Monster

Here's a fun little tidbit I first heard mentioned in Wired Magazine... the site is called "Daily Monster" where the artist takes a daily inkblot and transforms it into an original monster artwork. The site has taken on a life of it's own now...where visitors are getting involved and creating stories for each of the monsters created each day.

Things are a little hectic lately...

First I got this determination to make sure my business can weather the storm this year with all this talk about "recession this" and "recession that". I haven't seen too much direct evidence of that here yet in Hawaii, but I've heard rumors of it here and there. I've had a couple of clients who have told me, "Yeah, business has been really slow these past couple months"

It's been said there's not much of a catalyst for this fear though beyond just the fearmongering on the daily news channels. I guess I'm not so much a financial analyst, but I understand a big part of all this economy stuff just boils down simply to public perception. People get scared....they tighten up their pocketbooks. That's about all she wrote.

Meanwhile though, my wife and I are like, "Errr, how might this affect your design business?" Honestly, I don't know. Like I mentioned before, in theory, when business is slow...businesses need to advertise more. That's good in talk, but I'll have to wait and see if that's the effect. A couple of new projects have trickled in lately that are precisely due to this effect....so I'm guardedly optimistic. If my business were a color chart...I'd be like a yellow on my own little business happiness wheel. We've been toying with the idea of finding me a lecturer or teaching position part-time to help as a backup.

In the meantime, the casual looksie into our housing situation continues. Sorry Nick....a friend of mine is constantly reminding us "don't do it" for weeks now because he thinks the housing market hasn't even begun to crash. Then I got another investor friend who says there's no sign of a crash at all here in Hawaii. So what does that say? Absolutely nothing... we just keep our eyes open and see what the situation is day after day.

The latest foray is a new condo project coming up new Waikiki that isn't even going to be finished for another 2 years. People are expected to be standing in line for 4 fucking days for this thing! Sorry for the potty mouth but the ridiculousness of this kind of situation appalls me. It's kinda like saying, "Here, I am ready with a half-million dollars to buy your stinkin' condo.... please put me through a 4 day endurance test to get the chance to give it to you!? Oh please oh please oh please!?" If it wasn't for this whole line situation, there was enough attractiveness in this opportunity that my wife and I might have at least considered it...but the more I'm driven into this situation, the more I think it's full of shit. Let these other nuts stand in line.... I got better things to do and other opportunities will come up in the future.

So I dunno, it's ridiculous here. If the market is turning south, there are certainly many people still ready to ignore it right now.

So all this nuttiness is driving me insane. I'm turning into my own daily monster.