it’s been about 3 months since i’ve seen my family and about 4-5 months since i’ve seen my friends in Seattle. needless to say it’s time to go see them again. i miss those bastards (and bastardettes) and i figured it was time.

what have i been doing in preparation for this upcoming trip? well - nothing! i have been doing random other stuff though. mostly talking to potential clients, reconnecting with some friends from college and redoing (yet again) my business website. (www.moreplusone.com) so let’s go over these in order.

the talks with potential clients - nothing has solidified yet but i really shouldn’t complain. i have yet to do any real promotion of my business and yet people have been kind enough to come to me by either recommendations or because they’ve worked with me in the past. when you think of it that way - i’m pretty damn lucky! and don’t think i don’t appreciate it - i do.

reconnecting with college friends - i got a random email from a friend of mine from college. we became friends cause i spent a lot of time at the computer labs and this guy used to work behind the counter. i would bug him constantly as i was introduced to this new thing called the internet, webpages and photoshop. he liked the fact that i could draw and was interested in technology and we became friends. since then we parted ways - we both graduated and did different stuff. i stayed in seattle and started working for a design firm and he went off to god knows where. well since then he has apparently been to brazil and japan which is where he resides now. he then got me back in touch with another college friend - we became friends cause we both tried out for the  design department at UW. he found that he enjoyed ID (industrial design) more and pursued that. we also kinda parted ways - during this time he has interned at nintendo, traveled to japan to check out the ID department at nintendo and is now working at boeing - and he can’t tell me anything of what he does there. he sounds very happy.

my business website - i just wasn’t happy with it so i decided to update it. they say that you’re your own worst critic. i have to agree. whenever i work for other people the answers / designs are so easy. they come to me without any hesitation or any great effort - but when it comes to my own stuff (like my business website) it’s a struggle! it’s been updated 3 times now but the actual times i’ve designed and redesigned it… way way more. so why the struggle? i wish i knew - i basically follow the exact same steps i use when working on any project, and yet with my own projects i seem to come to a mental block - thus my projects come to a stand still. oh well - i guess i just have to work and rework my projects.