Really? I mean REALLY! I’m so absolutely disqusted and at the same time intrigued…

Check it out, and don’t say I didn’t warn you: Goldpoop

Well, it’s a busy weekend.  Friday night I’m singing with the Mike Snyder Band.  This is a benefit of some sort (i don’t really know all of the details) it’s a non-drinking friday night gig, so I don’t expect too many people to be staying too late…  The Mike Snyder Band is a cover band that I’ve been singing with off and on since march.  Mostly just something to do for fun.  Classic rock type stuff, they’re all great guys and we definitely have a good time so I’m psyched for it.

Saturday and Sunday I’m singing with the Choral Arts Society of the Upper Perkiomen Valley (that’s CASUPV to you tough guy!)  We’re singing Saturday night at 8 at St. Marks in Pennsburg PA, Sunday at 3 at the Palm Shwenkfelder church in (amazingly enough) Palm, PA.  It’s a great group.  My father is conducting again this year, so I figured I’d join up and sing.  It’s definitely tough going back to singing this style after so many years not doing it, but it’s a great challenge and I’m having a blast doing it.  If you’re interested in going, tickets are available at the door (and Stacie and Micheala will be taking tickets so you can say hi to them as well!)  http://www.casupv.org is the site for more info.

That’s all for now, I’m off to see Stacie’s final presentation for her last class.  She’s finally going to graduate! yippee and such.  

I’m finishing up at Adobe Max 2007 in Chicago and it’s really gotten me excited about design again. So of course I ran back to my hotel room (ok, took the bus) and decided to finally do something with the open dispatch. Basically that included getting pluggedout blog installing it and making up a pretty crappy header. I’ll do more with this when I’ve got time, but I really wanted to just jot down some of the things that I took away from the sessions that I went to. This morning was one of the best sessions all week. It was with Big Spaceship (http://bigspaceship.com/). What a MFer of a design company. They do some simply incredible things (check out http://www.hungrysuitcase.com as an example). This is the type of stuff that reminds me why i love the web. It’s so easy to get wrapped up in the every day stuff and lose site of the fact that you can really love working for a living. A couple of things that I learned and/or had re-affirmed at a number of the sessions that I went to:

• Design for design sake can be fun, but it’s not always that useful
• While the adage that the client is always right works, it’s also really important to help the client get to the point where they’re making informed decisions.
• Personally I need to keep learning, every day, as much as possible. The more I learn the more I remember why I do this and the better I am at my job.
• Have fun. Just friggin’ have fun. You can make your deadlines and still enjoy what you’re doing. It’s so easy to get dragged down into day to day, lose your courage or whatever other crappy metaphor I can come up with (wow am I sounding new agey…) I have to remember to just take it as it comes and more than likely it’ll all work out in the end.