A stupid time to look for a job

So with the jobless numbers at their highest since 1945 and with businesses going under faster than a Biggest Loser cruise ship torpedoed by the fat fascists Jude and I decide that it's time for a move.

To a city where I don't speak the language,
And that wouldn't really take to me even if I did.

Of course Judith already has something there... which is good. It just doesn't pay us enough to keep us in the profligate style to which I've become accustomed, or even to keep us in style.

So I'm going to have to work.

Luckily there seems to be a lot of goodwill towards me out there. I'm really good at what I do. Given the right culture.
I'm happy to work on anything - there's no such thing as an ugly brand in my book.
And of course I'm cheaper than I should be.

So while the agencies aren't lining up to sign cheques; they are lining up to have a look, poke around under the hood and work out what might or might not work for them.

I have some ideas too. Less work, more play, better input. But we'll see.

There are worse things in the world than living in a very cool city and having time on your hands.
Looking forward to it

People are perverts two

Girl eating the apple in profile with graffiti behind her
Originally uploaded by stevenjude

take a girl in her underwear
give her an apple
shoot her eating the apple in a window
tag the picture with the word "Suspenders"
and you average 50 hits an hour
filthy men

First blog in a while

Flash test
Originally uploaded by stevenjude

It's my first blog in a while... primarily because I've not been able to feel my fingers for the last couple of days - rendering typing somewhat difficult (I thought head-spike but didn't love the look)

It's -25c here today with a wind chill taking us south of -40c.

Now I know that I have to get used to that - but when the ice on the inside of your car is an inch thick and the heater causes it to melt into 'that'll smell later" puddles you know that it's cold.

Frostbite warning is down to five minutes. The tire pressure sensors on every car are going haywire and even though I'm wrapped up as though I were a boy in a bubble about to be shipped by FedEx I feel chilled to the bone.

Brrrrrrrr and GMTFOH

Gloomy

1-26-07
Originally uploaded by chrismaverick

It's really cold outside

I'm tired (mainly because while I'm back in the swing of 5,30am to get to the gym I'm not yet at early to bed to make that painless)

One person that I work with is entirely spineless, I'm entirely emotionless. That makes for friction.

But mainly it's just cold outside
Or is it mainly that I'm tired

take your pick
Either way I'm not a smiley person today

GMTFOH - Weather watch

High: -10 °C RealFeel®: -13 °C
Low: -17 °C RealFeel®: -33 °C
Frigid with blowing and drifting snow; considerable clouds with a couple of snow showers

Dirty old men

knackered schoolgirl spy?
Originally uploaded by stevenjude

The world is full of dirty old men, it seems. I post this wholesome image of a busty young wench dressed as a schoolgirl and suddenly it's on a 'we love knee socks' site and being salivated over by men who, I guess, watch a lot of women's field hockey; remote in one hand, whatever comes TO hand in the other.

Why it's almost enough for me to mark the thing as private. Almost. I need the hits.

Which reminds me - I lost the sitemeter from this site when I updated the look. Partly due to technical incompetence and partly due to the fact that every time I saw the number's dip I'd slide in a phrase like "Lindsay Lohan's Lesbo Snatch" just to get those Middle Eastern hits (go Yemen)

I miss knowing who's been in - but I have to say that freedom from the tyranny of the numbers feels good. Really good.

So the auto show starts next week

2010 New Shelby Mustang
Originally uploaded by stevenjude

which means that this week is full of people trying to grab the attention of the press with big announcements, lame stunts and women squeezed into jumpsuits (the politically correct bikini)

Went to the Ford event yesterday. Lots of talk about hybrids (the make a lot) about plug-in hybrids (they're about to make a lot) and about battery electric vehicles. Or BEVs as they're known.

Now there's something about BEV that makes me think busty barmaid. Maybe it's a Bev Callard Coronation Street thing - but I can't think BEV without thinking - probably a bit of a tart. Which would be great for a big white van.

"I'm taking the BEV down the boozer, Shirley"

"Try not to kill another of the twins in the driveway as you come back"

"Will do dahhhhrrrr-lin"

Seems to me that as we get to HEV. P-HEV and BEV cars in addition to PZEVs and ZEVs that we're in need of some new propulsion language.

Any suggestions?


FRIGIDITY WATCH : This week we can look forward to a HIGH temperature of -14c. GMTFOH!

Weekend almost over

So we do the frame thing
Originally uploaded by stevenjude

and it's been one hampered by snow... I did manage to get some shots of the increasingly lovely Rebecca post haircut, have dinner at a friend's house, go to a big Ford press conference and get in some time at a camera event (less for sale this time) -- so it wasn't a total washout; it it's felt LONG. Really LONG.

Was planning to be in NYC next weekend but with Jude away and a photo shoot coming up I might have to delay. Right now all I want to do is sleep (sick friend - late night). Might just try to do that.