From the monthly archives:

January 2003

The Hideous Trade Show Experience

by Jason 01.31.2003 Jason's Random Musings

We recently returned from the Chicago Gift & Home Show, a trade show for retail buyers to come and stock their stores. I’d like to say that we signed an account with Marshall Field’s and will be appearing on Oprah in May. To be honest, it was quite a brutal and depressing experience. Perhaps some [...]

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Give Me Benefits Or Give Me Death!

by Jason 01.17.2003 Jason's Random Musings

I remember when I graduated from college almost four years ago and plotted my career path as a freelance illustrator, the well-intentioned arguments from my father on the prospect of getting a "regular" job usually involved some mention of "benefits." I heard it so often, in fact, that I began to think that it really [...]

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A New Year, A New Perspective

by Jason 01.02.2003 Jason's Random Musings

Well, it’s nice to be through with 2002. Not that there was anything horribly wrong with it, although I spent an unwelcome amount of the final days near the toilet compliments of the flu. As you shuffle that to the "Too Much Information" file, I’ll move on. We did fall short of some of our [...]

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