Happy new year to all you out there on the web! IT’s been a dry week for posting to my blogs, but I’ve been enjoying myself and my vacation - it’s a good thing! Christmas was nice, and I’ve spent the last week on my couch playing Dragon Quest VIII - it really is quite a fantastic game.
Brien and I are about to hop off to Jason’s for a NYE party. It should be fun - check my Flickr stream tomorrow for some pics! Next week will see a new design for Futurist Now, and my sisters wedding!
Vacation is going well! Today Alex and I went down to the Seattle Public Library to shoot some photos. I number of them came out quite well - check out the Flickr set, or the Flickr group I just made.
I’m taking quite well to not thinking about work. My stress levels are doing much better then they have been for the last couple of months. I think another week of this will certinaly do me well.
My vacation is off to a roaring start. After closing that deal yesterday I got to take our new consultant to lunch today. The moment he walked into the resturant I was pleasantly surprised to discover why his name sounded familiar: we had knowen each others from years back and have met at various events - we have a number of mutual friends.
After lunch I took one of my Christmas presents - a Best Buy gift certificate - and put in a little bit of money for myself to get a Christmas present. I got a Canon SD400 so that I would have both an easily pocketed camera as well as something to act as a backup in case my 10D ever decides to go tits up again.
I’m pretty impressed with the SD400 at the moment. It’s obviously nothing compared to the 10D but still packs a pretty decent little punch. One surprising little feature is “selective color”. Using that feature lets you select a color in the scene to keep and drop everything else out. As you can see from the photo above it can lead to some striking photos. It’s easy to do after the fact in Photoshop but still a nice little quirk.
Jake and Tres joined me for dinner tonight, then Brien joined us after to watch War Games. God - I had not seen it in ages and had forgotten how cool of a movie it was.
Ethan has put together a nifty site containing all of the Al-Anon comic strips published in yesteryear. Great site to browse around in and funny as all hell. By reading these you can learn how to hide your booze, and drive a car as well as other essential life skills.
A while back I wrote about experimenting with Flickr again. I was curious as to if Flickr would stick in my life or be another fleeting internet meme.
It looks like the jury is in - I’m hooked enough that I just plunked down the $24/yr for a pro membership so that I can upload and organize to my hearts content. Go Flickr, GO!
I <3 my photostream!
I have a serious case of holidayitis. I really just want to get on with my vacation. Luckily I only have one more day of work to endure (and it could be a bang of a deal day too) before I am free. Tomorrow will hopefully be blessedly quick and then I can get to catching up on so many things.
Tonight Brien helped distract me by taking me with some friends of his to go see Christmas lights. We were rather underwhelmed with them, but they were kind of pretty and made for some interesting shots.
I was out much later than I planned however and Skype was quite sullen about it. I really need to work on being around for him more on weeknights. Luckily he will get two full weeks of daddy time to help make up for it!