Whiskey, Ink, and Lace

Confessions of a [formerly] shady web designer

Sadly, as of late, I’ve taken on project after project where the client has approached me warily with multiple stories that always start with, “Well, the last designer said that they’d do that too, but…” I oftentimes feel as if I’m a black-hooded stranger in the bad side of town asking for a handout and [...]

You are what you listen to

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So I am a radio talk show. What? Yeah. Well no, but what you’re listening to throughout the day affects what you’re thinking about and I’ve taken up listening to radio talk shows while I work. If you want to be rich, you don’t surround yourself with broke people. If you want to be [...]

I’ve become a book worm

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Barnes & Noble has become a very dangerous place for my budget. I get all giddy when I walk in. I’ve compiled quite the library in the past month. It’s all apart of my huge push to continue educating myself to better my business. I’m okay with breaking the budget for these books, though [...]

I found a kindred soul.

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We must be related. Her name is Silvia. My name is Andi. She drinks bourbon. I drink whiskey. We’re both graphic designers with fantastic taste in alcohol. My parents never told me I had a twin. Anyways, I found this on her blog. I feel like I want to make a poster of this and [...]

Lines in the sand.

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There are big things and there are little things that you go through in life, but I think it is in the unusual little things that make life worth living. The big things… everyone goes through the big things. We are born, we go through school, we get careers, we get families, we grow old, [...]

Get lost

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Made a cool discovery today. While I was procrastinating and avoiding doing productive work like I should be doing right now, I stumbled across this book amidst all the social blabber on my feeds: It comes as a downloadable PDF on their site. So of course, downloaded that shiznit. This is right up my proverbial [...]

I love my clients.

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I had a client that I’ve had for a year, who I did a super simple web site for hit me up for super simple changes. I charged him next to nothing, because he has never once been any kind of difficult and it really took no time at all. He tipped me double what [...]

Children will die

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My poor friends don’t understand sometimes. When I come home from work or when I get done working from home (whichever it is that day) and I’m either an anti-social grump or a whiskey-slinging loon, they think I’ve just lost it. Many of them don’t understand what it’s like to deal with clients all day [...]