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Time flew and laziness set in

04/17/2007 / Matt / 1 Comment

[08:34] < @chiqy> matt, i am extremely disappointed in your blog of late.

I know — bad blogger bad blogger!!! As Linda so graciously pointed out it has been a whole week since an update, so let me get you up to speed…

Thanks to Justin for taking Phil, myself and Christa to game 1 of the Detroit Red Wings vs Calgary Flames Stanley cup quarter finals series last Thursday. The hockey playoff energy is amazing!
Friday Bob came over and Christa and I spent the evening watching current.tv and talking politics with him.
Saturday was Darius‘ birthday, so we all went down to an event at the Fi-nite Gallery in corktown and had a rip roaring good time until dawn.
Sunday was house cleaning day. You didn’t miss much.

So this week has just flown by ridiculously fast, and I’ll try to keep up on new news.

Which incidentally, big news may be posted here soon, I’m crossing my fingers on it…

Not afraid to post embarassing photos

04/11/2007 / Matt / 3 Comments

My sister has a sick and twisted sense of humor. I received in the mail today an Easter photo of me, from 1981.
The bunny in this photo looks like a scary 80s alien.

My 4 year old nephew Dylan included an Easter card for me.

Why music can ‘touch’ you

04/10/2007 / Matt / 1 Comment

Found this video on YouTube, and it pretty interestingly shows how sound waves can effect the world around us, and possibly why they can have such a profound effect on people as well.

I never thought of myself as the must-have-a-nice-yard type, but this blast of winter after the 2 weeks of warm weather is devastating the flowers that came up already in the flowerbeds out front of the house…

Have a great Easter!

Equal Opportunity Photoblog

04/07/2007 / Matt / 4 Comments

In an effort to give equal opportunity to both Bailey & Monty on the blog, here’s a shot of Bailey “helping” me stomp some promo CDs this afternoon.

Oh the life of a kitty…

How to look busy without much effort

04/06/2007 / Matt / 2 Comments

So I have this manager, who for the sake of this post we’ll call “Dave”. “Dave” is a manager’s manager. Ever seen NBC’s The Office? Well think of “Dave” as Steve Correll, only dorkier and less socially adept.

“Dave” is out today, “sick”, so I was over in his cube this morning pulling out today’s tapes to run the weekend backups. I do this so often that there’s nothing really exciting or new about his cube, but for some reason I was curious about the large stand up manila folder organizer standing proudly in your face as soon as you walk into his area. It seems to scream “HEY, LOOK AT ME I’M SO IMPORTANT AND BUSY THAT I’VE GOT SO MANY PROJECTS REQUIRING THIS NIFTY ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEM”. I was so curious I took a quick peep to see what all these projects were about, since if these were projects he was organizing, chances are that I’m the one doing the work.

So I started flipping through the first folder, and there was blank paper inside. That’s weird. I checked another, and wouldn’t you know it, there was more blank paper. Another folder, more blank paper.
MORE. BLANK. PAPER.
To be fair, I found a couple of folders with watermarked CONFIDENTIAL paper in them, but it was still blank paper.

So note to self, apparently I need to clean up the mess of computer parts, computers, books, network equipment & cabling off my desk, since that apparently just shows I’m messy, not busy. The really, truly busy people just keep files of blank paper out in the open on their clean desk, since you never know when you’ll need a piece of watermarked CONFIDENTIAL paper to write down a phone number or something…

Michigan Weather 101

04/04/2007 / Matt / 1 Comment

Michigan Weather 101: Wait a day and things will be different.
Over the past 2 weeks Winter changed into Spring, Spring changed into Summer, and both Spring and Summer got thrown out and Winter came back with a vengeance.
It was 82F last week at this time, and its 32F this week.
It wouldn’t be so bad if I wasn’t getting used to the no-jacket-play-with-the-dog-outside weather.

April

04/02/2007 / Matt / 0 Comments

Welcome to April.
I’ve got nothing today, so here’s a picture of Monty upset I’m more interested in taking a picture of him than throwing his damn frisbee…

The HolyCrapTheWeddingIsInLessThan3Months Post

03/29/2007 / Matt / 2 Comments

So 2 big things have happened in the past few days regarding the wedding, and if you answered “tuxes” and “limo”, then you were probably with us or I already called you about it (sorry internet – you’re second billing this time).

I picked out the tuxes for the groomsmen & the fathers on Tuesday night. I went with the Men’s Warehouse since we have 2 out of state groomsmen and 1 out of country groomsmen. Luckily there’s a Men’s Warehouse in both Chicago & Atlanta, and apparently Moore’s Menswear in Canadia is owned by MW, so Adam is lucky he doesn’t have to have a forced visit in the next few weeks. The tuxes are Kenneth Cole, one of my favourite designers. I figure if we can’t be comfortable, we might as well be stylin’.

Wednesday we went to check out Limo World in Hazel Park after work. Basically with the size of our wedding party, we were very limited in our options of cars. We both wanted the Rolls Royce but had to settle for an 18 passenger Lincoln.

We’re also working on finalizing a time line which I hope to post up soon. There are a million details you don’t think about up front that suddenly come at you from every direction. Anyone have any Prozac?

Blog goes into “Spring in Ferndale” mode

03/28/2007 / Matt / 0 Comments

Just a quick note that I spruced up the blog header from “Winter in Detroit” mode, to “Spring in Ferndale” mode.

The photos are some I grabbed off the internets of the 9 Mile & Woodward area of downtown Ferndale. Of note you will see in rotation the Woodward Avenue Brewers (one of our favourite hangouts), Como’s (best pizza in town – hands down!), the Woodward streetscape looking north from 9 Mile, and the 9 Mile & Woodward street sign.