A little late to be posting this, but I have another video of Zoey. After Christmas, Target has crazy clearance on their Christmas items. As you may already know, we got some cat costumes for our kitties. This included a full Santa suit.

We later read the packaging, and it said it was for animals up to 12 pounds. Zoey’s 12½. When you have to lose weight so that you look like jolly ol’ St. Nick, something is wrong.

Second design for Cutter’s site. I’ll try one with some actual color next.

Scientology: endorsed by Tyler Durden.

Our company just purchased a new site relating to massage therapy training and work. We’re redesigning, so we need a new logo. Here is my submission. The good news is, as we’re going to be Wii boxing to determine the winner, I stand a good chance of winning!

What started as an idea for a joke on Facebook turned into a more serious status update, which has now turned into a blog post.

If you don’t know, a few weeks back, girls all over Facebook started posting the colors of the bras they were wearing, but nobody said why. It turns out it was for breast cancer awareness. Lately, there’s been something similar involving cryptic posts about monsters, elevators, and cars. All of this leaves me mystified.

First of all, secretive publicity stunts are annoying as hell. If they at least posted why they were posting the color of their bras, that would be something, but leaving for people to figure out on their own (or, in most cases, ignore) is a gimmick that I’d expect from an Evangelical church youth group, but not a cancer awareness group. And are they really expecting people to say, “Holy shit! I’d completely forgotten about breast cancer!” Why not spend the time raising an awareness for a condition that really needs it?

I don’t want to propose that bipolar disorder is as serious or kills as many people as breast cancer; but few people understand that bipolar disorder actually does kill some people, and the sympathy surrounding breast cancer is often replaced by prejudice and social stigmas around bipolar. Other mental disorders have stigmas as well, ranging from disbelief and mockery (autism and ADHD) to fear and blatant misconceptions (schizophrenia), but bipolar disorder is my battle to fight, so I’ve chosen that one.

In light of all that, here are some statistics on bipolar disorder.

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Here’s a rather brilliant theory on Star Wars episode IV (if you’re into that sort of thing).

I hadn’t thought about any of this, but I have to admit, it all makes sense. I’d be interested to think some more along these lines. I’ll dig around and see if this guy has written anything else.

I just discovered The Swell Season. No, not the book—the band. Here’s one of their songs:

I’m really impressed with them so far. Apparently, they almost won a Grammy for the song “Falling Slowly,” which appeared on the Once soundtrack, but lost out to some song from the Dreamgirls soundtrack.

Also, I’ve recently discovered some of Regina Spektor’s other albums (most notably, Soviet Kitsch) and I’m really digging those. I’ve always admired her music, but I’d only heard one album (Begin to Hope), and I couldn’t get into it as much as some of her other stuff.

I’m doing some work for a band-mate of mine, Cutter Gage. He wants a site for his music. I’m drawing up a few designs, but here’s the first. It still needs a little work, but I want to get approval on an idea before I really move forward with it.

I’m going to work on a second one tomorrow, hopefully.

Janelle’s sister, Alaine, bought our cats some Christmas gifts this year.

Franny
Zoey
Sherlock

Also among the gifts were some new toys and a crap-load of catnip.