I'm speaking of it in the past tense, but I'm actually waiting for it to happen.
How can a nominally self-employed, gig-hungry critter like myself spend so much time sitting at her computer and so little of it actually accomplishing anything?
Today I'm having a fun adventure called "Fighting with the Content Management System." I'm a writer, dammit, not a CMSer... and my creaky old HTML skills are showing their age & infirmity.
In happier news, I got an $800 check from CK Media this week. Yay! Three and three-quarters* more of those and we will be GOL.DEN.
And in other happy news, Jim and I have a "date" this evening; we're going to a creative professionals networking event downtown. Free hors d'oeuvres and cheap wine for all, huzzah! I was really hoping to have some sort of functional web site URL and/or business card-like substance to pass out at this meeting, but no such luck. I have frittered away far too much of my time and it's just not happening.
Also: BrickFest was awesome. Hundreds of adult Lego fans get together for a weekend, build build build, then open up the Convention Center to display their creations to an adoring public. We liked. (All photos by James Newman.)
Look, it's Lego Portland!
Back up and take a look to figure out this mosaic...
A street scene
These modernist apartment buildings were like the coolest Lego constructions ever...
...except for maybe this suspension bridge (complete with river & boats underneath)...
...or this pool hall. (Jim has been inspired to create a Lego version of Billy Ray's Neighborhood Dive. AWESOME.)
An epic battle!
More Lego carnage around the Lego Tree of Life; also, Lego crops in Lego fields.
"Have fun storming the castle!"
This Lego roller coaster apparently really worked, though I didn't see it in action.
Lego massage chair
Lego heavy weaponry, incongruously touted by a small headbanded child.
Now we're looking forward to BrickCon in Seattle this October. With a vengeance!
*disclaimer: this may or may not actually be correct. math is hard.
