not only is my lady love a badass in many non-technical respects, but she can hack together a website:

j2nancy.com

Saw "Wicked" last night, and glad to see recognition for our green sisters.

Listening to the new Verve... waiting for the inevitable synth wash tastiness.

It's a cold economy out there, not just a cold temperature.

But I have this particular kind of hopefulness.

I'm getting hitched on the first of Spring.

suddenly it is January of 09. The fire + 1 year and three days. We made it.

people keep finding me on facebook and other social sites and reconnecting. every day some old school head pops up and says hi. it's the only thing that makes it worth ignoring all the zombie application requests.

this year stands a very good chance of being more "interesting times". moving to get ahead of the curve by taking all this production equipment and selling our own designs straight over the web. finally got all the ecommerce stuff mapped out. it's a code-slog, but it's worth it. i don't know much php, but in a few months i'll certainly know more of it. i haven't coded in years.

oh, by the way. for all those who said "wouldn't it be great if someone like Obama _could_ get elected?" - i'm very proud of us as a whole. it's easy to be cynical but just every once in a while society and democracy actually deliver. i wonder what we'll look back on this time and think? we've all got a huge pile of economic-poop equivalent to shovel. how will this shake out?

now it's a much more ground-level view. january and february are cold and not too many people wear tshirts in weather like this.

so we adapt, and work on the site for spring...