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Man, Dyson is genius. How fun of a project would this be to work on? I got to use the air blade last week on a business trip. During some free time my website developer, Ben and I went to the St. Louis Arch and the bathroom there has the super fast, 400mph wind, hand dryer. It was cool. If I got a bladeless fan, I would probably try to teach my children how to jump through it! HA!

I never knew that e.e. cummings was funny. I remember reading his poetry back in school and my only true memory is that it was boring, end of story. But, today, while reading a business book I read a short poem by him and it made me laugh:

… my Uncle Sol had a skunk farm but the skunks caught cold and died and so my Uncle Sol imitated the skunks in a subtle manner …

I know some Uncle Sol’s, I just spent 3 days climbing a mountain with 4 of them. You know who you are! I’ll post pictures of our adventure soon.

Last summer I sold my car and walked everywhere. The business was in a good state and it allowed me to be fairly flexible, when I had a meeting and they weren’t coming to our office, I was usually able to schedule it in a way that I could borrow my wife’s car.

Summer turned into fall and I was still walking, fall into winter … still walking. I was walking in Tacoma, up and down hills an average of 15 miles a week. It was good exercise, but got old when it start to rain all the time.

Why did I do this? Because, throughout that whole time, one of my best friends, Joe Undziakiewicz, was building me what my children call “my racecar”. You see, last summer I bought an Infiniti J-30 off craigslist for $300. The car doesn’t look like anything from the outside, I’ve heard people refer to it as a sleeper. I bought it because Joe had a vision of placing a really fun (replace fun with so fast it will rip your face off) engine into that car.

I say all of this for two reasons, some of my clients have wanted to go for rides in my “racecar” and the second is, Joe is a genius who has just started his own company fixing cars at 60% less than dealerships. At one point last winter, my garage had the engine we ordered from Japan in about 30 pieces and the original engine Joe had taken out of the car in about 30 pieces. He was the most organized and professional mechanic and it was a picture of who Joe is. Meticulous, professional, detail-oriented to a level only OCD could explain. Nobody but Joe will ever touch my cars. Some of the horror stories of dealership “stunts” and “mishaps” make me fear for taking my car anywhere else.

If your car needs help, call Joe the neighborhood mechanic.com

Darius Rucker, it’s been a long time.

Do you remember when Hootie and the Blowfish could do no wrong? I remember their CD was the first one I purchased when I started driving and since I didn’t have a ton of money, it stayed in my stereo for a very, very long time. It stayed in there so long that it got really old, but then, when I persevered through that lull, it became the greatest CD ever known to man! HA!

But that’s not why I’m wring this, I’m writing to let you know that according to my 6 and a half year old daughter’s blog (evahpearl.com) I am not very good at teaching antelopes how to stand on their hind legs. She’s right, I can’t even teach my dog how to stand on it’s hind legs, I am in need of some animal training help, anyone out there know how to do this?

Today is my birthday! That’s pretty much all I’ll say about that. In other news, Ben and I have been working all week on a big Ainsworth Studio project. We placed the final touches on it yesterday and will launch it early next week. Keep us in mind if you’re looking for a great website or graphic design.
Also, a bunch of my friends are returning from a trip they took to South Africa. They went down to help a group in the slums of Capetown about two weeks ago, I’m excited to hear their stories.
And finally, Jason Boisture, a good friend of Ainsworth Studio is getting married tomorrow. He is the greatest copy writer and Search Engine Optimizer I know, honestly, the man’s a genius.

For your reading and linking pleasure, I found an article regarding taking a cruise on a freightliner. Apparently it is far cheaper than a cruise on a cruise ship. Probably because it’s the most boring thing you’ve ever done in your life, but hey, you can save some money! I’ve never been on a cruise but have always wanted to go on one. I can tell you this, I cannot imagine cruising on a freightliner would ever be fun but maybe this website and this article can convince you that it could be?

I went out to look at the amazing meteor shower last night, but, it was raining here. I just saw that there’s supposed to be a much larger meteor shower tonight and the sky is looking pretty clear currently so, finger’s crossed, maybe I’ll get to see it.

I remember about 10 years ago laying out in the deserts of western washington watching the meteor shower. It was spectacular because there were none of the lights of the city to deal with. As a graphic designer, I’m always looking for ways to be inspired and because I am amazed by the universe and am such a nerd, I usually look at boston.com/bigpicture for space photographs. These pictures of the sun are probably the most intriguing photographs i’ve ever seen. It blows my mind that is what the sun’s surface looks like.