Personal Interlude
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Things have been very busy outside of the day job (and at the day job as well, but who cares about that stuff?). I put most of the finishing touches on a new website for Rudi Dornemann last week. I’ll let you know here when he signs off on the site, and I’ll try and write up a postmortem at that point. It was a fun project, involving updating an older design of mine for a different sort of website.
I finalized my artwork for the Strange Horizons donation card over the weekend as well. I will let you know how to get that special Roundbottom art when the donation drive begins. I’m really pleased with how the image turned out. The poor little gob!
I’ve also put nearly every book I own into boxes for the impending move to our new place (only six blocks away from the current house, but $300 a month cheaper).
Blogging will be lighter over the coming two weeks as I’m in the process of finishing up a couple of freelance projects while packing for the move. I currently have no projects scheduled for June or July, so if you are looking for a designer, and want to discuss the possibility of hiring me, you know how to reach me. An awesome new website would be a good investment of your government stimulus check!
I will be on vacation in Oregon for the second week of June, but I can still work on a project for the latter half of the month. If nothing turns up, I’ll put that time into building the new Roundbottom site to go with the relaunch, and in general, just doing more photography.
Have you missed some of the recent Daily Photos? This link will take you to the tag that I file all the daily images under. I don’t usually post images over the weekend, but sometimes I get excited about sharing the work I’ve done and upload it earlier. On my list of things to do is to create a feed specifically for just the daily photos so that I can offer up my blog as a photo blog and get it listed in the directories for those.
One last exciting thing. We purchased a 24 inch LCD for the office computer over the weekend. It is mighty. So mighty that it gives me eye strain to work on it currently. I’ve had to dim down its light as much as possible just to handle looking at it for more than 20 minutes. But I opened up Photoshop first thing after installing it. Oh boy, the room. The room… Unfortunately, the machine it is hooked up to is not powerful enough to run the Age of Conan MMOG I just bought, which means I do not have a computer that can run it period. Perhaps a video card upgrade will solve my problem, but that is $100+ I don’t want to spend after dropping so much on the new monitor. Luckily, I didn’t really pay for the Conan game, but traded in a ton of stuff for it at GameStop. All part of slimming down my possessions for the move. The next step in this is holding a garage sale this coming weekend.
