June 2007
Jon Deal: whoa. our managing officer just handed me a bonus envelope. Dude, I’m going to BestBuy after work! (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
May 2007
Jon Deal: starting to freak out about turning 40 next week. But at least I can justify my mid-life crisis now. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: “Hi! I’m Adobe Illustrator! Today, I’ll be crashing incessantly! Yes, it will be both horrible and maddening. You’ll get used to it. Thanks” (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: home again. so nice to have kids jump on me when I walked into the house. They like me! They *really* like me! 32 hour day over very soon. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: We went through a rift in the space-time continum and made from Glendale to LAX in 20 minutes (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Happy happy joy joy. Amazing meeting. Client happy. no yelling. Now I can sleep. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: LAX. Waiting for my ride to the meeting. Why is the air the consistsncy of soup? (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Exit row seat! Leg room FTW. Wake me when we get to LAX. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: At the airport now. Cruising on 57 minutes of sleep. This is what comes of going to staff meeting. Got this assignment there. Oy vey. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: done done done. Thinking that I’m just going to have time to go home, shower and take kidlets to school and then catch the plane. grumpy. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: 17-18 slides. Practicing the presenting now. Panic lessened, but still teeming under the surface. 6 more hours until the plane takes off. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: one quarter done with presentation from Hell. Zoraster, save me! (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: now officially beginning the Keynote/presentation/crazy-making phase (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: panicking. plane leaves in less than 12 hours and I’m only just now getting to the presentation extravaganza I have to do in LA. i’m screwed (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: beginning to have some concern about finishing all the stuff I have to do before the presentation tomorrow afternoon (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: still haven’t been able to start on 45 minute presentation in LA to $_MAJOR_CLIENT. I’m so doomed, they’ll have to invent a new word for it. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Well, I hope you are happy. My screed about mini-vans vs SUVs is now up. http://tinyurl.com/ytascz It’s possible that I need an editor. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: There is no escape for me. Have to go to LA tomorrow and get yelled at. I’m like the studio’s sacrificial lamb or something. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: normal sunday afternoon activities: cleaning the house. “An unprecedented level of filth on the kitchen floor” my wife has a way with words (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Bookmark for later: http://www.pimphats.com “Highest Quality Pimp Products Produced and Sold Here” Because I need a new tooth grill, duh. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: @blurb That somehow reminded me of the movie Clerks;
Dante Hicks: You hate people!
Randal Graves: But I love gatherings. Isn’t it ironic? (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: iTMS! Where is my Studio 60 D/L?! I know I’m the only dork who bought a season pass and the show is dead, but come on! Help a brother out! (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: listening to Steve Job’s 2005 Stanford commencement address. http://itunes.stanford.edu/index.html then you have to search around to find it (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Going running. In shorts. Pasty white thigh patrol should be on High Alert. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: drive by stalking: perusing log files and you see someone (not a bot) rifling through the site archives, but they NEVER come back. creepy. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Dropping my daughter off at day care she says to me: “bye, chicken fart!” nice. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: my hetero man crush for the day: Ray Davies of The Kinks (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: my 13 year old son thought faggot *only* meant “bunch of sticks” http://tinyurl.com/yt8nmf Ah, to be young and naïve. And clueless. So cute. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: color correx instructions from Client: “make it less purple, but stay blue-ish, and add some warmth. A happy balance.” Kill me now, please. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: ran out of anti-perspirant this morning. Turns out that “Secret” isn’t really strong enough for a man. Never borrow your wife’s (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: spilled an entire bottle of water into my lap. Right now I look like I have a bladder control problem. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Staff meeting. Maybe a giant hole will open up in the earth and swallow us all. A boy can dream. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Happy birthday to Jonah! (boy2) (he’s 9 today!) (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Watching my oldest son play “Freebird” (guitar hero 2) on the expert setting. Holy crap. Im sitting on the couch holding up a lighter. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: In a bestbuy. Wow, I could spend far too much money in a place like this. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Saturday is the busiest day of the week. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: client cancelled the “yell at us conference call” The gist: “make it *more* creative.” I’m heading home to get even more stupid. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Client still hasn’t called to yell at us. I think they are being sadistic on purpose. “So and so is running late,” my furry booty. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: sitting here @ 6 PM on a Friday, waiting for the Client to call and yell at us. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Five (5!) *very* large projects are all done. I can’t believe we finished everything. I don’t know what to do with myself now. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: putting a sign up in the men’s room: “If you don’t flush properly, the terrorists win.” (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: @Moltz true, but i’d have a *much* harder time explaining a “daring furball” t-shirt to my wife. “See, there’s this one site…” (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Hey! Just figured out that my Daring Fireball t-shirt came today! Now I have something to wear tomorrow! (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: school district’s site is down. SO we can’t practice boy#2’s speeling words. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Im in ur printing press, screwing up the registration. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Tardy because my daughter decided to dump a jug of lemonade on her head. Unclear as to exactly why she did this. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Ah, the smell of printing. Lovely paper! Ink! Delicious! Stinky press operators! Not so delicious! (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: going to press check a large arts-y book/piece that I neither produced nor have I ever seen. This should be interesting. And disastrous. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: Overheard in the studio this morning: “I would go, but my gnome suit is hot and itchy.” (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
Jon Deal: we have a high pressure home alarm salesman in our house right now. He broke in so he could talk to us, so I guess we need his product. (via Twitter / Jon Deal)
