The Doctokr Post

Dr. Dappen, a previous client of mine during my freelance design days was featured on ABC’s Good Morning America yesterday in an segment on telecommunication doctors practices. His practice; Doctokr Family Medicine (that’s a combination of ‘doc and ‘takler) was examined against other online and phone doctor practices by Diane Sawyer’s team and came across quite favorably over the competition, largely due to his house calls and other more traditional methods mixed with his telecommunication packages. His practice is a unique take on traditional medicine to be sure, and it has always been a lot of fun to develop ways of advertising his services. In the past I have done newspaper ads, flyers, brochures, web-material and character designs for his company. It’s great to see it grow and continue to expand across the Northern Virginian area. The article is on ABC’s website, and there is also a short video of the segment in the upper left side of the column.

The Holiday Homecoming Post

Heading home tomorrow for the holidays, back up to NoVA. I am looking forward to getting to go back, seeing the family, friends and Sarah. I expect there will be much tearing of paper, eating of turkey and bowling of potatoes (ask Uncle Bob, he explains it best). Being that I’m permanent at work now I’ll be getting paid for Christmas Day as well as Boxing Day which is fantastic, as I kinda lost out over last break as far as earnings go. George will be bringing his kids over to play with Coolio while I’m away which is very nice of him. I do feel bad ditching the officially dubbed ‘Family Christmas Cat’ over the holidays, but bringing her back would close to double my ticket price and probably be pretty unpleasant for her considering the short nature of the trip.

Anyway, Merry Christmas to you and your family. Or Happy Holidays if you’d more PC well-wishing.