Scrooges

December always seems to fly by. Unlike a lot of people who find this season to be a pain in the arse, I've always had nothing but positive experiences this time of year.

Sure, some people might be impatient and rushed right around this time, traffic might be bad, it's harder and harder to find parking at the malls...but overall things are better. The days are shorter, the nights are cooler, people you haven't talked to in a while resurface to say hello, the city looks a little nicer with all the decorations...

(Am I the only one who's a little sick of the SAME Honolulu City Lights that's been the same for the past decade? For goodness sakes just change the color of the lightbulbs or SOMEthing. Is that so hard to do? Ho ho ho I digress...a little bit of Scroogy McDuck there)

As much as I try though, everyone around me is a little BAH HUMBUG. My wife isn't really into the whole Xmas thing...she's basically just allowed me to put up some lights in the living room. Mind you I don't actually have it hung or wrapped around anything, it's literally just tossed on the floor surrounding the TV. That's about the extent of our decorations this year because she didn't think we had room for a tree. /SOB

Mom and Dad haven't had a tree for some 10 years now because they say after my brother and I moved out..."What's the point?"

And now as we get older, I don't really exchange much gifts with good friends anymore since we usually just tell each other to save the money and we'll just go out to eat a nice dinner. That's fun too but it's a little sad some Xmas time and there's no tree and no gifts either.

Anyway, I try to make the best of it and just enjoy the month as best I can. But December just flies by like nothing. Here it's in the middle of the month and I haven't even designed my Xmas cards yet. At this point I should just do a New Years card.

Boy I'm getting fucking depressed just talking about this. BAAAAAAH

Nothing much in the design realm. I've got some new logos and work I'd like to show...but since these are often new businesses yet to be launched yet, I figure it's better to keep these under wraps until my clients are under way. Last thing I want is to be sued because I gave away an idea too soon hmm?

There's a photography cruise thing coming up August 2008 here in Hawaii (http://cruisingthroughlife.com/) which is something I might consider. Sounds kinda fun cruising through the islands and getting expert photography tips.

I just rented a documentary called "Helvetica" (http://www.helveticafilm.com/) from Netflix this past week. It's sort of interesting if you're remotely interested in graphic design and typography. OK, who am I kidding.... you'd have to be practicing design to really want to watch it. Other people might want to steer clear. It's certainly eye opening how much detail some of the "legends" in design put into thinking about things like signs and displays. It goes to support my philosophy that EVERYTHING we see around us has design in it if you're just willing to look.

Alright I better stop typing here...I'm depressing myself.