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I acquired the first season of How I Met Your Mother, and have been enjoying it over the past few days. I realized that at just about every point in my life, I have made relatively close friends with a Barney. I guess I go for charming and arrogant, hm?
Lucy’s survived her first week in Atlanta rather well, despite an ant emergency and a whole lot of rain. Not seeing each other in person has led to a fair amount of WoW – we both now have two top-level characters to play with.
I think about our chatter on Ventrilo, and it is amazing. We go in and out of private conversation all day on our headsets, occasionally bumping into other friends in the same server or hopping servers to chat with other folks together. People we’ve never met (yet), but have known for a year, now. Phones vs Ventrilo: It’s like the difference between using an old-school BBS and a current, threaded, ranked, profile-based forum like LiveJournal.
Work is frantic. We are making a major technology transition (Premiere for Final Cut and PC to mac), a major hosting transition (version 2 to version 4, requiring new players), a major format transition (flash video to mp4), a major hardware transition (a few PCs and a time-shared Mac to a new macbook pro and 3 imacs), and a huge, huge productivity transition (one daily show to two, plus a Sunday show and random extra interviews and projects). All at once. All within the next few weeks. I’m trying to keep my brain from having a meltdown over the incredible complication – significant f’ing logistics.
The DIY track at Penguicon is mega exciting. Seriously, I can not wait. Within the next two weeks we’ll be nailing down the titles, text and panelists for our panels – in mid-week, as my co-head (haha) has major events on each weekend leading up to Penguicon. I am proud of the awesomeness we have organized so far!
My eating decisions are largely entirely terrible, though occasionally a ray of light will shine through. I brought apples and a small bag of tiny cookies in for lunch each day last week, which was good. I also ate pretty huge dinners, which was not. Lucy and I both eagerly await living together, when it’ll be easier for me to do such crazy things as: buy some milk and not watch some of it go bad. Buy a loaf of bread and finish it without making sandwiches for 3 meals a day, every day. Buy salad greens and have more than one bowl before tossing it.
And, our wedding is coming along. I’m a little frantic about decorating, honestly. It’s not Lucy’s interest, and I know more about what I don’t want (hokey, uber-flowery, super-elaborate) than I do (purple and light green, modern, games-related or “us”-related wherever possible as long as it doesn’t look ridiculous).
On tha last part: I need help, both with the ideas and the implementation. If you think that sounds like fun, please offer, my gratitude overflows.
Babe, don’t worry too much about the decorating – I honestly don’t think we need *that* much. Our tables will be set up nicely, you and I will do something little for the games theme on the tables, and I don’t know what more we really need. Of course, as you said – I’m completely disinterested in the decorating field overall, so maybe I’m way off base with what we actually need. Do you want to talk about doing a powerpoint slide show? Or having picture collages around the room like at Amy/Alex’s? Those might be more fun than worrying about green and purple things hanging on the walls.
Sure, we can do something like that. :)
I’ve been to some awesome weddings in the last year. All of them were understated and chill, with alot of little personal touches that made me smile and think of the couple specifically. Don’t be afraid to be “inside jokey”, dorky, or plain weird. It’s your day, and as long as it’s not some hillbilly fest (unless it’s what you want!) or so fancy as to be impersonal, it’ll be wonderful.
Stop worrying. It’s your day, so no one else really gets an opinion! ;)
I’ve found that sticking to ONE wedding website and slowing reading it for ideas has been helpful.
You may need to go through a bit faster, but Offbeatbride.com has been awesome. They recently had a Viking wedding featured under the “wedding porn” filter. Anyway, it’s easier to steal ideas from people who will never come to your wedding and will never know that you copied them.
Andy & I still haven’t figured out how to incorporate pirates, but we will…
Anyway, we’re going for minimal decorations. I am refusing to have flowers. It’s October – we’re having pumpkins and cranberries and ivy. No fucking flowers. It’s such a damn relief.
Wow, do I hear you…I wish I could help, but all I can do is sympathize with the Transitions Upon Transitions situation (oh yes), and wish you luck. I’m sad that I will miss out on Penguicon, but at this point I feel I’d better be grateful if I still have time for oxygen in a few months.
Anyway, trust me, you *don’t* want my help with any decorating. ;)
Best!
Wow, that is a huge amount of technology shifts at one time… I just (within the last 6 months) personally switch from PC to Mac (although I virtualized my old PC and put it in vmware on the mac for an easy transition).
I’d be curious to hear your thoughts on FC vs Premiere.
Btw: Hi, my name is Gypsy, I found you through the random Journal link and yours was the first one I actual felt like responding too…. as a matter of fact, the simple fact that you know what a BBS is almost enough for me to go friend you… think I will now ;)