Mark Bult Design: San Francisco, CA, Established 1988

What I’ve been doing (May 2009)

• Had Jason and Phu over for dinner. After, we all went to Cafe Gratitude for dessert.
• Did more laundry.
• Updated a couple of my posts:
• Job boards for designers and web developers
• Designing and maintaining email newsletters and marketing campaigns
• Scanned three book covers for the guy who makes high-quality reproductions of pre-1970 first edition jackets.
• Went to Walgreens with Velma. I’ve decided that the one at 23rd and Mission is small, with a lousy selection, and is organized poorly. Meh.
• Moved some stuff around in the kitchen and made a new place for a box to collect Tetra Pak containers for recycling.
• Read the Wikipedia page on space elevators
• Tried again to get a pound of kona coffee from the Park Bench Cafe. Closed again. At 3pm. With the Open sign on in the window again. WTF, damn place is always closed!
• Had coffee and caught up with Mike from Whiskey Media.
• Watched some videos on Flash Catalyst and Flex at Adobe Labs.
• Talked with a recruiter from a talent agency that works exclusively with creatives, ArtisanCreative.com.
• Underwent an excessively long interview (4.5 hours) at a company. Had to do a lot of advance preparation too. More about that another time.
• Went to the South Bay with Velma to take my mom out for brunch for Mothers’ Day (went to Flea St. Café, which is great), and run some errands. Also picked up a bunch of old SF pulps for a steal of a price, considering their excellent condition.
• Watered the garden.
• Washed lots of dishes.
• Scanned a bunch of old prints and added as much meta data to them as I could, including asking a couple people if they knew the names of people in some of the pictures.
• Read a bunch of articles on design, UX, technology, etc.
• Cleaned mold out of the coffee maker since someone forgot to take the filter and used grounds out of it last time it was put away, several months ago (we normally use a single-cup funnel, generally only breaking out the bigger machine when we have party or the like).
• Wrote a brief list of recommended improvements for CNET Download.com’s new email newsletter design (since they asked for feedback).
• Made some more photo illustrations.
• Went through, with Velma, our camping stuff, in preparation for a short trip.
• Wrote out a first draft of categories, tags, and media types for one of my many side projects.
• Researched a lot of companies for my job search.
• Perused design patterns and trends at Elements of Design.
• Updated my Apple ID and me.com account and credit card settings.
• Designed a new home page for OzarkHandspun.com. Will probably start developing it in a month or so.
• Updated my Technorati profile.
• Read the online version of Getting Real, the product development book from 37 Signals.
• Listened to Mayor Peter Drekmeier’s State of the City Address.
• Collected more quotes for Ozark Handspun ads.
• Went to see Ben Folds with Velma at the Fox Theater in Oakland. Damn good show.
• Started a one-page design for another side project.
• Did more laundry. And dishes.
• Ate alpine strawberries from our garden.
• Took some pictures of things we were giving away, recycling, or throwing away, which I wanted to kind of have a visual memory of.
• Pre-ordered a bunch of new UK Hitchhiker’s editions and related books and audiobooks.
• Organized some more files on my computer.
• Watched Zia McCabe shaking her ass, and eat an apple, via live webcam feed while she was in the studio while DJing at W+K Radio.
• Went on a five-day trip with Velma and Bob Merritt to Sequoia & Kings Canyon, with a 2.5-day backpacking/camping trip (a moderate one to test out whether I could carry a full backpack a year-plus after my broken clavicle).
• Downloaded some podcasts of radio shows I’d missed.
• Reviewed wireframes, did some industry research, and sketched some logo ideas for a potential new client project.
• Put our DVDs back in order after someone mixed them all up.
• Went to a meeting with a former co-worker who wanted some design help.
• Had coffee with former co-worker Anne M.
• Had lunch with Peter Drekmeier.
• Went to a meeting with another former co-worker about a project.
• Went to see Star Trek at an early show on a weekday.
• Gave some quick design advice to a former co-worker on a postcard she designed for her business.
• Took my mom, with Velma, out to dinner for her birthday, at the Beach Chalet in San Francisco.
• Made another web design for a side project.
• Kept this list, added links to it, and posted it.

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