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I brought you a cupcake

I didn't really bring you a cupcake, I'm sorry. But I would if I could. You deserve it. We have a place in Austin called Hey Cupcake! They're fantastic. If you were here, I'd take you there and get you a Red Velvet.

What's going on... we posted a new Space Monkeys! comic earlier this week. We were so wrapped up in working on this Web video pilot thing for the last few months that we've really been neglecting our beloved space creatures. PJ and I both realized we missed doing the comic, so we took steps to fix that which involved doing a comic, as linked above.

On that Web video front. After several failed attempts, we finally put together a video that was approved by the Web site. Now we're just waiting on contracts and the company's legal department to make sure we didn't besmirch the Pope or anything and then we're off to the races, I think. How do most of you deal with contracts? You close your eyes and sign and hope for the best, right?

At some point, I'd like to post the rough-draft audio of what we did, but I have no idea if that's going to be possible and I am loath to rock the boat until contracts have been signed and our pockets are lined with mad cash from corporate America. So for now, we're just waiting what might be a few weeks at least. I'll keep you updated on how that goes, but right now I know I'm just relieved that we arrived at a salable product after several moments where I just wanted to forget the whole thing.

Lilly's birthday week was quite wonderful, boring in a pretty great way. We went to South Texas, where time slows down to molasses. We went to the beach. This time, she loved it. She got in the water and splashed around, played with seashells, made interesting noises. It was much less traumatic than her first beach trip.

We started watching The Wire on our trip and soon realized that it's the absolute worse thing, apart from bestiality porn, that you can watch in front of a one-year-old right on the cusp of learning words. So we only made it through three episodes of the first season.

I'm still making noises in my head about moving this blog to Wordpress but I just don't have the damn time or energy. It's like having no remote control and watching what's on TV because you're way too lazy to get up and change the channel. I know I'm not happy with Blogger, I know I'm ready to redesign this site and move on. But, damn, that just sounds like the biggest pain in the ass I can imagine right now. So this site is stuck in 2001.

I don't want anything fancy, I just want the site to look a little cleaner, to do something more organized with the archives and to incorporate a FriendFeed widget of some kind so I can keep Twitter/Flickr/Digital Savant updates going without much work.

But I also don't want this site to look totally generic and to be beholden to a bunch of elements I can't control. What I did with Bloggystyle was to just make it look the way I wanted to in Dreamweaver with layers, converted it to tables and then cut/pasted the whole thing into a Blogger template. For better or for worse, it worked.

With this video project, though, and Smallville looming on the horizon, it doesn't look like I'll get to it anytime soon, unfortunately.

posted by Omar G. at 4:10 PM

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