Amanda and I just got back from a dinner party for Lorrie's 22nd birthday, which was actually this last Monday. It was great except for the end, when the six plus cokes I had downed during the night hit me like a three story tidal wave of syrup. Since I've been sick, I haven't had much to eat - I've just lost my appetite, so today I pretty much had a small bowl of cereal and then, 12 hours later, a plate of garlic drenched noodles and a plethora of coke.

I've never gotten sick off of drinking pop, but tonight I felt like I might pass out, it was very strange. Of course I felt like a baby because everyone around me is drinking vodka, etc, and I'm the one who is wondering if I'm good to drive home.


I did, as some of you might have noticed, scrap the old template for caliblog and try something a bit different. Amanda never liked the last one anyways. Last night, I bundled up under a blanket, with my wool socks pulled up knee high, wishing I could breath through both my nostrils at the same time, plopped down in front of the computer and in about four, maybe five hours, over two days time, finished the new layout.

I have to say, it was the most pain-free switch I've ever undertaken. It even looks exactly the same on the Mac & the PC - on the first try no less, which has never happened! There's always something that needs to be tweaked.

Amanda picked the color scheme, I originally had something with a bit more blue, green and yellow to it, but the Barney-look is growing on me. There are a lot of little things that are, for the first time in a long, long time, missing from the layout. First off: no palm trees, we've also dropped the "season 2, 3, 4" theme we had going.

But, as dorky as it sounds, I'm very excited about the new look. I really like the use of our flickr streams in the header. Okay, moving on.


Actually, it's late and I need to get some sleep if I'm ever going to get over this cold. I wanted to write about a diner I had last night with Tara, a producer for Wes Craven's company – and no, I'm not going behind my other producer's back... Tara recently produced a short film for Sam Raimi that is intended for cell phone broadcast... I was hoping she could do something similar for Pedal's website as we were on the road filming - an every other day video journal kind of deal.

I'll have to get into that later. Goodnight.