St. Louis better pack a big lunch.

Away game tomorrow, night-game in St. Louis.  Team flies out at 11:40am L.A. time, game is at 8:30pm in the Lou.

Thanks ahead of time to all the mid-west (and east coast!) supporters that are coming to the game, I hope everyone will enjoy.  The way were are looking right now, St. Louis is in for a tough night (barring weather conditions).   Our forwards are ridonkulously mobile right now, our loose-head prop Adam Guerra is playing like an absolute maniac right now, best prop in the country at this moment.  He’s super-fit, healthy, he’s got that “warren-sapp-i’m-huge-but-still-fast” thing going for him, and his ball skills are out of nowhere.

And that’s just one guy - that style of play is contagious in the team right now.  Can’t wait.

Joe Kilifer, Switzerland (almost), Coach Sovers

So Joe Kilifer, Nathan Jones, and I were in a place that looked sort of like Switzerland, but wasn’t because I kept talking about how much it reminded me of Switzerland.  In fact it looked a lot like Bjork’s new video, Wanderlust.

Then Coach Sovers and the track team showed up, because we had a meet.  But I needed to get train tickets, but was in the wrong place and kept forgetting to get them, and I was in a panic about it, but at the same time didn’t really care.  Sovs was happy to see me, and the team had new orange uniforms, which were ugly.  Especially since they were on a yellow bus.  But I didn’t say anything.

So Joe and I (Nathan disappeared) just kept hanging out.  We were amazed by something.

Too bad I only dream like once every 4 months.  I love dreams.

Midnight Oil

Yesterday, the accountant at Blur asked me how many cups of coffee I drink per day…

“um… 5 at work plus Starbucks in the evening?”

At which point, I realized maybe that is a lot of coffee.   But. Moderation Shmoderation.  I wake up around 8 every day (try to) and I leave the house by 9, and generally don’t get home till past 10pm after rugby, gym, whatever else is involved that day.  Busy bee, but I’ve got to get it all out now while I can!

Last night, I fell asleep right in the middle of breaking my site (which maybe you noticed) and knocked my laptop off the bed… brilliant moment in my life.

Do not pity me, for I love every second of it.  Just thought my moment of realization was entertaining.

Happy Clients

Just finishing up my booking over here at Blur Studio this week - last Friday we delivered a huge package for the Kids’ Choice Awards (which aired this weekend) and got this note in my inbox from the client via our Creative Director:

“Thanks for all the work on KCA….when we were looking at the open in the production office, the head person at NICK that we deal with, Marjorie Cohen, just calmly turned around and said ‘These grafix are gorgeous.’
They were great, you guys set a high standard for yourself.
The show got the highest ratings ever — wow that’s 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and now 2008 that we have done that…..and the teen #s went up too!”

Big Win over OMBAC

This weekend we had a big, very important win over 2006 U.S. Super League champs OMBAC (based in San Diego).  The win is considered an “upset” (whatever that means,  in rugby it’s anybodys game - every game).  Right now that puts us 1 point behind Denver (9pts to 8 - they must have earned an extra bonus point along the way, both teams are 2-0) and more-or-less the same ranking nation-wide, as the Red Conference (ours.. ‘the west’) is typically the premier conference.

Next weekend we travel to St. Louis to face the Bombers, which hopefully will be a great opportunity to polish our skills and make a good one for the crowd, which should be electric.

The Internet Officially Has Everything

I knew someday it would happen.

Someone has compiled a list of seven places to check out if you ever go to Iowa — and somehow, some way, I haven’t been to ANY of them.  Granted, it’s a damn fine list.
How is that possible?  They must all be in northwestern Iowa.  Nothing out there but corn and meth.

That’s the Spirit!

From The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (via Hacker News):

“…it seemed as though all I could see was a lot of bright young men in grey flannel suits rushing around New York in a frantic parade to nowhere. They seemed to me to be pursuing neither ideals nor happiness — they were pursuing a routine. For a long while I thought I was on the side lines watching the parade, and it was quite a shock to glance down and see that I too was wearing a grey flannel suit.”

Very proud to love what I do for a living, to be 25 and being in a place where I am both very happy and also excited about the future gives me warm fuzzies sometimes.

Power Move begets Power Move

I’ve experienced it many times in my life - the phenomenon of productivity snowballing on itself. There’s the day that you wake up (or for me, the night that you lay there for hours and hours) and think “wow, in my infinite quest to ‘do big things’, I’ve become static.”

So what comes next? Say it with me now, “Power Move!”. The only way out of complacency is a nice solid power move. An instant, sizable change that can be measured. So you make your power move (for me it was heading down to Miami for the conference) and guess what happens next?

Another power move.

And another one.

And another one.

Productivity and ascent are viral. I’m just wrapping up one big thing and last night I started on something I’ve been wanting to do for (well, years) and made some great progress, which I will be sharing soon.

So what are you waiting for?

Seattle Gets Starbucked

Like that headline?

We whooped Seattle, a very non-reflective score of 18-16 for how the game felt to me on the field. Good night out with the boys after the game, I’m very lucky to have so many great friends in my life.

That is all for now.

Web browsers? Yeah, that was an Iowan.

Fact of the day:  Marc Andreessen, who was a co-founder of Netscape and is credited with creating the first widely-used web browser (called Mosaic) was (not suprisingly*) BORN IN IOWA.

*at least not to those of us who are loyalists