July 2009 Archives

Josh and Marty Sklar
Originally uploaded by Club Josh.

Josh with Marty Sklar on July 17, 2009. This was the day Marty chose to retire from the Walt Disney Company and was honored with a window on Main Street USA on City Hall. It was a great pleasure to help Marty back to his car after the ceremony was concluded.

I am getting back into the swing of things after a low-energy week and a bout of something of a chest cold. Knowing my luck, it was probably H1N1, but I won't find out for several years. Now that I am back up to 90% or so, I have to turn my attention to several exciting events on the Club Josh Calendar.

First up, tomorrow is the 54th Anniversary of Disneyland, always a fun day for me at work (nothing compares to the 50th in 2005 and the craziness that ensued). Tomorrow, in addition to all the festivities, Marty Sklar gets his long overdue window on Main Street. He is finally retiring which is sort of sad, but glad he is still around to receive the window and still tell stories of Walt and the fun days of WED back in the 50's and 60's. Marty was a special guest at our opening party for the Nemo crew back in 2007, and it was a highlight that he came down and told stories about Walt and the original subs. I'm hoping to get a photo with him to add to my series of "Imagineers with a Window on Disneyland's Main Street with Josh" photos. (Joining Bob Gurr).

After that is the gala wedding celebration for my friend Kris. I have known him now for over 24 years and will get a chance to summarize that relationship during the wedding. I have a rough idea of what I am going to say, but still want to put some more thought into it. My usual route will be to jot some notes down in the bumper to bumper traffic up to Silverlake, so I endeavor to not wait until the last minute. Tomorrow night I want to go shopping for a nice comfortable outfit to survive the heat. Thank goodness he's not getting married in Arizona!

After that, it will be off to the aforementioned hot heartland of Arizona - Phoenix to visit the relatives. Shooting for either the end of July or the end of August. July would be preferable since we are planning a quick trip to Georgia and Tennessee in September. Really, I do not have a sweat fetish, but it seems like I will be visiting a lot of sweaty places this year. Combine that with a Summer-for-them visit to Argentina in December, I think I need to head to Alaska or Finland or someplace cool next year!

The 28th of June was the 14th Anniversary of Club Josh, which truly amazes me! I never thought I would stick with the site so long, and trust me some times it seems like an abandoned site, but I still tinker with it as often as I can. I do yearn for the old days of having a computer desk job where I could experiment with things and work at the same time.

As is always fun, be sure to check out the Evolution page to be reminded of the fun that is historical web design!

This redesign is pretty darn modern with its rounded box corners and rounded graphics, but it's what all the kids are doing these days. I do wish I was better with my Movable Type system so I could dump the entire site into it, and still manage to keep different looks and feels for the sub sections - I don't want the Gorn page to look like the Jarrepalooza page! I have seen some neat integrations of Gallery and MT, so there is hope that I can get the Diaries into MT along with the galleries that are still on the Club Josh server and not on Flickr.

That's all for this year! I have had enough cake for today..