Last night, I scored the company season tickets to the Twins/Tigers game.  Along for the outing were Lauren, Kate, and Tim.  After asking a couple people if they were interested in the tickets and everyone said no, I realized I don’t have as many friends as I did several years ago!  Remember in 2003, I accidentally bought 27 tickets to the Twins home opener and was not only able to get rid of all the tickets, but was able to sell all the tickets to friends.  I didn’t even have to resort to giving them away.  Not that this is a bad thing.  I would say I have a smaller group of closer friends now, and had a larger group of casual friends then.
 
Anyway, the Tigers came back for the third time this year in the late innings against the Twins’ usually reliable bullpen to win a heartbreaker, 5-4. 
 
Today at work I worked on a few different projects in InDesign.  I seem to go through streaks and patterns of doing the same type of projects for periods of time.  In 2006, it was postcard after postcard.  In 2007, it was e-mails blasts and magazine ads one after the other.  Now, it seems it’s cut sheets and laying out documents in InDesign that has taken over.  Here’s what I enjoy about graphic design—I can just put elements where they look good and that’s the end of it.  I don’t have to add any functionality or write any code to go behind the design.  Until now. 
 
In the new company website I designed, there’s this cool little interactive Flash feature on the front page where you can scroll through stories.  Guess who got put in charge of creating that despite having absolutely no training using Flash?  Aaron has been hoping for a long time that I could master Flash so we could have fun interactive games and stuff on the site, but it’s a catch-22 situation.  If I did know how to do that, I could easily score a higher-paying job doing just that.  It’s very much a specialized area of study that doesn’t always go hand in hand with graphic design.  They didn’t even offer Flash while I was at DSU, yet they offered Director, which is about the same thing only you can’t create applications for the web.  I mastered Photoshop, but then I go to use Illustrator and you think it’s going to operate the same way, but it doesn’t, which makes it harder than using a totally new program altogether.  That’s the same with Director and Flash.  You’d think they’d work the same way, but they don’t, and it’s very frustrating.
 
Normally we would have softball on Tuesday evenings, but not this week.  In order to keep the whole league on the same schedule over the 4th of July week, we get the week off.  I’m kinda disappointed; I’m on a nice schedule of Tuesday softball and comradery with the team, followed by some dinner and drinks at the Rail Station while watching the Twins game.  We’ll have to pass this week.  That will give me a chance to catch up on some TV and housework tonight.
 
Tomorrow night we’re still planning on karaoke at Country Bar with Lauren’s friend Elise, and then Thursday it’s off to Cannon Falls for a couple fun-filled nights of camping!
 
I’d better enjoy this weekend because it’s the last time for a long time where I don’t have to DJ on the weekends.  The wedding season is heating up dramatically and Joe is having me DJ every single weekend between July 19 and October 11.  Every single weekend.  Including my birthday!  I pleaded to have my birthday off, but he’s already signed us up for more shows than there are DJs and there’s no way around it, apparently.  However, in order to attempt to keep my spirits up, I will receive double pay for the August 23 wedding.  I have every intention of working all these dances and then retiring from the part-time job once they’re all over.