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How to make your commercial suck.

These rules are definitely NOT stuck to Mid-MO. 90% of the local commercials here suck JUST as much, they’re just usually shot using more expensive cameras.

Important Rules for Local Commercials:

10. MAKE YOUR LOGO REALLY BIG. You paid your sister’s boyfriend $50 for that snappy JPEG logo, make sure you really make your brand stand out by making sure everyone can see it!

9. DO NOT HIRE A POST-PRODUCTION TEAM. The professionals are fancy people with fancy computers, running fancy software. What does all that mean for you = $. You can do this yourself, or better yet you can have your cousin’s step-brother do it for you for free. He owes you one anyway, from that time you bailed him out of jail and didn’t tell your cousin’s parents.

8. DO NOT CREATE STORYBOARDS OR A SHOT LIST. You’ll figure it out as you go, and then your commercial will feel more “real.” Anything that is mistakenly missing or accidentally included, can be easily and realistically added or removed in post-production.

7. DO NOT HIRE ACTORS, you don’t know them, they have to be taught about your company, and will want to be paid. You can use your own staff, or even better, the head of the company. He REALLY knows what you’re all about. For extras, use friends, family members, and especially your children… they’ll be excited because they get to be on TV. If filming in your business, and it is a store, make sure to fill it up with people so it looks really busy.

6. POINT & USE VISUAL AIDS WHENEVER POSSIBLE remember that you really need to make people understand who you are and what you are trying to say. Do you think they just listen to their TVs because they are watching them? No. You need to point at or show some sort of example for every single thing you talk about. Hint 1: A great way to achieve this is to have words appear on the screen and then point at them.

5. DO NOT RENT A LOCATION. Do it outside of your business. This will save money AND give you a chance to showcase the building logos, and signs you’ve paid so much money for.

4. TALK AS QUICKLY AS YOU CAN. Ad space is expensive and you have to fit a lot in your commercial. It is not important to showcase one thing you do really well. Rather you should try to say as many things, or sell as many products and services as you can. Remember: this is your chance to come into peoples homes and tell them what you’re about.

3. DO NOT RENT A CAMERA, MICS, OR HIRE A FILM CREW. Tapes from a HandyCam can just as easily be imported into a computer as the fancy ones the professionals use, and anyone with eyes can take a picture. Making a video is just taking a bunch of pictures over and over. You’re making a commercial here, not producing a cinematic masterpiece.

2. DO NOT HIRE SOUND PEOPLE. Local commercials should sound fuzzy and be barely audible. It is part of their charm. That buzzing sound when people get really loud is normal, and even a plus for you as it will make people pay attention to their TVs.

1. ABOVE ALL, SPEND AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE. Remember, the number one goal of a commercial is to get your name out into the world as quickly as possible. Don’t worry, it doesn’t represent your brand or have the ability to change the perception of your companies image in any way.

Thank you,
Brett Patrick Casey :o)

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Headaches & Frustration & Sondheim

“Look what a little Catholic rebellion will lead to… Paul would kiss me and I would think: Oh! I’ve got my very own Jew!” -from Company

I’m writing this from my old MacBook Pro that Harold now uses.

On Sunday we saw “A Little Night Music” in Evanston at Light Opera Works. Like the last Light Opera Works show we saw, this one was also fantastic. If you haven’t seen “A Little Night Music” and like clever, funny, sophisticated, and musically complex shows, I think you’ll like it.

I stayed home from work Yesterday, which I rarely do. I had (and continue to have) such a terrible sinus headache, that I can barely stand the thought of moving. I spent most of the day on the couch. Yesterday morning I was still able to sleep so I slept until about 10, then woke up and watched movies all day. He’s Just Not That Into You, then The Breakup and then switched to a couple of Sondheim musicals while slicing up the new design for this website. (Hopefully you’ll like it, I do)

I upgraded to the newest version of WordPress and got about halfway done converting the Photoshop file into HTML & CSS before stopping to quickly set up the backup disks on our new Airport Extreme to function as drives for Time Machine. I couldn’t get this to work so I decided I would run the firmware update on the router. This opened up ‘Software Update’ which kept locking up around 20% into checking for software… not downloading it… just checking for it. I noticed earlier in the day that any new files I created were not coming up as searchable in Spotlight…. I decided a restart was definitely in order, maybe it would fix all of these little issues. It didn’t. I restarted and my computer got stuck on the gray apple with the spinning spokes screen. About 20 minutes later I shut it down, cleared the PRAM, and as of yet have not been able to get it boot back into OS X.

Harold ran the firmware update on the router which then had to restart itself. He didn’t realize that I was watching something on Netflix on TiVo. Having lots its connection during internet play, TiVo locked up. Upon restart, the audio track for the movie I was watching loaded about 1 second before whatever was happening on screen. It was about then that I lost it.

I decided I must leave the house. I needed to go see the pretty lights of downtown, take in a little bit of night air, and get out of the house and away from all the non-functioning electronics. While out, I stopped by the Bad Times Burger King for a diet Coke. Naturally, they gave me regular and I had to go back through the line to exchange it. We returned home and I checked one more time to make sure my computer still wouldn’t start up, took some pills as instructed by Harold, and the moment my headache went away was finally able to go to sleep around midnight.

The medicine must have worn off around 2pm, b/c that’s when I woke up. The busy noises of Irving Park (we live on a pretty major road) which usually are my comforting friends who help me sleep, are now my enemies. Its no matter though, with my two hours of sleep I’m now wide awake.

I would work on my website some more, but I can’t get to the files. How I wish I had thrown them on a network drive. I decided to put on Stephen Sondheim’s ‘Company’ on Netflix on TiVo (which Harold was able to fix) and try some more things on my computer

I’m pretty sure the hard disk on my new computer may have failed. In addition to not booting to the hard disk, my brand new 17″ MacBook Pro also will not boot to the TechTool Deluxe CD. I was finally able to get it to boot to the Mac OS X Leopard install disc. It ran through normal setup procedures (you know, it checked the CD and everything) and when it finally tried to install the operating system to the hard disk…. I got this fantastic “Install Failed’ screen. I’ve been through this before on my old PowerBook G4. Basically these are the same events that happened when its hard drive failed.

I’m pretty sure I’ve lost all of the work I did on my website yesterday, which totally sucks. I noticed that if I hold T while starting up, it will boot into transfer mode, so I thought perhaps it might be worth a shot to see if I can pull the files off of it that way, however I don’t have a FireWire 800 cable, and the new MacBook Pro does not have a FireWire 600 cable. My guess is that it doesn’tmatter though, if the Hard Disk really has failed, I’m sure it wouldn’t actually work.

On the plus side, after trying for about 10 seconds on this computer, I was able to get it to see the network drives for Time Machine Backup. Yay! The other positive here is that I haven’t had the computer for very long. The only files I don’t have on this computer are a few Musicals I downloaded since I got that comptuer and those website files. Who knows, maybe I’ll hit an odd spur of luck and actually be able to get them!

Additionally, on Friday the blower motor for my cars A/C stopped working. I found out it I didn’t have to drive to Mid-Missouri and that it could be fixed here in Chicago so I made an appointment. It promptly started working again, and has not stopped since. I figured they probably couldn’t fix it if they couldn’t see how it was broken, so hopefully if this issue decides to manifest again, it will happen sometime during the next 6,000 miles… because after than my warranty runs out and then it would be expensive to fix.

Well, that’s all for now. Wish me luck!

Brett Patrick Casey :o)

So busy…

For a person who never seems to have anything to do, I’m so busy lately. I haven’t posted any new work in quite a while, and I feel like I really can’t debut new designs for the network on my blog, but here’s a tiny sneek peek of a storyboard for a video loop I’ve been working on this week.

Soon to be seen on screens in food courts in malls all across the country? You know, after revisions and stuff… I dunno… we’ll see.

Brett Patrick Casey :o)

Site Upgrades.

So my site is currently undergoing some upgrades.

A re-design is on the way, as mentioned before, and I think its going to be nice. I’ve laid it out using CSS into a regular old HTML file, but haven’t yet chopped it up for a WordPress theme (that’s a very large part of the project)

Other upgrades:
1. WordPress has been upgraded to the latest version.
2. I’m converting all photo galleries over to NextGen Gallery, using the plug-in. (You can already see some of this work being done on some of the photo pages)
3. I’m going to be adding a twitter feed, using a plugin.
4. I’m thinking that different parts of the site will have slightly different sidebars (if I can figure out the php to make that happen the way I want it to) and that there will be a “design” section, as well as a regular section. This section would display only posts relating to design, and instead of the regular sidebar, it will feature links to favorite design blogs, interesting design resources, etc.

So yeah, I apologize if everything isn’t working in tip-top shape.

Now if I can only figure out how to make Google stop thinking I’m an attack site! Apparently it doesn’t care for the fact that my site has other sites on it, that aren’t linked to the main one. Um, duh. Its a web server, I use it for all of my development sites, etc. That’s about irritating google, let me tell you.

Things with Harold are fantastic, as always. Work is going really well too. I hope to have a chance to snap some photos of some of the print work I’ve been doing there (I probably can’t include any of the video work I’ve been involved in) and get it up into the “work” section, so you kind scan see what I’ve been up to.

Well, that’s all for tonight, I’m hella tired and my cute boyfriend is waiting to be cuddled with.

Goodnight!
Brett Patrick Casey :o)

Gordon Matta-Clark at MCA.

Today Wesley and I ventured into the city with two specific missions in mind: to visit Luxe Home (which really reminded me why I want to be an interior designer) at the Merchandise Mart (b/c I decided Wesley needed to see it) and to visit the Museum of Contemporary Art (because Tuesday is the free day… apparently brought to us by Target) The largest exhibit space contained the work of one mister Gordon Matta-Clark.

From Wikipedia: He is most famous for works that radically altered existing structures. His “building cuts” (in which, for example, a house is cut in half vertically) alter the perception of the building and its surrounding environment.

There were quite a lot of really cool pieces. My favorite consisted of three pieces of an exterior wall of a house, all cut to the same height and width, however they weren’t consecutive pieces… they contained different parts. The wall is presented with the exterior of the house showing first, as you walk around it… you view the inside (shown below in another gallery)

Though some were done legally, a large number of his “building cuts” were done illegally in abandoned buildings in boroughs of New York City. He actually had (from what I read on the wall) at least 1 warrant out for his arrest, though I would imagine that there were more. The way he cut the buildings (inside of them) was especially deliberate. He didn’t just cut them anywhere, he cut them in places that would open up the space in some way and allow it to be seen differently.

Many of the abandoned buildings that he altered were demolished, and to document we are left with photographs (which was largely what the exhibit consisted of) as well as some of the pieces he actually removed. Though it was quite cool to look at the pieces, the overall point in most cases had to be understood through the photograph. (To me anyway–if you’re altering space, the piece you removed won’t tell you quite as much about it as the result after it was removed.)

All in all, it was quite an interesting, cool, and very fun Chicago day. Days like this remind me why I love this city so much. For anyone interested and in Chicago, his exhibit runs through May 4. There were also quite a few other cool exhibits that you can learn about at The Museum of Contemporary Art website.

In other news:

No news on the job front yet.
I got to hang out with Brandon B. today, he was in for work as per his usual for Tuesday nights. Normally I can’t hang out during the small window of time he has in which to hang out, because I have to pick Wesley up in Aurora during those times. However, today Wesley was off, so it finally worked out. Even though I was quite tired, I treked back into the city for a visit. It was quite fun, and very good to see him.

Well, I should attempt to sleep I suppose…
Brett Patrick Casey :o)

They’re High.

Jefferson City is such a moronic place.

I’m going to start with a quote that has stuck with me very strongly ever since I first saw it.

“I’m an architect in a city with no architecture…”
– Jorge Garcia, Mexico, Dwell, Oct/Nov 2005.

Depending on how you look at it, this is either horrible, or wonderful. The fact that the city has none leaves it open for lots, however… why might a city not have any architecture? Lack of funding, lack of interest, lack of development, all of the above? It tends to lean more toward the horrible in my opinion.

I really feel for this architect in a way. I’m a designer, in a city completely unconcerned with aesthetics. What’s worse is, the better I get– and I’m always trying to become better, the less necessary I seem. Also the less interested people seem in my services. Here, even my current level of design is superfluous. No one wants it, no one needs it, and sure as hell no one is willing to pay for it.

In most places, especially in America, consumers are driven toward more upscale things. Our peers and parents and experiences teach us to want to better ourselves, its the American way… right? Unfortunately for me, Jefferson City and most of Mid-Missouri (on the whole) is perfectly content being a giant shithole of ugly.

Brand image means almost nothing here, unless your brand is McDonalds. Actually, that isn’t true… Brand image is important here. Its important that you don’t let your brand image get too good… WHY could that POSSIBLY ever be a PROBLEM? Well, here… especially in Jefferson City, its a huge drawback. If people think your business is nice, they automatically decide it’s too expensive, and therefore will ignore it completely. Never mind your greatly superior customer experience, ambiance, product, and overall customer satisfaction. Why the hell would those things matter if you’re not SELLING your product for the ABSOLUTE LOWEST PRICE.

I once asked my mom about why the buildings here were all so terribly ugly… even the brand new ones are made so cheaply. I noted that in other places we frequently go, in Wisc. or wherever, the strip malls are ALL really varied and nice looking. They’re built with quality materials (not EVER stucco!) and they attract interesting and cool businesses, and customers. She pointed out that if developers did that here, no one would go to their strip-malls…. or shop in their stores. She’s right, they wouldn’t.
I told her that I didn’t want to have to look at that ugly cheap crap, and shop at stupid stores, and drive by their ugly “architecture” daily. “They’re not trying to attract your business, they’re trying to attract the business of the people in this town…. they don’t want you!” She’s right. They don’t.

Its Wal-Mart culture, and I hate it. You buy crap, you treat it like crap, it wears exactly as you would expect crap to, and then you throw it out and replace it with more junky crap. Don’t save your money and buy a nice set of pots and pans and take care of it, and use it for 25 years… buy Wal-Mart… tear the shit out of it, and replace it once a year… yeah, that’s MUCH better.

When I worked at Cole County Residential Services, I was constantly annoyed by one thing, (actually by many things, but only one in particular relevant to this story) the fact that most of the staff people, when refering to a product or store, would say: “They’re high.” or “That’s high.” in liu of “That’s expensive.” This always drove me crazy… aside from the fact that its vague, and the syntax of the English language has been completely thrown out the window, (much like the writing in my journal entries) It was also just a constant reminder of that CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP thing, which I hate so much.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for saving money. I’m just never for saving money at the cost of quality, or experience, or service, or durabilty, or any of the other countless things that always buying the cheapest item or service can exclude.

The point of all this… I’m a square peg, trying to fit into a round hole. I don’t belong here. I’m incredibly unhappy. I haven’t felt like myself for months, and it gets worse all the time. If I have to live in this area, where the conscentration of this terrible attitude toward quality is so great, I don’t see myself ever being happy. However, I feel incredibly trapped. Financially, I’m completely unable to get the fuck out of here. If I have to live here, in this terrible place, and I can’t ever get out, I don’t see the point in living. Living here isn’t living. Challenges and culture, experiencing new things, taking risks—failing! That’s living. I used to have that. And I miss it. And I want it back. I don’t want to live, if I have to live here. THIS is unacceptable.

This is a WHOLE other lecture, and I won’t discuss in great length today but, another quote I’m fond of:

“I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do,” Mr. [Frank] Gehry says. “Architects have to become parental. They have to learn to be parental.” By this he means that an architect has to listen to his client but also remain firm about what the architect knows best, the aesthetics of a building. This, Mr. Gehry says, is what makes an architect relevant in the process that leads to a completed building. “I think a lot of my colleagues lose it, lose that relevance in the spirit of serving their client, so that no matter what, they are serving the client. Even if the building they produce, that they think serves the client, doesn’t really serve the client because it’s not very good.

-Wall Street Journal

Again. Dead on. Why hire someone to make your project creative, when that isn’t what you’re really looking for? I’ve run into this again and again in the past. (Though less lately… most of the time the projects I work on as of late, are mostly about letting me do my own thing… MOSTLY… which believe me, turns out better for everyone involved.) Just like he says: What a disservice I’m doing for a client to let them take over and give them a compromised product that is low quality.

Well, that’s all the bitching for tonight.
Brett Patrick Casey :o)

They’re High.

Jefferson City is such a moronic place.

I’m going to start with a quote that has stuck with me very strongly ever since I first saw it.

“I’m an architect in a city with no architecture…”
– Jorge Garcia, Mexico, Dwell, Oct/Nov 2005.

Depending on how you look at it, this is either horrible, or wonderful. The fact that the city has none leaves it open for lots, however… why might a city not have any architecture? Lack of funding, lack of interest, lack of development, all of the above? It tends to lean more toward the horrible in my opinion.

I really feel for this architect in a way. I’m a designer, in a city completely unconcerned with aesthetics. What’s worse is, the better I get– and I’m always trying to become better, the less necessary I seem. Also the less interested people seem in my services. Here, even my current level of design is superfluous. No one wants it, no one needs it, and sure as hell no one is willing to pay for it.

In most places, especially in America, consumers are driven toward more upscale things. Our peers and parents and experiences teach us to want to better ourselves, its the American way… right? Unfortunately for me, Jefferson City and most of Mid-Missouri (on the whole) is perfectly content being a giant shithole of ugly.

Brand image means almost nothing here, unless your brand is McDonalds. Actually, that isn’t true… Brand image is important here. Its important that you don’t let your brand image get too good… WHY could that POSSIBLY ever be a PROBLEM? Well, here… especially in Jefferson City, its a huge drawback. If people think your business is nice, they automatically decide it’s too expensive, and therefore will ignore it completely. Never mind your greatly superior customer experience, ambiance, product, and overall customer satisfaction. Why the hell would those things matter if you’re not SELLING your product for the ABSOLUTE LOWEST PRICE.

I once asked my mom about why the buildings here were all so terribly ugly… even the brand new ones are made so cheaply. I noted that in other places we frequently go, in Wisc. or wherever, the strip malls are ALL really varied and nice looking. They’re built with quality materials (not EVER stucco!) and they attract interesting and cool businesses, and customers. She pointed out that if developers did that here, no one would go to their strip-malls…. or shop in their stores. She’s right, they wouldn’t.
I told her that I didn’t want to have to look at that ugly cheap crap, and shop at stupid stores, and drive by their ugly “architecture” daily. “They’re not trying to attract your business, they’re trying to attract the business of the people in this town…. they don’t want you!” She’s right. They don’t.

Its Wal-Mart culture, and I hate it. You buy crap, you treat it like crap, it wears exactly as you would expect crap to, and then you throw it out and replace it with more junky crap. Don’t save your money and buy a nice set of pots and pans and take care of it, and use it for 25 years… buy Wal-Mart… tear the shit out of it, and replace it once a year… yeah, that’s MUCH better.

When I worked at Cole County Residential Services, I was constantly annoyed by one thing, (actually by many things, but only one in particular relevant to this story) the fact that most of the staff people, when refering to a product or store, would say: “They’re high.” or “That’s high.” in liu of “That’s expensive.” This always drove me crazy… aside from the fact that its vague, and the syntax of the English language has been completely thrown out the window, (much like the writing in my journal entries) It was also just a constant reminder of that CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP thing, which I hate so much.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for saving money. I’m just never for saving money at the cost of quality, or experience, or service, or durabilty, or any of the other countless things that always buying the cheapest item or service can exclude.

The point of all this… I’m a square peg, trying to fit into a round hole. I don’t belong here. I’m incredibly unhappy. I haven’t felt like myself for months, and it gets worse all the time. If I have to live in this area, where the conscentration of this terrible attitude toward quality is so great, I don’t see myself ever being happy. However, I feel incredibly trapped. Financially, I’m completely unable to get the fuck out of here. If I have to live here, in this terrible place, and I can’t ever get out, I don’t see the point in living. Living here isn’t living. Challenges and culture, experiencing new things, taking risks—failing! That’s living. I used to have that. And I miss it. And I want it back. I don’t want to live, if I have to live here. THIS is unacceptable.

This is a WHOLE other lecture, and I won’t discuss in great length today but, another quote I’m fond of:

“I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do,” Mr. [Frank] Gehry says. “Architects have to become parental. They have to learn to be parental.” By this he means that an architect has to listen to his client but also remain firm about what the architect knows best, the aesthetics of a building. This, Mr. Gehry says, is what makes an architect relevant in the process that leads to a completed building. “I think a lot of my colleagues lose it, lose that relevance in the spirit of serving their client, so that no matter what, they are serving the client. Even if the building they produce, that they think serves the client, doesn’t really serve the client because it’s not very good.

-Wall Street Journal

Again. Dead on. Why hire someone to make your project creative, when that isn’t what you’re really looking for? I’ve run into this again and again in the past. (Though less lately… most of the time the projects I work on as of late, are mostly about letting me do my own thing… MOSTLY… which believe me, turns out better for everyone involved.) Just like he says: What a disservice I’m doing for a client to let them take over and give them a compromised product that is low quality.

Well, that’s all the bitching for tonight.
Brett Patrick Casey :o)

Two New Posters.

The SoCo Club and Malibu Rum Present Kansas City Pride 2007 Benefit Show & The SoCo Club Presents Mid-Missouri PrideFest 2007 Benefit Show.

The first poster I designed yesterday. I set out to create something out of my normal range of print work. I achieved this with the distressed looking ‘paper’ and custom made text for certain parts of the poster.

The second I designed today and its supposed to look like vellum sitting over a patterned background. I created the background pattern in Illustrator and most of the rest was created in Photoshop.

Of course, all work is brought together in Adobe InDesign.

I’m happy today. Yay.
Brett Patrick Casey :o)

…or better yet, I’ll wear shades on sunless days, and when the sun’s out I’ll stay in and slumber…

For those of you who read my site reguarly, and have been wondering what’s been going on with him ,or why you haven’t seen him lately. You can keep up with him by checking out his blogspot available, as always, on the blogroll. A trackback to a recent post of his regarding that is here. I say to him, as always, that I miss him and hope he’s doing well.

I’m here for you if you need me, kiddo.

Today I painted. Well, I did more than paint.

As I metioned yesterday, because of the new furniture that will be coming (they went ahead and ordered the rest today) the yellow in the living room must go. Though we have seven weeks… we apparently decided that it must go sooner rather than later. We picked a few colors and I went to Lowe’s to get some “Auditions” which are simply the little half quart paint cans that they sell… only they’re “Samples” which they call “Auditions” and they’re $3.00 each.

So I painted little squares all over the walls in different places so that we could see how each color looked in each area of the room, based on relationship to light conditions and sources.

After they dried, we discussed each… walked around looking at them several times. (We had one in my parents room which still has white walls (but not for long) so that we could see what they look like NOT in a room where everything has a yellow tint to it because of the vibrant wall color.)

We decided one one called Eiffel Tower. (Which actually was our original choice from last night.) Its very gray, with a hint of brown. My parents decided to put the bluer of the colors “Volcanic Ash” in their bedroom. (Pictures of that when it happens, I’m sure.)

I began covering up most of the sample squares with what I had left from the “Auditions” can for Eiffel Tower and actually got through cutting in half of the hallway and painting several large spots, eventually filling up entire wall areas on smaller walls in the living room. I went to buy all the paint, which ended up being on sale this weekend… well, kind of. We get an $80 rebate on the 16 cans we ended up buying. So hooray for that.

When I returned, I started the ceiling in the hallway, and since I couldn’t move any further into the living room without my second and very much dreaded trip to Wal-Mart this year. (Lowe’s was now closed, and where else would I get a plastic dropcloth?…. and windshield washer fluid?) I moved on to the walls.

So far, they are coming along pretty nicely. All of us are really happy with the color, though Michelle when she was over for a while did call it purple. Anyone who knows my mother knows how she would react to this, and she reacted exactly as one would have expected. She hates purple, and she said so. Then she declared the color as brown and gray. All of the yellow reflecting on it still does make it seem a little purple though. I’m not worried, however, becasue the spot in the white room looks very not purple at all.

Apparently my rolling the walls before going to wal-mart was a bad idea though because it was so humid that when I returned to start cutting in some of the edges, the underside of the paint was still wet and started to rub off. This of course concerned me greatly, and I asked Dad about 4 times if he was SURE that the yellow wasn’t oil based paint. (If it were, it would all come off in nice little latex sheets and strips whenever touched after fully dry, and that would piss me off… plus its kind of a huge mess to clean up.) He assured me that it wasn’t. Four times. After figuring out what was really going on, I quit for the day to let the walls dry properly before I cut the edges in. I’m off tomorrow so I suppose I’ll pick it back up then. I think I’ll cut the rest of the edges in first.

I very much like how this color seems to be unifying our current color scheme in a way that the yellow (since it was so much different than the color I’d picked originally) never did. I think the rooms are going to feel a lot more connected now, whereas before it was sort of compartmentalized feeling. My mother agrees.

Well, that’s all for now. Even though its 2am, I must go to the bank and deposit a check into the ATM so that it goes through in the AM before any transactions from the later part of last week try to.

That’s all.
Brett Patrick Casey :o)