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Anniversary Revelry

April 01, 2003

Happy April Fool’s Day to all the jackasses out there.

Big news: Today is my “One Year Anniversary” with the CINCO DESIGN OFFICE. Gigantic news. One whole year down, with hopes of squeezing a couple more out of the joint.

I’ve honed the colorful dynamics of client relations, improved my photo-tuning process, developed intense catalogs, walked ads through start to finish, designed a watch that made it to production (!) and most importantly, my pong game has wickedly improved. The “community” atmosphere is the best part. We are a team. We bounce ideas off each other and push the process in good directions. Autonomy is cool and all, but man, having multiple voices throwing their two pennies in is so much better. Many eyes is better than two.

Many thanks to my colleagues who keep me going. Namely: Goo, Dean, Wakamoto, Ben, Chris. We roll hard.

Good folks, good projects, good surroundings, good pong and good times.

To the “Top Brass”: Thank you for the opportunity. Much appreciated.

I look back on my two-year stint in California and cringe. What a hellhole. Good people down there made it memorable (Chief, Rose, Bridges, Baker, Michaylira, Tevis, Jared) but man, no thanks on livin’ there. My overall “quality of life” factor went through the roof! Rain. Clouds. Cold nights. Moss. Grass. Empty freeways.

My year up here has been so much better.

Thanks to my colleague periphery too: Rod, Jay, Fred, Nemo, Faz, Robin and the guy who works at the Plaid Pantry on 22nd & Hawthorne.

It gets better: Melissa will be back in a little over three weeks. Good stuff all around.

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