Everyone whose told me about the book called Getting Things Done use the sentence "it changed my life" somewhere in their description. Some of these same people are mooches that have a fake portfolio and bounce from contract job to contract job. This bohemian-in-denial lifestyle is becoming more and more appealing to me; let me tell you why:

Advent Performance is in full swing. You should stop by, check out the site, and buy a few things. Much of the content migrated from their old OS commerce site still needs to be... beautified. Also, there are some issues where the calculated shipping seems a bit to hefty for very lightweight items. AP's proprietor, Cameron, is an awesome guy with some cool ideas for AP and beyond, I simply don't have the time — and in some cases, expertise — that a lot of his ideas require, but that won't stop me from trying.

In addition to that, I'm working on a video project for a site called Onforza, which is focused around creative video content generated with Microsoft's new racing simulation, Forza Motorsport 3. While the website is 90% there, the video production is painfully slow. Considering that I have to "act," direct, edit, and lend voice talent, I'm now creeping up on a month and the first video is not yet completed. I look at what the guys at Penny Arcade TV did and think, "wow, video is just so accessible now — what the fuck is wrong with me?"

Along with my superpowers of not being able to pay a bill on time or remember to do basic life things like lose weight and order checks, I am in the progress of getting ready for a week-and-some vacation to California. While I have a lot of my Christmas shopping done (Tina's gift rocks!), the actual act of planning what, where, and when will likely be put off until we're actually on the plane ride over. This will be the first time that my extended family will have met Tina and the first time I have seen any of my bahzillion cousins since I was 16 and they were scarcely able to use the bathroom without assistance. With my uncanny ability to screw up every holiday (only one I haven't messed up yet is the 4th of July), I'm sure it will go off without a hitch.

LBG is LBG. Writing is becoming less and less important because (I think) we just woke up to the fact that the business doesn't monetize on it. Now I'm slipping back into PHP/Drupal land to fix this situation, where my narrow band of skills will eventually make a website manifest, much like hewing a statue from a slab of marble using nothing but a bullwhip. I have been continually reminded over the last 3 months that my ignorance in the realm of LAMP stacks, AJAX, and jQuery will always mark me as a second-tier web designer. To me, that's the equivalent of telling me that I don't have the bean-counting skills to become a statistician, the listening skills to be a social worker, and the upper body strength to be a dockworker. It's not a direction I want to go, but the skills on my resume say it's the way I'm headed.