We really are missing something

Excruciatingly excited.
My oh my! How time flies these days when you have people to write you pay checks and you have holidays on the weekends. Before I knew it this week, it was Friday and I was sitting hungry at Smartech's annual company dinner, playing word games and winning scavenger hunts. Saturday was spent out in the sun of the day at The Austin Zoo, and 4 dollars never fed so many goats and sheep.

Other than that, happy V-Day everyone! I hope everyone got who they wanted his year! I've never really been into celebrating the simple act of celebrating relationships, so needless to say, chocolates and flowers aren't really my epitomes of romance. Instead, Jake and I picked up and headed for the hills, with a fresh, new picnic basket and an eagerness to get away from anything red and pink. I found my true Valentine, which makes me wonder, what is your V-Day?

Cut-out creativity
Jake and I also came across a little gem the other day in one of our records from Goodwill. Inside was a tear-out record, complete with Mad Magazine racist rants and character dialogues from the magazine. This treasure, dating back to 1973, is an innovation, and still stands as one of the most creative forms of magazine advertising I have ever seen. When did we stop pushing the envelopes as print media, and why can't these artifacts still be circulated and cherished today? It's hard for me to get behind the belief that all of the truly creative ideas are already taken and played out. Instead, we should keep challenging each other to create more and better material, and stop focusing on what everyone else has their hands on around us.

While I continue my search for my creative calling, Jake and I started our second batch of beer, a blood orange hefeweizen, a.k.a. Deatheweizen. It's fruity, it's wheaty, and boy is it tempting already. Kook podcasts coming up, and after dark radio shows soon after that. Stay tuned.