Spade Photography update: I made a banner for the homepage today. I made three or four incarnations of it and uploaded the one that I liked the best. What do you think? Are the bones overkill? Should we look for a new font for the logo?

I’m sort of going with green as the color scheme for the site. I feel like the bones in the banner look different than the ones in the background image. I have a few more ideas on what the banner could look like, this is just the first that I created. Shall I make the buttons or move onto idea number two for the banner?

I will marry anyone who has a Doom Gen and Power Mac G5 poster on the same wall.

We are living in the age of the thing.

(UPDATE: 1/9/05. Here are the full lyrics:

Greetings, citizens.
We are living in the age
In which the pursuit of all values
Other than
Money, success, fame, glamour
Has either been discredited or destroyed
Money, success, fame, glamour
For we are living in the age of the thing)

Just when I was shifting my packing into high gear, Brian called and told me that there is a big mudslide on Highway 101. I would go the other way (I-5), but there’s going to be snow on the pass and I’ve never driven in snow before. I’m hoping that they will clear the mudslide on 101 by Friday, but if it doesn’t me and Kelly’s super fun weekend might get cut short.

I mean, it’s not like I mind spending the weekend with Brian, but that wasn’t the point of the trip. I just have to cross my fingers and hope that the slide will be gone by tomorrow.

I discovered something wonderful while I was on the Caltrans web site! They have live traffic cameras of Sacramento. I am watching it right now and it is absolutely mesmerizing. Kelly could be one of those people driving! It’s totally impossible, as we never go on I-5 when I’m down there, but it’s an entertaining diversion. And to think, when I was driving by that camera months ago someone could have been watching me!

I love technology.

I need to finish the last two chapters in my math book before I take my placement test, and I have been having a very hard time motivating myself to do it. What I need to do is take my gigantic monitor off my desk so that I actually have a workspace in order to do the problems, but I am so caught up in packing that destroying my perfectly arranged, perfectly masking-taped mass of cords and cables is just not on my list of things to do today.

My dad suggested that I take a sleeping bag on the trip in case I get stuck somewhere. That’s a good idea. I feel like I’m missing some very important travel thing though. I guess I will post my list of stuff not forget and if I am forgetting something incredibly egregious I’m sure it will come to somebody’s attention.

I am now watching the traffic camera for Highway 50 and Sunrise Ave. Kelly works at this place near Sunrise, but this looks like more of a residential area. I secretly wish everyone I knew had WebCams installed in their house so I could vicariously hang out with them. This is very relaxing watching all these cars. It’s almost voyeuristic.

I think I might have to end up spending Friday in Eureka so I should probably to find the nearest Internet cafe (if such things even exist anymore) in Eureka.

I found an Internet Cafe in the phone book. I don’t know what the point is, since my wrists are killing me today, but at least I will be able to check my e-mail. I’m feeling very disappointed tonight. That damn slide better be clear tomorrow. I should probably pack.

(the audioblog thing cuts you off after six minutes, I’ve learned…)