Life is a river; it is always changing and moving with rhythm and time. It’s not always refreshing, but it certainly has plenty of rocks along the way.

Lately I’ve been looking back a bit, at the same time as forward. I’m enjoying the present one day at a time, but there are moments during which I am reminded of something from childhood. Today, someone I’m following on Twitter linked some older pictures from the original (and best) Star Wars. What a great piece of history, I thought to myself. I remember watching the original movies when I was really young. At the time, we didn’t have DVD players, and music came on casette tapes. We didn’t have Black Eyed Peas, and rock was still the major form of music style – there wasn’t really much in the way of “rap” that took the mainstream until much later.

I remember that my mom practically raised my brother and I on real originals. Things like The Neverending Story, The Labyrinth, and a mess of other Jim Henson movies – and alongside those, like a great sage in and of itself, the original Star Wars trilogy. What she didn’t realize at the time was that she had just made the recipe to create a daughter who grew to be an absolute technology junky and a geek to the core. I bear these titles with pride. Read more »

When I rise in the morning, it feels very good to realize that it’s a brand new day. New things can occur, and new opportunities can arise. Lately, it seems like my opportunities were shut down; however, I find today that more and more opportunities are being opened in light of the closed doors. This gives me hope.

It reminds me that no matter what happens, the sun will always rise and set. The world will continue to turn as it will, and while things may change slow, I feel like if I keep working hard, and using every opportunity that I receive instead of passing it up, that things will work out okay. I’ll admit that lately there have been times when I’ve wanted to simply shut down; the going is certainly pretty tough right now. However, I keep being reminded of how hard I have worked to get to where I am now, and everything that hinges on my steady work. Read more »

I really hate calling it quits on clients, especially clients that I’ve previously had a decent experience with. However, sometimes you still have to call it quits – whether they aren’t willing to pay you, or aren’t willing to pay you enough for the amount of time which you put into their site.

I’ve recently had to call it quits on a client I’d been working with for some time. In the past they had been a very good client and allowed me my space to work, but whenever said client changed for the worse, I knew it wasn’t fair to my other clients (or even to myself) to continue with the casework. Read more »

Sometimes, you find a client that just really strikes your fancy. Not even just a client, but frankly a person.

I’m glad to say that thus far in the past couple of months, this has happened to me a couple of times. With all of the litigation that’s occurred in my life, there’s nothing more refreshing to me to wake up in the morning and realize that hey… I’m working with this client, or hey I’m almost finished with this design.

It has been quite a storm lately. Sometimes dark and grey, but in times like this, I really feel the spark of hope as it peeks over the horizon. I’ve always believed that things happen for a reason, whether it means a significant meeting of another person, or even a significant email. The theme from Mirror’s Edge, Lisa Miskovsky’s Still Alive echoes through my mind (note that I’ve only listened to the song; I haven’t actually played the game) – it’s a sad, happy song that gives me hope in that it points out that no matter what happens, I’m still alive, and it reminds me that some of the work that I’m doing is for a good cause. Read more »

This weekend I will be going out of town again in order to visit a cousin of mine due to a personal issue – let’s just state that it is pressing.

I will be leaving early Friday morning, and returning later Monday afternoon. Once I return, normal business operations will commence. I just ask that you please bear with me for this weekend (I realize I was just recently out of town last weekend for personal business as well). Thus far things are going well, and I won’t be back in California until the second weekend of August as far as things are going.

Anyway – take care all.