I’ve resolved to eat my way through our the freezer in the garage. This has been a big bone of contention between my wife and I. She’s convinced anything over about 3 months old in the freezer is “freezerburnt and nasty” and I have a difficult time getting her to prepare it. […]

Today wasn’t really about job-hunting, exactly.  I got word that two of my classes have been accepted for Art Unraveled in Phoenix next August — Dynamic Digital Collage (like last year) and the new Digital Distressing class.  No Pajama party, which was really helpful last year for my day class students to retain what they […]

Again with the not going back to sleep after dropping Grey off.  What a good boy am I.  I came back and got to work, working the networks (of people) a bit.  I got frustrated because I have so many collections of contact information with a mix of stale data.  I guess I should sign […]

All right, enough’s enough.  I have, gathered before me, close to SEVEN  TERABYTES of external hard drives and NAS network drives.  Each individual drive is partitioned in various ways for various reasons; needed a FAT volume for to share with Windows machines, or NTFS for very large files for Windows, or formatted for whatever this […]

Today was spent mostly wrestling with technical problems in the computers at the house, especially Shoshanah’s iMac which has been kernel-panicking routinely.  I wiped the internal drive, reinstalled Snow Leopard and copied the data from a backup on an external drive.  It SEEMS to be stable now but we’ll see.
I’m sure glad for Time Machine, […]

I use Akismet to keep comment spam out of my blog.  It’s amazingly good at it.  Sometimes I look at the strange things that get put in there as an excuse to link to some place where I can buy airplane tickets or Viagra. It usually takes one of three forms:  A long list of […]

Day 3 continued in the same vein — get up, get kid to school, and go to work getting work.
The night before I was considering how to jumpstart my Photoshop and Lightroom teaching opportunities.  I was a bit rueful that I had lost my Acrobat Connect Pro account with my Adobe job; it has a […]

Managed not to waste the day again today.  Got up before 8, got the kid to school, did NOT go back to bed. Managed a whole bunch of relevant stuff to future livelihoods.
Idiot plumber flaked out again today.  My brother did not flake out, came over and spent a few hours first with my son […]

Shortly after my ten-year anniversary with Adobe Systems I got booted in a RIF that wiped out some 680 employees.  As I posted on my Facebook profile:
I was supposed to get laid off in LAST December’s Adobe bloodbath, but my director cadged a stay of execution that bought me another year. During which I developed […]