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580 days ago

The geeky reason is that I can't modify my own CSS here. But you don't care about the geeky reason. I'm leaving Live Spaces... moving on to wordpress. Go there: http://larriecampbell.wordpress.com/. Don't forget to update your RSS readers: http://larriecampbell.wordpress.com/feed/ Rock on!

Three Years and What I've Accomplished

581 days ago

About a week ago, I received a certificate of appreciation at work along with a gift to say thank you for three years of amazing work. For each of those three years, it's possible that I spent about 2,000 hours working (though it's hard to really get an exact number since I'm so cool that I would often work late or check in on the weekends and made sure to use my paid vacations). So in 6,000 hours, what have I accomplished? Let's make a list; lists are fun. Thanks to an expensive trip to the ER in an ambulance nearly two years ago, I now sit in one of the most expensive chairs in my department; it was part of my negotiations with my current boss for my transfer, thank you very much. I have two mighty monitors that increase my productivity 269.09% (I did my own study to determine this very accurate number). This is my fourth job title (which also equates to more $$$, and that's the important part, right?). With the three-year certificate also came the fabulous gift of an ...

One More Campbell... Lucky World

581 days ago

She's here. Mick and Tracy welcomed numero cinco into the world yesterday. Congrats!!! Kate Campbell - Monday, April 21 at 4:33 p.m. Stats: 20.5" - 7 lbs 12 oz - little girl with big lips (for a white girl) I stopped by the hospital yesterday after work. My mom and I brought Mick's four other children in to meet their new sister. They were pretty excited, even little Jane who had the most reasons to be jealous of this new baby and her tendency to steal the spotlight. Daddy Mick did a superb job of taking pictures and then quickly uploading them to Facebook when he got home that night. (Of course, that meant that I posted a comment or two shortly after he posted them and before starting the process of going to sleep - around midnight.)

Misfits and the Weekend

583 days ago

Sometimes I am a fan of busy weekends; sometimes I am not. This weekend, I really should have been un busy so that I could get school work done. However, I have a hard time saying no. Case in point: I was invited to four events Friday night and I ran around so that I made it to three of them; none of them included school work. (On Saturday, I only managed to show up at two of the three possible calendar items; it's more difficult when they're not all in the same city.) Friday morning, I arrived at work a little early with the hopes of running to the gym before the evening's activities got rolling. However, I really, really like our marketing department; especially after I tell them we can fix it first thing Monday morning (to avoid an emergency release late on a Friday) and instead of accepting this, they call the CIO. CIO comes tromping over to find myself and another in my group to inform us we better get this taken care of; developer gets called in from running errands at 3:45 ...

Designing Billboards and Second Life: All In a Day's Studies

587 days ago

If you remember from my last post (I know, I know, that was more than a few hours ago, how could I expect you to still remember it?), there is at least one reason why I am a fan of my graduate studies: it helped me to get money back from the government. Otherwise, I would have had to pay another $400 on top of what I already paid to cover the costs of all the programs the liberals are blessing us with. Well guess what... there is more than one reason that I like my graduate studies. Reason number two: I like my projects. Currently, I am designing a billboard and poster for a new store opening up in town called Hot Tootsies. (Never heard of it? Well, where have you been hiding out that you don't get the announcement for stores that don't exist?) I created a handful of billboards and the one that I liked the most was shot down by classmates and the professor so I ended up with this one. Before you look at it, though, get in the car and get driving 75 m.p.h. Then look at it and ...