The sun did rise today!

I chatted with my father yesterday, and as he assured me then, the sun did rise today. His advice was similar to most of your comments, document, document, document (for when everything all goes pear shaped).

One of our team mates (Deb) took us out for coffee this morning as a nicer way to start the day. The coffee was great! Seeing Val Kilmer sitting near us outside the Starbucks was pretty special too. He's very attractive in person. Some people don't look as good off screen as on, but he does.

My boss pointed out a very interesting article in Wired magazine this month.
Dear Hollywood Studios talks about problems with selling movies and TV online, and how it relates to the way Studio's handle it all.

I procured a couple words on The Big Word Project. Jenny and Gate. They both point to jeninason.com, then I put in a referrer check at jeninason.com which sends them onto (for now) my blog. Just wanted to be sure I pointed them to a URL I'd own in the future.. since I don't think my blog will be here forever. Here is the quickie code for my own future reference!

$pos = strrpos($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], "thebigwordproject");
if ($pos === false) {
// not found... stay here
} else {
header("location:http://jeninason.blogspot.com");
}

I had a very strange thing happen yesterday at lunchtime when I was at the mall across the street from work with my friend Deb. I didn't mention it in my blog yesterday.. because my day was just so fubar I couldn't process what a strange thing it was. We walked into the Macy's, and went to the section where we usually get (or try to get in our sizes) the jeans we like. They weren't there! As usual Macy's had rearranged everything, and we turned to go look in other parts of the store, when I stopped and looked right, then looked back to my left where Deb had been walking, and there was a woman standing next to me. She turned to me and started screaming at me. It was the most bizarre thing. She was yelling about me "loitering" in Macy's, about me stopping too close to her, standing in her way, and generally being a very nasty person. The oddest part of it was she had a cat on her shoulder! A live cat.. on a lease, but perched on her shoulder like a parrot. Having no idea how to react, I just started laughing at her. I had to assume she was joking for some reason, as I'd never seen her before in my life. The sales associates just stood there and stared. Deb and I started to walk away, with the woman screaming after me, ranting about something or other. We left the store and came back to work. The only thing about the incident that bothered me was that the staff didn't do anything at all. They should have at least called security, or come and asked if there was a problem. I emailed the Macy's feedback address and explained what happened. They have offered me a gift card, but I sure as hell won't be going back to that store in a hurry! Besides the fact that I don't think they sell the jeans I was looking for anymore.

Sorry about the ramble today! Lots of topics, but none Stargate related I'm afraid!

BFN