I am sooooo tired.

While Jan was out all day at a friend’s house for a “girls’ party”, I was home working on a new web project. I have been programming for the past 10 HOURS STRAIGHT… and I’m tired. It’s 3am and I’m calling it quits for the day.

The worst part was from 8pm to midnight (yes, 4 hours) when I was slamming my head against the wall trying to figure out why one page would look perfect in Firefox but would load all funky in IE. Damn you Bill Gates!! In situations such as this, there is an indirect relationship between the simplicity of the solution and the hysteria achieved when the answer is finally found. If all that was missing was a semicolon, I would have jumped off my terrace onto a car six stories below. I felt so good when I finally made it work that I almost cried. Then I continued working.

The site isn’t finished yet (as you can see from the missing pages), but we’re hoping to have it done by the end of the week. Waddaya think?

If I’m gonna head up to the mountains for a day of snowboarding, the one guy I’d like to have with me is Julian “The Dick Man” Dykmans (he hates that nickname). Julian is a Belgian pro skater who lives here in Barcelona. I met him two years ago when he auditioned for the play I was directing at the time – The Marriage of Bette and Boo. He has a bit of an accent so you can kinda tell that English isn’t his native language so I cast him as Bette’s father – a severe stroke victim who can’t pronounce any consonants and so no one can understand what he’s saying. He was perfect!

Julian has been snowboarding for well over 10 years and is the one guy who I find myself struggling to keep up with on the slopes. I thrive on the challenge. He’s also a good guy to have at your side if you’re ploughing through the trees off-piste or spotting the big jumps.

We hopped on the 7am train out of Plaza Cataluña and were on top of the highest peak at La Molina by 11am. The sun was shining and the snow was just right. Plus, if you go skiing during the work week, you’ve got the entire mountain all to yourself! La Molina isn’t the largest station in the Pyranese so we were able to explore the entire station by 5pm.

You don’t want to go skiing with someone who you don’t get along with because you spend more time sitting next to them – on the train and on the ski lifts – than skiing. This was fine with me because it gave us a chance to catch up after not seeing each other for over two months (Julian just got back from a two month skate trip to Argentina).

I think we were on the train heading home for about 15 minutes before we both passed out unconscious. A good day was had by all.

It only took three months of grueling work – eight hours every Tuesday and Wednesday – programming, fine-tuning and adjusting till we obtained the absolute highest quality, but it’s finally done: the pictures from our November production of All In the Timing are finally up on the web!

I’d like to thank everyone who answered my plea for photos. Yes, that means you, Piers.

You can access these stunning images from the Resources Page of our super-secret internal company website.