Back In The Swing Of Things...

A fairly awesome vacation was had; always nice to see my nieces, who are, I’m sad to say, far cooler than all other kids, including yours. The only truly remarkable thing is that I live in Phoenix, and went to the Oregon coast to get a sunburn. If you’ve visited the Oregon coast, you’ll know immediately how ludicrous that statement is.

Trying to get all caught up on Audio Damage stuff, plus the various contracts I have out currently. I basically stepped off the plane and right back in to the Pixel Mines. Such is the life of a user interface designer, I suppose. Not as glamorous as being a rock star, but it certainly is far more likely to pay the bills, and that ain’t nothing.

Which brings us to a somewhat more somber subject. Our good friend Adam Jay, who posts here often, had a pretty bad health problem a couple weeks ago that involved a run to the ER, several days in the ICU and lots of follow-up treatment. Adam is a professional musician, and thus, like all professional musicians, he doesn’t have health insurance. The bills from this emergency treatment are fairly alarming, and Adam is really in a bind.

He has started an Indiegogo campaign to help defray the costs of this whole extravaganza, and it falls to us to help a brother out, in the same way that we’d want to be helped if we were in a similar situation. One of the tiers in the campaign is a vinyl EP created from recordings of the hospital gear he made while in the ICU, which is, I think, both crafty and cool.

So do the right thing and hook Adam up. We often speak here about how the public-at-large expects us to entertain them, while continually giving us the fuzzy end of the lollipop. We have to take care of our own, and Adam is one of us, and needs our help.