August 1998

+ Thursday - August 27, 1998

You know, I'm a pretty lucky guy. Sometimes the world can get ya down, and leave you feeling like there isn't all that much to get excited about. Then, somehow, your friends come through. Being 5 hours away from my best friends can be difficult, but I know they're always there, and always have me in the back of their minds. When I was in high school I thought that I'd never find better friends. I thought that when people say you meet life long friends in college they were all wrong. Well, I was the one who was wrong. I have so many cool friends, from so many different backgrounds and places. Erin Frank (one of those cool friends) once told me that I have so many great friends, and that can only mean one thing, that I'm a great friend back. It's reasons like that that make my friends so awesome, and me a lucky guy.

+ Wednesday - August 26, 1998

VitaVision is back on the air!! After reformatting my hard drive and reinstalling everything, I finally have the thing working properly. It is such a relief, but it's still gonna take me a few days to get my system up and running again like it once was. I'm just happy the thing is finally going on like it once was. There's a lot coming up at work and it would suck to have it be all stupid and such. I would never be able to get any work done. Oh, and for those of you who would like more web cam excitement at Imation Internet Studio, Scott V. has just set on up in his office. Check it out at www.tc.umn.edu/~vlam0003/webcam.html. Well, I'm off to get some rest tonight. Especially after last night at the Red Dragon with the guys from work. It was FPL celebration night for getting our job on that site finally done. We all had a great time, and James was nice enough to pay for it all. ;)

+ Tuesday - August 25, 1998

I really hate it when your computer works fine, and then suddenly one day things just go nuts and you can't do anything. Today my quick cam just decides to go AWOL and whenever I'm running it, it uses 99% of my CPU cycles. This is obviously bad, and I do not know how to fix this. Thus, VitaVision will be off the air for a while until it's done. What bothers me even more is that I'm the type of person who can't do ANYTHING until this damn thing is solved. So basically this just sucks. Well, at least a few people got to see me on it before it went to poop.

+ Sunday - August 23, 1998

I think I'm slowly getting the hang of what life in the real world is actually like. I've never been one to go out and show everyone all the things I can do or talk myself up, and I wonder if that is hurting me in the end. There's a lot I'd like to do and know, I just get confused at times with where to start, and what to do. I think the main reason is my fear of failure. When I do something and put a lot of time into it, I want it to be the best, and it's hard when people think that it sucks. This is especially true with graphic design where it's impossible to please everyone. This is why I don't tell people about the stuff I do, like this site, because I fear people won't think it's good, or that they'll just pass it by like so many other sites that get surfed through on the web. I just let people find it by themselves and let them make their own judgements. I wish I was better at selling myself like my friend Rob, who could probably talk an eskimo into buying and icebox, but perhaps that's just not how I work, and it could possibly be my biggest downfall.

+ Saturday - August 22, 1998

Gossip sorta sucks. Assuming things sucks too. Many people do it (ok, everyone) and usually it's harmless stuff, but every once and a while things go haywire and people get angry and mad. This just happened today involving my friend Bob and the TKE's and a certain relationship that wasn't happening (even though everyone thought it was). I guess that in the grand scheme it doesn't matter. People won't care about this in a month from now, but it sorta sucks to get the facts screwed up. Simple mistakes can really end up screwing you over.

+ Friday - August 21, 1998

Ahah! Well today is a day of big changes in the vitaflo.com department. There's a new person of the week, I added a page to the lab, and here is the new improved journal page. I'm hoping it's easy to use. Navigation is on the left, just click to read each day's journal. As for life, things are good. I got to go to a bar last night with Karla and Patrick, and tonight I'm going to a going away party for Mouser. I can't wait, it should be a good time. Things have obviously died down here, now that I'm done with the graphics for the FPL site, and there are still a few changes to be made to Imation.com's design before I jump into it. All in all, a productive day, at least for myself.

+ Thursday - August 20, 1998

This shit is fucked up. There is so much I want to do, and no time to do any of it in. Most of this is due to work. I've been working on this FPL site for a long time now, not as long as my officemate Jesse who has been bustin his ass, but enough. Now I have to start work on the graphics for the Imation.com redesign. FPL is small potatoes compared to Imation in terms of size. Then there's the vitaflo.com design I want to work on. There are so many things I'd like to do with this site, but it's gonna take sitting down and having time to do it, and I don't have that luxury. I suppose that's what happens when you're a computer geek.

+ Wednesday - August 19, 1998

Brent is biggity busy...still. So "Person of the Week" probably won't get updated till this weekend or so (sorry Phlappes). What sucks more is there's a lot I'd like to change here and, well, that won't seem to be happening anytime soon.

+ Monday - August 17, 1998

Real busy day today. Lots of work on graphic stuff (yay!). My whole day has been devoted to doing graphic work on this project, and figuring out what's going on with Clinton. Luckly I can listen to CNN over the web. Ahh, the wonder of modern technology.

+ Sunday - August 16, 1998

The people page will be updated soon, meaning Phlappes will be on the web in full glory. What will I say about Phlappes? Who will be on deck for next week? Will Bill Clinton testify truthfully? You'll probably just have to wait till tomorrow.

+ Saturday - August 15, 1998

I must be the most boring person in the world. Or maybe I'm just bored out of my mind. Perhaps that's why I'm sitting at work doing nothing.

+ Friday - August 14, 1998

Ah, Friday. One of those days that never comes too soon. Especially with a week like this. I've had a ton of stuff to do, but then again not. Not real work, just meeting after meeting and training, etc. I can't wait to sleep in tomorrow morning. The only reason I'm still here right now (5:30pm) is because I hate driving in traffic. I also hate paying for parking, especially when I'm broke. I probably should find some way to make some extra $$. What's sad is that this paragraph is written with as much creativity as I have in my system right now. I just need a cold beer.

+ Wednesday - August 12, 1998

Yeah, yeah, yeah. One complaint I've been getting about this site is that there isn't much on it, that "you didn't include me in a picture of this, that, etc", and "when am *I* gonna be the person of the week?" Well, yes, the site is new, and there needs to be some more content created. But all that comes with time. I mean if I had everything up here right now, how often would you come back? ;) And yes, you will see new things added, different designs on pages (I don't much like the design of this page for example, but it's easy), and all of that. As for when YOU will be the person of the week, well, since I don't decide that until I actually go in and change the code, I don't even know who the next person will be. But it will be random, and you will have no idea who it will be from week to week (hmmm..maybe I should have people guess who it's gonna be, and have cool prizes for guessing right, comments?). So have fun, be patient, and if ya wanna see something or have a suggestion, please let me know. This site is yours almost as much as it is mine...almost. ;)

+ Tuesday - August 11, 1998

Why can't life be more like Animal House? Running around in Toga's, drinking excessive amounts of beer, and throwing barrels out of house windows seems like the only way to go.

+ Monday - August 10, 1998

Well, it's August 10 and it's the official launch date of vitaflo.com. Here on the journal page is where you'll find all sorts of crap I feel like writing about, updated on a day-to-day basis. But instead of wasting your time with useless jabber today, check out the rest of the site. As always, the site is a work in progress, and represents just a taste of more to come.