Project Kengikat

Thursday

// March 5th, 2010 // Uncategorized

Thursday has been a down day for me. When I say down I mean it was pretty quiet. There were no outreaches for Do Something Saturday or Unpluggin HIV, but there was plenty of work that needed to get done.

I spent most of my morning working on my website. I’ve been meaning to make changes and really streamline it. I am also working on finding someone to design a new logo that will fleck the old logo and incorporate a new logo for the new outreach. While I still like the old Do Something Saturday logo I feel I have outgrown it and it needs to reflect the grown of the outreach. Finding someone to design a logo has been hit and miss….mostly miss. There have been plenty of people saying they would help out, but I think they only want to hear themselves speak or simply wanted to look good in front of others by saying they would donate a logo for my organization. However today I think I had a break through with someone who watches my youtube channel. So hopefully I will be able to wrap this up pretty soon with her help.

The other thing I needed to work on for my website is spending some time learning how to make changes to it on my own. This is been hard for me because I don’t know code and my social network is all cut and paste and templates. I love this because I am in full control and when I want to make changes I simply do it. This is not been the case with the website. Although I love the hard work and time my friend has been putting in since day one, I would still like to be able to make changes to the website when I need to. I also don’t want to feel like I am being a bother or asking too much of someone. So this means I need to spend some time learning how to do the work myself or simply do not renew the domain when it comes up for renewal in July.

It was also a laundry day for me and I really hate to do laundry. I especially hate it when I go down to do it and one person has all three washers and dryers with lot of other shit sitting in front of the each washer and then clothes on the folding table waiting to go in the dryer. Almost like they are the only one in the building. However today I wasn’t in the mood to wait, so I asked her if I could use the washer she was taking clothes out of. She gave me a nasty glare but said yes. When I came back I did the same thing by asking her if I could use the dryer she was taking clothes out of. However this time she said no and this is when I reminded her that she already had the other two dryers. I also told her that she didn’t own the machines. She changed her tune and I was able to use the dryer.

I also needed to take Dodger out for his long walks today. He has been acting out and pissing in the apartment and I have not been a happy camper about this. The other night he even snapped and barked at me, so I needed to let him know very quick that there is only one KING in this castle. I think he got the message because today after I left him in the apartment all he did was bark while I was gone.

This evening was time to chill out and hang with my two best friends Tina and Andy. Tina has family in town so we met up at Hollywood and Highland for dinner and fun. We ate at a place called U-Wink which I have heard good things about, so it was cool to be able to go there with them. U-Wink combines technology with food and fun and from the time I was there it was a complete score. You order your own food right from your table using the touch screens at each table. You are then able to play games while you wait. The food was good and the games were cool. Andy even won a cool “Pickle” for Tina. I don’t know why they named the stuffed doll “pickle” because it clearly is not a “pickle”

Since we were at Hollywood and Highland and it is Oscar time I was able to take some cool pictures of the setting up and all that fun stuff. We even had the chance to walk on the red carpet that was completely covered with plastic. It’s funny how people see it on TV and think the area is is so glamorous and swanky, but I think the area is just ok. It is nice how them manage to pull of the event. Although it has changed to much since the days when it was at the Shrine Auditorium right by USC. So just for people who have not had the chance to see the preparations up close I snapped some pics.

It was another awesome day. I got work down and I had time for me as well.