Busy Enjoying Myself

While yesterday’s post may make it seem like all I’m doing is work work work, I do have other plans in the pipeline that aren’t entirely worky and more or less wipe out the whole month of June. Brace yourselves for video, photo and maybe even audio overload.

At the beginning of June, I fly out the the US for WWDC. I’ll be staying with my friend Hans for a couple of weeks, both in his home and at a hotel in SF, if he ever fucking books it.

Then, right after WWDC I will be flying out to Kansas City to see the one and only Miss Ong, who’s lost a ton of weight (and is only being fairly-to-moderately annoying about it), and can attempt to put it all back on again as we eat our way through my visit.

Then it’s back to Hans’s place for another week and – oh look! – it’s Gay Pride on the last weekend. Rainbow-striped thong at the ready (not really). I fly out Sunday afternoon, home again Monday afternoon (damn those time zones).

After that, just a few days later, we schlep off to Brighton for a long weekend. This may seem like madness, but Miss Chick is attending a conference there during the week, and it seems downright wrong that she should go and us not. Plus, she’d probably be suicidal unless she gets some good gay fun while there. She is such a faghag, after all.

So, definitely a few interesting things to come! My credit card bill being one of them.

It’s So Funny How You Don’t Blog Anymore

OK, so nobody’s actually asked, but I realised that I haven’t been blogging much at all lately. Yes, I’ve put out a few videos (I am really enjoying making something out of nothing, often quite literally) and told the odd story, but I haven’t done a personal journal kind of entry since the last time I said I hadn’t done one in a while.

There are a few reasons for that:

1. I can’t be fucked.
2. There isn’t much to say.
3. I’m feeling more reclusive these days.
4. I’m fucking busy!

So, I want to deal with the last point, because if this is to be about my life, then that is my life right now. Trouble is this: on the one hand it’s boring, on the other, it might be a whole lot more interesting by the time this works itself out.

Or it might not.

First a little history. The anniversary of my self-employed career really occurs in April:

• Sometime in April 2003 I quit my corporate whore job. I didn’t actually leave until the end of May because of unused leave and notice and stuff, but my head left the job the minute I handed my notice in. I spent the next twelve months still doing things I didn’t want to do, however, so let’s ignore that year.
• April 2004 was when I started KIT (around about now, having planned it out for a few weeks), so this is effectively when Reinvented Software was born. KIT wasn’t released until August. In December I started Feeder, which I released the following February.
• By April 2005, thanks to Feeder, I felt more certain that I could make a living out of this, given time. What I didn’t know until a couple of months later was that podcasting would do its thing and that I wouldn’t need much time after all. The year passed in a moment.
• April 2006 saw me just get over that and finally look at where to go next. Trouble was, I had an awful lot of mess to sort out first. I’d been sprinting non-stop for 2 years and needed to tie up many loose ends and generally clean up the aftermath before I could move on. This proved to be soul destroying; I was making a reasonable living and thought I would be happy, but I wasn’t because things weren’t really finished.

So, here we are, April 2007. The mess is now sorted and the plan is set to go full steam ahead to take this thing to the next level. For the first two years (Apr 2004 – Apr 2006) I was in startup mode, last year was transitional and this year is another kind of make or break.

So, that’s why I’m being quiet on the blog, because I’m working like mad in the hope that this year will turn out to be another memorable one.

Surprise Birthday Gift

Ummmmmm, my great friend Andy Melton spent all damn day on his boiling hot iBook G3 to make the most amazing birthday gift that someone has ever made for me – a video all about me. Yay! Check it out on AndyNotAndrew.net, it’s really fun, and fabulous, and fantastic and more!

Thanks so much, Andy!!!

Video: Thirty2

We went for a Japanese meal on my birthday… I think.

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Click here to view this video on Vimeo, in Flash format. Birthday pics that go along with this video on Flickr.

Thanks for the online birthday wishes from my friends, Miss Chick, Mr Nut, Miss Penang, and my husband-to-be (apparently!), Miss/Mista Imma/Dag, whose birthday is one day after mine (and, er, a few years) and Andy, Brad, Matt and Sharon on the Twitter.

Video: Dex Express

Prawn cracker crunch-off, cute doggie stuff, Bob the Beetle and other random nothingness.

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Miss Chick’s Race for Life Sponsorship Page, where you can read her personal message (with some fun comments below). All money raised will go towards sports bra cancer research.

You can also see Dex Express with a Flash player on Vimeo.