Whatever happened to the television advertisement jingles, those little 3-second tidbits that get stuck in your head for a whole day -- or two? These days, you hear contemporary music on top of some fancy-schmancy graphics or computer effects. Whatever happened to "Frosted Lucky Charms, they're magically delicious"? Or "My Buddy, My Buddy, wherever I go heee goes"? Or "We're American Airlines, something special in the air"? If you're my age or older, chances are you heard those jingles in your head as you read them.

Then I have to wonder what happened to all those now-unemployed jingle writers. What are they doing now? Are they passing on the lost art of Jingle Writing? Are they teaching it to the next generation of jingle writers? Are they flipping burgers at the burger joint on the corner, humming catchy little tunes incessantly to the sizzle of fake meat?

¶ 10:19 AM 1 comments

Now that I actually have a chance to stick my head above water to breathe, I will.

It's been, oh, about 4 months since I last blogged (almost to the day, I guess). A lot's happened in the last 4 months. Let's see if I can summarize into a few succinct bullet points.

• We at unnamed financial services company moved our offices from one run-down, defunct old building to a much less run-down, defunct newer building. That transition took about 3 weeks to really settle in.
• We at unnamed financial services company wrapped up some major projects, which in turn spawned a whole nest of other projects.
• We at unnamed financial services company have a new Director of Information Technology... me. :-)
  
• My wife and I just celebrated our 6-month anniversary. Has it already been 6 months??
• My wife and I do web design/development services on the side, and we currently have 4 web sites in the pipe, not to mention other graphic design work, and art which my wife is currently putting together for a show.
• I went to my first local kite club meeting in well over a year, and took my wife with me. She got to meet the crew and we taught her how to fly some of my kites.
• My wife and I are currently on a detox diet for nine days. Next Tuesday is the ninth day.
  

Wow, that was pretty succinct.

So between all that and having time for each other (which we decided was most important), we're still (amazingly) getting out periodically.

I guess that's it for now.

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