I'm doing research for a potential project. I'm trying to figure out user behavior for a fictitious application, so I won't be sharing specific information about you, but rather trying to develop general personas I can use to run scenarios for accomplishing a task on a financial site ( Read more... )

I've worked on drawings of Bruce Timm's Elektra and Hawkgirl the last couple of days. I didn't start the online tutorial on digital painting, but I did start work on an oil painting of primitive shapes of the skull. I have a pencil drawing of a more detailed skull as homework, which I'm using this evening to get started on. Even though this week's ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I did another Harley Quinn drawing. I didn't add any darker values because I want to use it in a "digital painting for beginners" tutorial I want to start next week ( Read more... )

Recruiter 5 called me on Friday afternoon about a potential freelance gig, but I won't hear if I get an interview until after the holiday. This gives me time to flip through a couple of technical books to figure out if there's another work sample I can add to my portfolio and to review wireframe creation in Illustrator. Normally I use Visio, and I' ( Read more... )

Crazy busy week is over! I finished my three day class for Illustrator yesterday. I learned a lot, and I'm psyched to put all it of into practice. My graphic design class assignment went over well, and I made a lot of progress on our assignment for next week during class, so I'm in good shape. I can spend the next few days tweaking the color ( Read more... )

This week has been largely devoted to going through my receipts, and today I started printing out financial statements for 2010. Electronic delivery of my 1099's and retirement account statements makes things go so much faster. I'm still waiting for a couple of W2's that will be sent via snail mail, but that's no big deal. As long as they arrive by ( Read more... )

It's January, which means time to break out the spreadsheets for tax time! It's also the month I review my monthly expense spreadsheet with any changes for 2011. The two big changes are: my rent is going up $39 and COBRA ends for me on July 19th. Prime candidates for further budget cuts are my land line and cable. I made cuts here last January and ( Read more... )

I had a great time visiting chanel19 and flamingcarrot in D.C. for Thanksgiving! The bus was late getting back because of traffic in Delaware and the crazy long line to get to the Lincoln Tunnel. It wasn't unexpected, though. Sunday night at the end of a holiday weekend was bound to be full of traffic issues. I had plenty of books to read and bottled water, so it was ( Read more... )

I finished the Flash cs4 book earlier this evening. My brain is bursting with new information. I'll start making my way through another one of my technical books tomorrow. It occurred to me that I usually start planning my tax-related shopping list in November, and since I plan to be in Denmark with the fam during the holidays, I need to wrap it up ( Read more... )

For people not following me on twitter, I have a question. Have you ever used cafe press for making tshirts? oracne has suggested I check out zazzle, and I'm happy to hear any other suggestions ( Read more... )