A friend of mine made the point to me that despite some overall negative things going on my life, there's a lot of positive stuff going on too. He's so right, and I suppose that's why I'm so upbeat.
Tonight I did a late-night grocery run to buy some junk for partying this weekend. I was all giddy about that. I'm never giddy, especially in grocery stores, but I'll take it.
Part of what I find exciting was my realization last night about what kind of business stuff I can develop. I've got some interesting ideas I'll try to develop in the coming weeks. I'm also pretty sure I'm going to commit to buying that HD camera in December. It's a worthy investment not just for the business, but it also eliminates, no, blows away, the barrier to shooting my own short films. Nothing like shooting in a format that looks great on the big screen.
I'm going to get a chance to do some fun, if not that exciting in terms of content, video stuff this weekend. It's fun to break out the lights, microphones, cables and other junk. It's fun looking through a Markertek catalog, something I haven't done in years. There's like this two-stage joy in doing anything with video. The first stage is the gadget geeketry that goes with plugging in things to each other such. The second is actually capturing some kind of media. I love that stuff.
.NET v2.0 went RTM today. The final bits are finally out there after nearly two years of messing with the alphas, betas and previews. The MSDN subscription I reluctantly bought still hasn't got here though, so I'll have to wait until next week before I can download. I'm not going to wait for the DVD's to arrive.
I'm not going to go to Vegas next week. After talking to my friends, they're not going to have much play time, and frankly it'd be kind of fiscally irresponsible for me anyway.
Citibank hooked me up with an insane credit card deal, and I'm moving all of my credit card debt (entirely too much of it) to a 0% card through January 2007, and no balance transfer fees. So while it sucks that I have the debt, I'm not getting my ass kicked by finance charges anymore. How awesome is that?
I feel fortunate to have so many good things to think about on what might otherwise have been a very difficult day.
Have you ever thought about entering the Coca Cola shot film contest? I believe it's some deal with Loew's Theaters and Coca Cola where they show your short film with the commericals before the movie begins. Not sure what the prize is for winning.