The Magic Satchel

i was thinking yesterday that momentum plays a role with blogs much like it does with relationships…

we must not be in a state of rest.

wow.

According to this graphic, over 34 million people in the US are on food stamps. That is more than the entire estimated population of Canada.

I was just talking about the difference in cost of living between the US and Calgary with a friend and I can’t imagine how screwed people would be if Calgary’s cost of living was applied everywhere.

I have about 10 games in my lineup that date back to Medal of Honor Pacific Assault. In case you are wondering, yes I have finished Half Life 2.

So I really enjoy hockey, I enjoy building web sites, and I like supporting the community feel of the place were I live, currently Westbank (soon to be named West Kelowna), BC. So naturally a good place for for me to advertize my web business is a local community rink where parents take their children to learn to skate and play hockey! I have a 4foot-by-4foot ad going up on the wall beside the scoreboard.

I have a craigslist posting where you can see what the ad looks like!

I really enjoy doing local projects and hopefully this will give the right kind of exposure to do even more!

So, I finally became a twitterer or whatever it is that users of twitter are called.

I’d been putting it off forever, but a post-City Band discussion over beer, inspired me to remove my hands from my pockets and get on with it.

Who will tweet along with me?

dave on twitter

Yessir. I have built a new home for burning fish design. The old design had been around for a while with only minor tweaks along the way, so it was time to freshen up! There are a couple of sections that still need to be filled out and that will happen later this week. So check out the new home of Dave’s Okanagan Web Site Design. Invite your family over or send it to your friends! I am very happy with the way the new site turned out.

And if for some reason you want to see the old one, it has migrated here.

And remeber to p/d/p on oct 31! The details are in the previous post!

So I have finally moved the home of my web business/portfolio over to it’s own properly named website. I am getting some new business cards printed so it seemed prudent to have burningfishdesign.com as the URL on the card.

The exciting part of this is that now my old site, irwinguiffrey.ca, can hopefully start housing various music experiments and projects. My old computer is almost completely purged and ready to be reformatted as a “music only” device. Slowly I am moving towards creating more music, which is something that has been put off for far far too long.

Oh, and I have Neil Diamond tickets for GM Place in Sept… and I have 2 extras! Any takers?

At first I thought it was a New Years facelift, some inconvenient downtime for major maintenance that couldn’t take place with people constantly logging in and paging about.

Then I turned to the zeforums to discover that the little voice inside was right.. the ORG is gone.

Nobody saw it coming, and speaking for myself I had done very little in the way of external linking to so many of the people that I had on my quacker / friends list. I mean, why would I? they were already all in one convenient place, and it sure didn’t seem like it was going anywhere any time soon.
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First, a kudos to an entrepreneur. A friend of a friend has decided to go into business for herself creating and selling handmade nursing necklaces and I have to say that if she keeps at it with the passion that she has shown so far, she can’t fail! It was a lot of fun to build her website. She has put a lot of work into this venture: FeedBeads – Funky Beads for Funky Babies.

Vacation is Gone. Capital G. Like Hugo until his next birthday except that I don’t live in a wine cellar.

It was awesome. Great company. Good weather. Fun games. And now we have good friends coming to visit us! And we can’t wait!

This is what the end of vaction looked like:

Whew! Thank God we didn’t get a “NC” rating because I like the cougars. At least one I do. And that’s when I start playing the alphabet game:
A is for arse
B is for bee-yatch
C is for cunning linguist
D is for me
E is for elephantiasis of the genitals
F is for…