So, what did I plan for my girlfriend on Valentines Day?  Instead of going out, I cooked dinner for her!  I did not plan to go out because I know everywhere was going to be crazy and expensive.  It is not that I am a cheap ass, I just did not want to have a bad experience of waiting, waiters rushing us, and just the plain irritating things that goes on.

This year, I cooked for my girlfriend.  The menu was parmesan chicken with fettuccini noodles, spinach salad with a side of bread.  Since we don’t drink alcohol as much, we chose IBC cream soda.

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Last night I finished up a print piece that was going into a competition.  I am not a print designer by all means so doing print work was probably my biggest headache this month!  I have a customized built PC; C2D processor with 2GB of RAM.  Its fine working for web projects, but for print, it was a nightmare!  It was times like these I wish I had a Mac.

I had to make a 20×30” motivational poster featuring my army unit’s “Espirt de Corps.”  Keep in mind I did not volunteer to do this, someone else volunteered me!  They knew I am a designer in my civilian career but what they didn’t know is that I don’t do print!  I mean, I do know some print stuff because of where I work but I don’t have extensive experience with it.  I pretty much had no choice since there was no one else available. read more…

Description: This is a 20×30″ poster made for my army unit for a competition for unit “Esprit de Corps.”  The goal of this poster is to publicize the strengths and successes of our organization.

About the piece:  It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to do.  I’ve seen most military related motivational posters and they looked a bit propaganda like.  I wanted to make something artistic, fun and serious while making our unit look good.  Since we are a civil affairs unit, a unit that deals with helping displaced civilians in other countries, I wanted to us helping people yet us looking like a strong fighting force.  Our units colors are purple and gold since we are a Hawaii based unit, I added floral elements to the design.

Design:
 

One day, my friend, theRemix, wanted me to make him some type treatments for a site he was working on.  I was not sure what to make so in about 3 minutes, I made this Web 2.0 style font style.  I am not sure where I learned this from but it just clicked in my head!  He liked it so much he wanted me to write a tutorial for it so he could do it too.  So here it is my 3 minute Web 2.0 type treatment tutorial!  Keep in mind I am using Adobe Photoshop CS2.

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Last Friday, my Sidekick 3 finally died and I was pretty happy it did.  I am not sure how it died but it just does not work anymore.  It gave me so many problems that I was about to throw it off an overpass.  This was my second Sidekick 3 because my first one had screen problems.  Since I had the insurance plan, I got another Sidekick 3 which had more problems like with the backlight where it would not turn on when I was in the dark.  The battery life also sucked and it felt like a brick in my pocket.  So I went down to my local T-Mobile store and got a Blackberry Curve.

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