It’s been a while since I did anything with the site. I’ve been super busy with some projects at work, and I really haven’t had the motivation to work on my site. Last night, I finally got a good night’s rest. Over the past month and a half, I have been seeing a Sleep Specialist in order to determine whether i had Sleep Apnea or not. Come to find out: I do. Last night was the first night of sleep that I had while on a CPAPS Breathing Machine. I woke up on my own this morning. I wasn’t tired. I feel a lot better this morning than I have in quite some time. The CPAPS machine takes a little getting used to, but it isn’t all that bad! Damn, I feel good this morning!!!
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The Longest Day
I struggle to write this given the late hour… It’s been one helluva day. I woke up at 7am to take my truck to get it checked out, and it’s been non-stop ever since. Kim and I (with the help of her family) made amazing progress on our yard and in our house (we’re remodeling our guest bathroom). While I was away at the Addy’s tonight, my brother- and father-in-law demolished our entire bathroom — sink, vanity, toilet, floor and all. It looks like downtown Baghdad in there. While they were in there having their “fun” I was downtown at The Pinnacle Club for the 2003 Augusta Advertising Federation’s Addy’s Ceremony. The Alison Group had an amazing night. We won ALL THREE Best of Show Awards, FIVEGold Addy’s, and I can’t tell you how many Silver Addys. I even won two Silver Addy’s for two websites I had worked on:
Needless to say, I’m extremely please with how well we did. This was the second year in a row that we brought home all of the Best of Show awards. We took home a lot of awards… I’m more glad than ever to be apart of such an amazing company.
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One of those days…
Today is gonna be just one of those days…
Oh yeah…
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MAJOR Updates Underway
MAJOR updates underway. Revamped the site shell. Reorganized the pages. Reorganized my stylesheet. Reworked all of my template files. Welcome to Version 8.0. An interesting sidenote to this is — I’m finally using Dreamweaver MX to work on the site… It saves a lot of time being able to work in one program opposed to working in Notepad, WSFTP, and Internet Explorer… Why’d I wait so long? Still hand-coding though… Some habits are hard to kill…
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iTunes Giveaway
Surely by now you’ve heard of the new Itunes/Pepsi promotion going on.
I just ran by the Bi-Lo on Fury’s Ferry and snagged two winners. Thank you for “Hey Ya!” and “Clocks”!!
God I love those songs. Not sure where the songs are available? One place you might want to check out is:
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Stuff
It’s been a couple of days since I posted anything on the website. It has been a rather hectic week for me. I’ve been working pretty diligently on two sites that I hope to preview on here next week. Work’s been keeping me extremely busy. I’ve had late nights 3 out of 5 nights this week. Last night I didn’t get in until after 11:30pm. When you leave for work at 7am and get home that late… it makes for one hella-long day. It’s cool though. The weekend is here. I’m just chilling, taking a breather, watching my favorite tv shows (American Chopper and American Hot-Rod on the Discovery Channel). Until my next update…
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Happy Holidays
An experience I had today made me appreciate all the things in my life that much more. Several co-workers and I volunteered today at the Golden Harvest Food Bank here in Augusta, Georgia. I was sad to see that so many people needed a service like the food bank provides daily, but I was extremely proud to be able to help out such an amazing cause.
I was challenged this year to do three things this holiday season… give money, give blood, give time. What does all of that mean? Well, the first one is pretty self-explanatory … give money to a charity of your choice… if you can only give $20 bucks, give $21… give that little bit extra, even if it makes things tough for you, because it will make a difference to somebody. Even if you affect just one person, that is still one life you’ve made a difference in.
The most amazing, most significant thing a person could do is give blood… I gave and gave and gave until the FDA passed regulations that prevent people that have lived in Europe for longer than six months to donate any longer. Please, please, please give blood if you can.
I offer this same charge to you… Do something for somebody else. Do something that makes a difference in somebody’s life. Do it because you can.
Happy Holidays, Everybody! You CAN make a difference for somebody this holiday season.
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Ho Ho Ho, Merry Freakin’ Christmas
Life teaches us countless lessons. In my twenty-two short years, I’ve made a lot of mistakes. But through each one, there was always one constant — my family has remained supportive of me. I suppose the lesson that I’ve learned and kept closest to my heart is that there is nothing more important than friends and family.
We, as a society, are consumers at heart. We purchase more then any other country in the world. We’ve turned all of our major holidays into consuming sessions. We buy and buy and buy all of these things we don’t need. Other countries look at us, and all they see is this huge, bloated, overconsuming nation of overweight slobs.
Is this the example we want to provide to everyone else? Are we to be the examples for the rest of the world? Imagine if everyone consumed as much as Americans. The world would have been barren years ago. Many of us don’t realize what it is we’re consuming. We’ve become the nation with the highest rates of obesity ever… We’re buying more and more on credit just to feed our appetites to own things… unnecessary things… Where the hell did we go wrong? Why do we need all of this meaningless crap? Does it make us happy? Does it make us feel more complete? Who the heck knows…
Let’s remember what the holidays are really supposed to be about, even from a non-religious perspective. It’s about sharing and caring and spending time with the special people in your life. Let’s try and change things and not whore this time of year anymore.
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The best thing to happen to me.
you know, i just realized something — i really haven’t talked about my kim much, since i started littering this site with my posts. kim is such an important part of my life, and i love her so much. you’d think i would write about her more here, but for one reason or another … i haven’t.
kim is amazing. she makes me smile when i’m down. she makes me laugh whenever i’m around her. when i’m with her, she makes me feel complete. she makes me feel like the person i’m supposed to be. despite my many flaws, she makes me feel … perfect.
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anthrax… bah…
a lot can happen in two months. our whole world has changed. i’ve changed. we’re a little more cautious then we were before. we’re a little more weary of the world around us. we’re never going to be the same again.
as our soldiers pound afghanistan with missiles and bombs, and descimate any kind of infrastructure they could of had, we’re facing the possibility here stateside that any piece of mail we might receive could contain anthrax in it. so far, a few dozen people have been found positive with anthrax, including a seven month old baby.
what kind of sick animal would do this to innocent people?
just thinking about the idea of someone, somewhere sending out letters of death to random people pisses me off. it’s just something you don’t do. what bothers me even more about it is that on one of the letters, it was addressed to make it look like the letter came from a 4th grade classroom. what in the hell?
i wouldn’t doubt that someone like bin Laden is connected with these cowardly attacks.
when we find this bastard, we need to make him hurt for a very long time. screw killing him. he wants to die. it’ll further his cause. we need to lock him away in a prison, where pain is inflicted upon him 24/7. maybe then he’ll learn. and if that doesn’t work? we start removing body parts. start with his toenails and fingernails. then work inwards.
he hates us and he hates the western world. wait til he feels first hand our hatred towards him.