Nov
17
2008
Don’t worry, not me… but 1/3 of my studio currently is.
Suck…
It’s really scary when this come down. I’ve been in a studio when the announcement is made that they have no more money and that everyone should go home. Yeah, that was a bad day. Is was pretty close but not quite. The studio is hoping and pushing to have everyone back in January, but if I’ve learned anything from my time working is that you can never put your faith 100% in you employer. If you do… well, lets just say that you shouldn’t. So today, after the meeting this morning I started to hit up my friends and contacts in the industry and see how things are everywhere else and if anyone is, or will be, hiring. I do know some people that have told me that I’ll have a job in their studio if I want one, so that’s good to hear.
The other huge problem is having to move to another city. When you’re a single person, picking up an moving sucks but it’s easier to do. But when you’re a family of 4 and a dog… you really have to sit and make hard decisions as to what’s going to happen next.
The whole thing sucks.
Stupid crappy economy…
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Nov
16
2008
Feeling better today. Thanks to everyone that sent well wishes ^_^
So today for lunch I made some of my famous (in my house) orange pancakes. They’re soooo good. Wife and kids love them. It made me think of all the other things that I make well. I make the best damn sandwiches out there and I also make damn good raisin, cinnamon bread and orange, craisin bread. At Christmas time I make orange and chocolate cookies too. Yes… I do love working with oranges.
I don’t cook much but sometimes I wonder if I could have gone culinary school. Not that I really know anything about cooking but sometimes it’s nice to think about you life in a different direction. Maybe in a another life time…
Do you have any culinary treats that you and only you make/cook?
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Nov
15
2008
It was bound to happen… now I’m sick. I’m getting hot and cold from one moment to the next and generally just feel like a turd sandwich. No puke though, just feeling run down. Which is crazy because I’ve been home with the sick kid for one day… my wife has been home with her all week and is doing fine.
Suck…
I’m going to finish watching Survivor and then go to bed…
Being sick sucks.
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Nov
14
2008
My daughter is sick. A bit of a stomach bug and a fever too. Poor kid. She’s been throwing up a number of times during the day since Wednesday. Although, I have to say… she’s a puker. Any little cold or slight fever she gets, she guaranteed to throw up at least once. She’s been like this way since she was really little. My son on the other hand isn’t like this at all for some reason. I hope it’s something she grows out of as she gets older. That would be a suck thing to bring with you as you grow up. Also when ever she gets a fever, it usually a high grade fever. It’s not uncommon for her to be 104/105 F. It used to be scary but now we know it’s normal for her, although we still have to watch and be careful it doesn’t get too high.
It got me thinking about how often I get sick. Well, I do get sick now more then I ever did thanks to my kids. But I used to hardly ever get sick. Maybe once a year…. maybe. I think it’s been about ten years since I’ve even thrown up. Seriously.
I actually knew a guy that had a phobia of throwing up. Now that’s something I’ve never heard of before. I also knew someone that used to be given medicine in a drop of caramel as a kid. Now he can’t have caramel with out the urge to toss his cookies.
How about you? Are you prone to getting sick often? Are you a puker?
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Nov
14
2008
My daughter is sick. A bit of a stomach bug and a fever too. Poor kid. She’s been throwing up a number of times during the day since Wednesday. Although, I have to say… she’s a puker. Any little cold or slight fever she gets, she guaranteed to throw up at least once. She’s been like this way since she was really little. My son on the other hand isn’t like this at all for some reason. I hope it’s something she grows out of as she gets older. That would be a suck thing to bring with you as you grow up. Also when ever she gets a fever, it usually a high grade fever. It’s not uncommon for her to be 104/105 F. It used to be scary but now we know it’s normal for her, although we still have to watch and be careful it doesn’t get too high.
It got me thinking about how often I get sick. Well, I do get sick now more then I ever did thanks to my kids. But I used to hardly ever get sick. Maybe once a year…. maybe. I think it’s been about ten years since I’ve even thrown up. Seriously.
I actually knew a guy that had a phobia of throwing up. Now that’s something I’ve never heard of before. I also knew someone that used to be given medicine in a drop of caramel as a kid. Now he can’t have caramel with out the urge to toss his cookies.
How about you? Are you prone to getting sick often? Are you a puker?
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Nov
13
2008
Recently scientists in Japan have successfully cloned a mouse from a lab mouse carcass that was frozen in permafrost (-40 C) for 16 years. The new technique was demonstrated to show that cloning is now possible on severely damaged cells due to deep freezes from dead animal specimens. Several mice where cloned in this fashion and they even mated and had healthy babies.
So what animal is at the top of the list for scientists to clone using this new method? Yup, the great dead woolly mammoth. Woolly mammoths have already been found in well preserved in the ice and experts believe that there are as many as 10,000 more trapped in the frozen wastes. Why, there is even plans to make a “Pleistocene Park†in northern Siberia. It would be twice the size of Japan and be the new home of woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, Siberian tigers, steppe lions, giant deer, ancient foxes, and ancestors of the Siberian horse.
Crazy eh?
So what’s your take on all this? We have the opportunity to bring back long lost animals and really see and study what they where like. To be able to touch a real woolly mammoth would be awesome. But is it something we should be fooling with? Is it our place to do such a thing? I’m not sure where I stand. On one side I think it’s amazing and on the other I think it’s down right scary. I don’t think it’s right but I’d love to see a real woolly mammoth… I just don’t know…
Discuss!
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