We're probably going to have to put Alpo (the youngest of the family) down today, due to kidney failure.  Here's the last set of pictures of all five of the cats.


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I spent way too many hours trying to figure this out for a client, so I thought, once I finally did, I'd outline the steps here. One would think that it would/should be a seemingly trivial task... except that it wasn't. (And I'm embarrassed to admit that I had actually done this once before, for a different client, but something had changed, and ( Read more... )

A friend of mine was telling me about the tons of code he has to write to deal with a Company table which has dozens of parameter columns. I suggested that he use a Parameter table, and then replace all of the parameter columns with a many-to-many table to set the Parameter values for each Company. A lot of the parameters are essentially ( Read more... )

I'm flying out on Wednesday to spend a week in New Mexico with my daughter and her husband.

Wunderground offers ten-day forecasts, which I take with a grain of salt, since it's very hard to accurately predict weather even a few days out. Still, they've been consistently showing a snowstorm here that morning, ever since the 17th appeared on the ( Read more... )

Just about a month ago, a client hired me for a rush job, including some video work, and then changed their mind a few days later. Thankfully, they then agreed to reimburse me for time and materials, which included a "green screen" cloth for some chroma key scenes that we had planned ( Read more... )

We had a fun project this past week that went very well; the Utrecht-based client (south of Amsterdam) was thrilled. Cat Lady did the casting and I served as director for a three-minute short promoting Customer Drive, a customer service business game. The original video was presented entirely in Dutch; our task was to dub everything into English ( Read more... )

Two unrelated clients both cancelled large-ish jobs mid-stream in the last week; very frustrating. Not sure I'll get paid for work performed already. Yeah, it's all part of the game, but two of these back-to-back sort-of smarts, to the tune of about $600 total ( Read more... )

Yesterday was five years since Cat Lady quit smoking, (after two packs a day for half a century). We went out to celebrate.

Here's a video from a new voiceover client; hopefully my first of several he has planned:

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Update: corrected video location... again.And finally, an excerpt from some directions I gave my Venezuelan graphic artist, who also ( Read more... )

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Working backwards....

We got home this evening in five hours, with some mild traffic in spots. Nothing outrageous. Due to a bit of a miscommunication, our cat-sitter friends arrived shortly after we did, but it was all good; we had a very nice visit with them.

Today was going to be Historic Smithville, but we changed gears this morning, and ( Read more... )