#Randombling: @JenSquard

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @JenSquard

Randombling: A 5 minute long unedited random stream of consciousness produced by a nerd for nerds.

#nowplaying: If You're Into It - Flight of the Conchords

Oh man, me and technology...not BFFs right now.  I am way struggling.  I spent the better part of the last two weeks completely rebranding and rebuilding my website.  I am changing my blog and site to be all together through one platform.  So I have been MIA from life because I was uploading photos, making galleries, adding content, and my favorite - editing CSS code.  Yuck.

I totally got it perfect a few days ago, but when I tried to redirect my domain name to my new site it totally freaked out.  Totally totally.  After a 2 AM phone call to GoDaddy, he said he reset it and it should go back to normal in a few hours.  Yeah, this was all the night before the wedding expo.  Talk about freaking the freak out.  But guess what?  I didn’t reset.  I called again.  He said it is still resetting.  Could take a while.  He could load my original site on his computer, so it just hadn’t made it to my side of the country.  Um, yeah.  What about the blog site that I just sunk two weeks into?  Yeah, nothing going on there.  

Dudes, I am beyond bummed.  I did the wedding expo yesterday, got my website and blog addresses in front of HUNDREDS of brides...and they have nowhere to go.  It’s 2011, it’s not like they are going to call me.  They are going to go online to see if they like my work, see that there is no online for me, and toss my info aside.  Shit shit shit.  There isn’t a second chance with this one.  I want to start calling people soon to follow up, but without an online presence, is there really a point?  

Aaaaaarrgh!   Seriously, GoDaddy, you are effing killing me!  Like bullet straight through the brain, Bruno Mars style.  Get it together and help a sista out!  I don’t know why I started talking like that, I’ll stop now.

So keep an eye out for my stuff - and if you see it actually work, totes magotes send me a tweet or something so I stop pulling my hair out. @JenSquard

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#ProjectThreeSixFive: Day 29

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I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel.  The wedding expo that I have been sinking all of my time, energy and money into is tomorrow.  Good thing, too, this has turned into a total life vampire.  But it’s about to happen and I’m psyched out of my mind for it.  I think it will be good for my business, it will be fun anyways.  So I will soon be rejoining the normal world and getting back to normalness.  Well, maybe not...maybe I will just keep using it as an excuse to hide away in my house and never leave.  Um, yeah, not so much, I am getting a little crazy with these nutso kids of mine.  They are so needy, it’s like they require food and milk  constantly.  I kid I kid, don’t freak out, people, I feed them.  Pretty much every day, too. 

Anyways, here is the pile of junk I am decorating my booth with.  It is going to be frickin awesome, and totally different from all of the other vendors.  PS it looks BADASS!  But more on that tomorrow.

#KThxBye

#ProjectThreeSixFive: Day 28

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This is my super cute mom in her professional in-home voice recording studio.  She is a voiceover artist, and is entering this photo in a contest for Voices.com in hopes to win an iPad...which I totally get to keep if she wins!  Cross your fingers and toes!

If you dig it, then find my current work on my blog or likey likey me on Facebook

#TrueStory: I didn't learn to type until I was 20.

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Totes magotes not even joking on this one.  We didn't get our first computer until I was like 14 or some junk.  I could type on it, and really frickin fast actually, just using my first two fingers of each hand.  I was way fast, like 50 words per minute!  I know that isn't legitimately fast, but it isn't bad for a two-fingered typer.  I always had to look at the keyboard to type, but it worked for me.  I even got through computer classes and stuff doing it...I don't know how, but I did.  My mom could type crazy fast and was a transcriptionist, but she couldn't convince me to do it right.

When I went to college I worked in the computer lab a lot, and it embarrassed the hell out of me that all of the students around me could type and I couldn't.  It felt like they were all listening to me crappy pecking and it was lame.  So I taught myself.  Instead of doing homework I played learn to type games.  I forced myself to retype the entire word if I got one letter wrong.  I was slow as hell, but I was doing it. 

A few months later I took a job as an office assistant, eventually became a transcriptionist and word processor, and within a few months of starting that I was able to type 120 words per minute.  DAMN!  I'm not quite as fast and accurate now since I'm not doing it quite as often, but I'm still around 100 wpm.  Just goes to show you can teach yourself anything at any time.  And embarrassment serves as an amazing motivator.

This #Southland death scene messed up my brain.

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Do any of you watch Southland?  It's a cop drama based in LA on TNT - and it's pretty good.  It's had a slow start and some weird network changes and such, but it's getting better.  Until now it hasn't been incredibly dramatic...mostly like any other crime show, but this week's episode TOTALLY caught me offguard.  Totally totally.  I watched this episode three days ago, and I am writing about it now because it freaked my freak.  Like way messed me up, I am still thinking about it all the time.  What the hark is up with that?  This isn't even a character that I felt a connection with, it's just the staging of it all was so intense and realistic that this scene has burrowed itself into a little crevice in my brain and isn't coming out. 

This show, I don't know, it's different.  It's a lot more real life dramatic, and seems totally plausible.  The drama these people go through are things that actually happen, and it's not quite so theatrical like Law & Order.  The content leading up to this death scene provided absolutely no hint at what was going to happen - they didn't focus on him more than normal, there wasn't any preview of what was to come, nothing like that.  It just happened.  And it was so intense that I didn't cry, I just started shaking.  And now it replays in my head over and over and frickin over.  Yikes.

What do you think about it?  Tell me on Twitter: @JenSquard