Adam Turtle, Freelance Web Design in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Since1986
Archive for August, 2007
August 31 st
Moving for the 4th time
Today I actually found somewhere to live. Couldn’t have come any later, my rent was up in the last place first thing tomorrow morning. I’ve moved to the Vantaggio on O’Farrell and Leavenworth. It’s an interesting neighbourhood – right in between the Tenderloin homeless area and the porn stores. I just got moved in this morning and headed out to work. First impressions are that it’s a bit of a dump. I’m sharing a room with someone else, who I’ve yet to meet but judging by his ÄŒesky – Anglicky dictionary is Czech…
August 27 th
Homeless
If I don’t find a place by Saturday I am officially homeless. The place I’m in at the moment is only available until the end of the month and after that I’m on my own. I’ve been sitting here on Craigslist all day responding to everything. I’m not sure I’ll miss this place all the same, I have to get off work early tomorrow to come here to have my room and stuff sprayed for bedbug infestation. America sucks…
August 24 th
Freakin’ bedbugs
It’s 3:53am and I’ve been woken up by a crawling sensation. I knew I had bedbugs but I turned on the lights to be greeted by these fellas:
The picture quality is pretty poor, but I’m done apologizing for my camera. That’s four different bugs, and they’re not the biggest. There’s a few larger ones that scurried off when I got up. I’ve got bites all over me and they itch pretty bad, but now I can’t even get to sleep because I can’t stand the thought of these dudes crawling all over me…
August 21 st
Google Dance
SES Conference
Today I went down to San Jose with my boss Rodrigo and Colin. We were going to the Search Engine Strategies conference to get tips on how to increase our company websites’ searchability on the major search engines. It was a good conference and I picked up loads of great advice, not to mention a bag load of free stuff like tshirts, alarms clocks and sweets. Probably the best part of the conference was the free AOL lunch. Full three course meal at the expense of AOL, the only catch being we had to sit through some boring guy’s presentation on mobile devices…
August 19 th
Look who I met
Who’s the other guy in the photo you’re thinking. Well, he’s one of the greatest guitarists on the planet. And the other guy is Joe Satriani. He’s pretty good too. Two great guitarists side by side.
Yeah, ok. Maybe Satriani is slightly better than me but really we’re splitting hairs here. I managed to get off work a few minutes early so me and Ralph burned rubber and got to Hyde Street Studio. It’s in one of the worst areas of town, middle of the Tenderloin – couldn’t believe it!..
August 16 th
Going to see Joe Satriani!
Got a rather nice phone call today from local radio station 107.7 The Bone. It went along the lines of “Congratulations, you and a friend are going to see Joe Satriani at the Hyde Street Studios on Saturday. It’s a private gig for an audience of 20 where he’ll play his 1988 album ‘Surfing with the Alien’ in it’s entirety.”
Nice. I’m actually considering selling the other ticket, considering how much it’s worth.
August 15 th
Monterey And Carmel
Today was my day off so I took one of our tours down the western coast to Monterey and Carmel. Monterey is famous for a few things, notably cheese and John Steinbeck. Carmel is a posh little town where many of the rich and famous own houses, and who once had Clint Eastwood as their mayor.
So here’s a few of my photos. I’ll talk you through some of them afterwards.
So from the top: The first picture is a very fat squirrel. Nothing special, it’s just fat. The second is the Lone Cyprus…
