A Personal Blog
Archive for January, 2006
Cool Liberal Blog
Jan 4th
The Liberal Party of Canada isn’t exactly known for being cool. However, the blog post today on their “official” blog (which is really just one guy, not anything official at all) is ultra cool. Take a read of two new commercials the blogger is proposing:
Commercial One
Sinister music over black-and-white images of Stephen Harper chasing adorable children off his lawn, possibly while holding a rake. Deep, ominous voiceover:
Stephen Harper wants to be Prime Minister. But his initials are S.H.
Paul Martin’s initials are P.M.
P.M. the PM. Get it? It’s pretty catchy.
S.H. the PM? Come on! That doesn’t work at all.
When Stephen Harper runs to be Superintendent of Housing or Super Haberdasher or some stupid thing, that’s when you vote for him.
Commercial Two
Sinister music over black-and-white images of Stephen Harper having his smile installed. Deeper, even more ominous voiceover:
Stephen Harper says he wants to be Prime Minister.
But we already have a Prime Minister. His name is Paul.
So, like, what gives?
Imagine showing up at work and there’s Stephen Harper and his wife and two kids sitting in your cubicle.
That would totally suck.
Stephen Harper: Go get your own job, buddy.
I love a blogger that can laugh at his bosses, laugh at the competition and get away with it. Whoever decided to hire this guy deserves a medal. Who’d'a thunk a campaign blog could make me giggle like a school girl?
My New Full-Time Job
Jan 4th
Ever since striking out on my own, doing consulting, book writing, speaking, freelance writing and a bit of client work here and there I’ve said to myself that I never again wanted a full-time job. Part of this is because I really love it out here in St. Stephen. If there was the perfect job that let me stay here, I’d think about taking it.
But, a bigger part is that I love the flexibility I have day to day to do what I enjoy. Some days I’ll write. Others I’ll be doing b5media stuff. Others I’ll just poke around at various projects and others I’ll be travelling or doing consulting.
It agrees with my personality to be able to excel in a variety of areas, without being tied down to one area in particular.
The problem has become two-fold. First, b5media is taking up more and more of my time. Second, I love what I do with b5media.
So, as of today, b5media is now my full-time job. I’ll still have some variety in my work, as I’ll spend only about 6-7 hours a day on b5 and take Fridays off, but it’s good to acknowledge that which I already knew. b5 is my “thing” right now, and I’m going to ride its wave all the way to the top.
After 1 week shy of a year without a real job title, I now have one: President, b5media. Craziness, eh?
The 100 Item To Do List
Jan 2nd
*sigh*
I love being off at Christmas. Well, I say that as if it’s normal. Truth is this is the first time I’d even vaguely taken Christmas off for more than 5 years. It was good. Refreshing. Very nice.
The problem is that I’m now back “at work”. That’s okay. I was actually looking forward to it. The problem is that I sat down to do a brain dump and get all the things that I had to do onto my todo list, and the list is more than 100 items long. 100 items! On an average day I’ll do 20-35 items, so with a list this long it’ll likely take me a week or two to get through it (I figure every day will have other new items to add to it).
*sigh*
Yay for Christmas. Boo for being overloaded.
