in my head but it's actually been alright. What's bugged me though is how easy it is to slip into old patterns. How easy it is to start

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I have a couple of design articles that I really want to write butdidn't get around to starting this afternoon. My current frustrationthough is just that some of my equipment at work has gone on the fritzjust before our evening service. Basically, I can't control mycameras. The frustrating thing is that:A) There's nothing I can do about it tonightB) It's going to jack with my day tomorrow and our

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Hey everyone, sorry for the delay. After a lot of deliberation, I'm pleased to announce that Nicole at As Many As We're Given is the winner. Nicole wrote a really great entry and my friend Lisa and I really fell in love with her blog. She's been contacted and we'll be getting started on her new design really quickly. Stay tuned to watch as we work on her design makeover.Thanks everyone!And

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I had a good conversation with the client about some of the printouts I made the other day. We're going to move ahead with a couple of the ideas I had. I'll walk through the design process once I make some progress. Heading off to grab some pizza with my lovely wife... more later.

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Hey everyone, entries are now closed. I'll announce the winner here in the next day or so. Lisa and I have been looking through the entries and there are some really great candidates. Remember, if you didn't win you can still get 25% off any custom work done. For information about hiring me, send an e-mail here.  Thanks to everyone who entered! - BrianHey all, just an update. I'll pick the

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Defamer called this "The Only Rambo Review You Need to See"... I don't know that I agree with that, but if I ever write a review like this? Shoot me. Don't even ask any questions... just blast me a new one. 

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A mini design class with Brian Originally uploaded by bthemnAll of these printouts are references for the blog redesign i'm working on at the moment. I'm curious to see just how far i can push blogger. The reference sites my client gave me were a little confusing... Mostly because a) it doesn't seem like there's a huge common thread, butb) they're not AMAZING designs and i want to create

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Gotta love those 4:30 am days. I actually got to bed before 10 last night and spent some time reading. Hopefully I'll be able to do the same thing tonight. Thank you, Angela, for getting me to get out of the house and work out this afternoon. I feel much better now that I'm back from my jog than I did on my way TO the jog. 50 minutes on the treadmill, 3.58 miles, 645.2 calories... not really all

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01-09-08_1410.jpg Originally uploaded by bthemnThis was on the street out in front of my office a couple of weeks ago. My friend Dave and I were mesmerized by the conversion and just stood gaping at it for a couple of minutes. Don't lie... you want one of your very own, don't you?

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01-19-08_1438.jpg Originally uploaded by bthemnShot this at the wal mart a couple of weeks ago. I mean, i'm all into marketing, even a bit of a wonk, but did the world need american idol ice cream? I mean, c'mon... "one split wonder"!?

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Augh! My eyes... Originally uploaded by bthemnThe return of random meeting photos... Mostly because i wanted to document my coworker's scarred memory of me prepping out for a very short moment. It's too hot in the office for a sweater today so i figured i could at least be humorous with it

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I was putzing around Designers Who Blog and noticed a link to a site by a designer named Brian Hock, aside from having a great first name, the Designers Who Blog link mentioned that he was a triathlete as well. My curiosity piqued, I noticed this video down at the bottom of his page. Man, I kind of get jazzed again thinking about doing another one... and what the narrator says about 'bragging for

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