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January, 2009

  1. Would you look at the time?

    January 10, 2009 by Collin

    So. Here it is Friday night, near midnight, and I still haven’t posted. I’m not even sure at this point if I’ll make it before the clock ticks over and it’s Saturday. I also have no idea what to write about. The layoffs are still weighing heavily on my mind, and it’s hard to think of much else.

    Still, I would hate to fail in my resolution after only three days.

    I’m trying to create a couple of new designs to submit to SplitReason between bouts of panic, however it’s not going very well. Still, I do have one idea that I think could be solid. I just need to take the time to get it done. Some days I feel amazed that I’ve ever managed to create anything worth a damn.

    Enough of that.

    Tomorrow noon-ish, Heather and I are heading over to Derek’s house to record some new podcasts. When they post I’ll link to them. Chris G., if by some miracle you happen to be reading this, I was supposed to tell you on Thursday when I got back from lunch that we would still be doing “the pod” and you need to show up for your interview. I was so busy trying to get ads and posters finished before I left that I forgot, and currently I still don’t work on Friday. So… show up.

    Could this post be any more boring? Should I talk about dinner? Bah. This is part of why I stopped blogging in the first place. If even I am not interested in what I’m writing, why the fuck would I think that anyone else would be. On the other hand, occasionally I come up with something funny/worthwhile, and if I didn’t push myself to write something every day I never would.

    So on I’ll go.

    Have a great weekend, and I’ll post again on Monday. Hopefully something better than this.

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  2. The economy sucks. Hard.

    January 8, 2009 by Collin

    Hey, look at that! I’m posting for the second day in a row! Now what to write about? Lemme think… (looking at title) Sure. Why the fuck not?

    I hadn’t planned on writing about the economy, that was a joke yesterday, and way back when I found out that my site was read by the owner of the company I work for I swore off writing about work. However, yesterday afternoon the two collided. Work and the economy.

    It’s something I’ve been expecting. We are in a recession, the automotive industry is in trouble, and the sole means of my company’s income (that I’m aware of) is the automotive industry. 1+1 nearly always =2. I’ve been worried ever since I took a 25% pay and hour cut back in August and nothing in the following four months happened to rosy up that picture.

    Being who I am, self-centered and paranoid as a person with really long interlocking sleeves and no shoelaces, I was certain that when the ax fell, it would fall on me. Dead-fucking-certain.

    I was wrong. Or at least off by a month or so. Time will tell.

    Instead a few of the people I liked best in this place suffered “career displacement,” one of whom I’ve been working with for at least 14 years and consider one of the best friends that I’ve ever had. It was a shitty thing to happen, and I’m pretty sure that certain animosities and friction led to his selection.

    I’m not going to name any names. The people who know us know who is involved, all the details, etc. I’m also still stunned. I feel like I haven’t slept. Everything has an unreal quality.

    It was hard coming in to work today. I imagine it’s only going to get harder. But I’m a pessimist like that. At least if the ship’s sinking, some of my friends got out while there were still some life boats left.

    I will say that I expect before this is over there will be another culling of the staff, and I have suspicions that they are considering eventually outsourcing the entire art department. That thought’s based on something said at the meeting after the slaughter and my aforementioned paranoia and pessimism.

    Enough of that. I don’t know what else to say. I’m not exactly thinking the clearest right now. I fervently hope that everyone axed yesterday is able to move on to far better, happier, more satisfying things than this place has offered. I’ll likely be joining you before long.

    I’ll try to post something more upbeat tomorrow.

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  3. New year, new start

    January 7, 2009 by Collin

    Hello to anybody reading this. If you’ve stuck around all this time, waiting quietly for me to blog again, congratulations! The wait has paid off! Don’t you wish you spent that time playing the lottery instead? Of course you do! Because right this moment you could be raking in the dough! Instead, here’s a post.

    yaaaayyyy…

    So. New year. All shiny and stuff. Not yet horrible. Closing in on the 10′s. My past attempts at blogging at my “website”, fizzleandpop.com amounted to “f”-all, so I’m back and ready to go, chock full of stories and fun for days without end! No freaking END I tells ya!

    …

    Speaking of stories and fun, the other night I asked my fiancé how she was doing. She replied with, “Peachy keen, jellybean! How about you?” Since she had already established the rhyming form of answer, I stupidly attempted to continue it. UNfortunately my brain is poorly and I came back with, “Pretty good…”

    It was at this point that I realized where my brain was going. Nowhere safe or smart, but like a train wreck it was far too late to stop it. All I could do was sit back and watch as my lips moved. At least it was gonna rhyme. “… peckerwood!”

    Her eyes got big and her mouth opened in shock. My eyes got big and I started laughing in an attempt to defuse the moment. I explained that I hadn’t meant anything by it. I just wanted to rhyme, and I was unprepared. And you know me; I’m stupid. But it was funny!

    As I sit here writing this I still can’t think of a better rhyme with “Pretty good.” I guess I’ll leave the rhyming to the rappers.

    Tune in tomorrow for another post full of something! I don’t know what, but it’ll be here. It’s a new year and I’ll find something to talk about! Maybe the economy! Oooooooo! I’ll bet the thought of that has you just begging for tomorrow to hurry up and come already. Well, sorry, you’ll just have to wait.

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