It hasn’t been a bad week – it hasn’t been a great week, but it hasn’t been a bad week. I’m finishing up a couple of gigs, leading off on a couple more, and still hitting the exercise bike with determined zeal. It’s weird – remember what I wrote earlier about being more toned but […]
Boy, if every day this week turns out to be like yesterday I’d be finished with my entire to-do list on Friday. That would be good, because I’d also be dead. One of the things they don’t tell you when you go freelance is that, yeah, if you billed for a full 40 hours every […]
I don’t know if it’s some sick kind of burnout or what, but today I keep trying to get into a couple different client gigs and I just keep getting frustrated. I finished up one little project and then went to go read a magazine for a while as a break, and when I set […]
Today I learned a valuable lesson – don’t do your taxes at four in the morning. When I went back over them this afternoon, I discovered I’d deducted my laptop twice (oops) and not taken the full deduction on my new desktop machine, which made a huge difference on my bottom line. Mercifully, it was […]
Hot diggety dog, do I feel like crap. Last night I got home late, intending to do my taxes, when I discovered that my Quicken register and my Excel spreadsheet and my receipt envelopes weren’t playing nice with each other – so instead of actually doing calculations in TurboTax, I wound up spending another night […]
So SXSW is going on right now. I wish I were there. I especially wish I were there because it’s currently thirty-four degrees and blustery in Chicago. That said, I suppose it’s a good thing I didn’t go this time, because I’m busy as all get out right now. Nothing new, right? Some days I […]
OK, check this out. According to the BBC, a 20-year-old American is auctioning off advertising space on his forehead on eBay. For 30 days, the winning bidder will have their slogan, tattoo or whatever tattooed on his forehead. Bids are currently up to about $350 or so at last checking, so there’s a very real […]
September 6, 2004
1:06 am
Frank Bickford isn’t the guy who kicked a protester at the 2004 RNC, despite the post at the Daily Kos. Frank Bickford was the guy that had been interviewed before this jackass.
