Bad day? Vent with haiku.

When I used to work in an office with cool coworkers, I was in a punchy mood one night and started writing haiku* based on real customer emails. I am quite upset At your stupid, sucky, lame Mickey Mouse product. Email 1: Template doesn’t work! You guys are crooks! I hate you! Refund my money! [...]

Out of the book bag…

Just finished reading: PopCo by Scarlett Thomas – For some reason this book reminded me of a mix of The DaVinci Code with the movie version of Fast Food Nation (I haven’t read the book). Throw together some social commentary about the over-marketed toy/kids industry, some cool puzzles and cryptography, and an interesting heroine who [...]

Luckiest Day Ever!

Steve and I started playing Zilch for fun tonight. On my first roll, I got 1-2-3-4-5-6 for 2000 points. On my third roll, I rolled 6-6-6-6-6-6! This is apparently worth 10,000 points. I took a photo of the dice because I was surprised.

Crime scene

Another true story. (Click to see a larger version…) ©2006 Corrie Haffly. From Christmas Newsletter 2006.

Untracked week

Most of this week has been poured into my current Big Project. My schedule has been a little bit off in that I’ve been working a little later to put more time in the Big Project, but so far nothing else has suffered. I’ve been getting to practice harp consistently, have been cooking tasty and [...]

Producing video training curriculum

One of the Big Projects (okay, the only Big Project) I am working on right now for PixelMill involves designing, writing, and producing training videos as part of a curriculum for an Unnamed Company. Anyone following me on Twitter is probably tired of my same ol’ tweets — “storyboarding video curriculum,” “writing training video script,” [...]

More logo ideas

The Tuesdays when I go out to my harp lesson and then hang out in a coffee shop (waiting for my husband to get off work so we can drive home together) seem to be turning into a personal development day where I do a tiny bit of offline work but then do lots of [...]

Baby shower paraphernalia

At last – all the “stuff” related to the baby shower project with photos! First, here is the basket of favors that I put together with white napkins cradling the favors and artificial daisies for accents.

True story.

I’m trying to get back into my routines and limiting my blog-time this morning. So I’m cheating and pulling one of my favorite comics for a quick post. If you like this, there are always more that I can throw into the mix every once in a while. (Click to see a larger version…) ©2006 [...]

Harp-related ponderings.

It’s been a long time since I’ve formally learned an instrument, so I’m trying to go back to my memories of learning piano to see what helpful strategies and tools I can apply to learning the harp. What I can remember… Having a metronome was key. I’m still using the online metronome for this. I [...]