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Jared’s last day…

Well, today was Jared’s last day at work… a sad day indeed. We had all been joking/talking about how we were going to leave early for the day, find a nice pub/bar with a nice deck, and share in a few drinks to toast Jared and give him a proper send-off…

Okay, so that sort of happened…

First of all, barely anyone was in the office — everyone was on vacation or had other plans they couldn’t cancel or we just plain didn’t ask them. Secondly, we didn’t get to leave early — we were there right until closing. I even stayed a bit later to copy some files I needed to work over the weekend [fun]. Thirdly, half of us were just too tired to make the event worthy of being called an event…

…but it was still nice. We’ll miss you, Jared. Be sure to come back and harass us. Skype for the Mac now has video* capabilities so we’ll have to figure that one out.
Have a great trip and be sure to come bug us when you get back.
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steelie

*The version they have for download from the official website does NOT have video capabilities but the “unofficial” latest BETA release, which you can download here, does have it.

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All-nighter number one…

Well… here I sit at work, just about to embark on my first of who knows exactly how many all-nighters this week. The project I posted about in my first entry is pseudo out of control… Essentially I have this week to get everything done — EVERYTHING! I don’t even have all of the resources I need to get the entire project  done yet. One of the people who is supposed to be getting me most of the resources, informed me that I will probably receive the rest of the files tomorrow… My reaction when I heard this? “Um, excuse me. Okay, well that easy enough for you to say but I need to have the final files to the the fabricator by Friday in order to make our deadline”.

(…sorry, forgot to mention that I’m a graphic designer…)

His reaction? [smirk]+“Well, that still gives you a whole three days”. Earlier on, this same person informed me that anything beyond him getting me the files is my problem. It’s my job to “work my magic” to bring the entire thing together… AWESOME!

Let the night begin…

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steelie

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A big week ahead…

Well, I decided to write over my initial VOX-test-post with something a bit more substantial… well, short but more significant.


I don't have a lot of time to post about it right now but this week, I've been given way more resposibility than usual. I'm am to essentially oversee all aspects of preparing display and event graphics for an even that happens in four weeks from yesterday. I've never done anything like this before… my managers are on vacation… all co-workers who have previously worked on these types of events — potential resources essentially — are on vacation… and I'm having a bit of brain freeze because I'm not sure of how to start.


I'm sure posting this is not the best use of my time… I don't even know what the event space looks like to plan where any graphics would go… I only found out about this on Friday morning when I was asked to “participate” in a tele-confernece, when in-fact, all I did was stared wide-eyed at a telephone as some disjointed voice — that I only know as JP — laid out the schedule of my life for the next three weeks.


First things first… I need to find out who TF JP is and get info on the space…


Oh, there will be way more to say about this four weeks from now…

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steelie

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