At this very moment I am at a bachelor party. So “What the hell am I doing in front of a computer?” you ask! Avoiding! That is what. Downstairs there is a bunch of guys, 1, at least with a rubber penis on his head, getting their fix of female solicitation. I am not against this sort of thing, I just have never been comfortable with the de-romanticism of sex. Okay, call me a pansy! Go ahead, I may deserve it. It is just that I know that these sort of things feel so utterly false. You receive a woman’s attention, you feel the curves of her body, you smell the sweetness of her skin, and you have a desire. But…hold on, this girl could care less. This is a job for her, you are a job! She performs and you take nothing with you from the experience but a story to tell, that the guys from the last party she worked are telling, at that very moment, down at the corner bar.

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To aleve the fact that I just cannot catch up on bills, or any money transaction for that matter I have decided to go on a full course tear through work. I figure the more I work on work, personal projects and developments, the less I will be spending money, or wasting gas. I am hoping the equation works out. What am I working on? For the most part I am practicing my CSS and web dev skills. I have to credit the peeps at the CSS Vault for the kick in the ass they gave me. I just love their site. It is well designed and gives me plenty of motivation by spotlighting talented CSS artists. Some of the sights in their gallery are just bad ass. I mean, I am new to this whole CSS thing; so when I see the things fellow artists are doing it just fuels my fire. So where will I apply it? At the moment I am working on more websites than I ever have before. At work I have been filling the roll of webmaster among other things. Traditionally I am a Graphic Designer; I have only designed and developed a handfull of websites. However I am discovering how much knowledge about the medium I have picked up over the years. At this current position with TelVue I am finally getting to gather all that knowledge and channel it to develop useable solutions. I am seeing that the years of being a sponge could possibly be paying off.

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