I thought the people on the celiac forums were exaggerating about needing to get rid of all their kitchen stuff.

Oops.

So now we need a new toaster, cutting boards, a fair chunk of cooking utensils, cast iron pan, etc, and basically a special "no gluten zone" where anything porous or with small parts will live (on what counter space I have no idea ( Read more... )

I don't wanna work.

I wanna go to the art supply store.
Which counts a little bit as work, but not urgent work, as the materials I am getting fall under prototyping rather than straight production.

Jo-ann's paint section does not extend to things like fluid acrylics and self-leveling gel, so it would mean heading to the U District, plus wandering ( Read more... )

Both my SLR bodies are currently non-functional, and I haven't been able to make it down to Ballard to get a repair quote, but previous experience tells me that it will be $200 minimum to get both repaired, and likely more. A random tweet directed me to the knowledge that the successor to the nicer of those bodies (so with HD video and eye-fi) is ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm posting this everywhere, but that is because it is AWESOME:

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and brings back so many memories, though I might have started with 2.0 instead of 1.0.
I still have a few of the pixellated, over-saturated things I made with it loitering in the depths of my hard drive.

I got out the (black) photo velvet for the first time in ... 6 years? (thank you, 2009 me, for deviating from your normal practice and storing the photo velvet somewhere that would still be logical 6 years later. The color checker card, though, still eludes me.)

Pushkin (the orange cat) was down from wherever he was upstairs to come try and sit on ( Read more... )

I just sent off the final (barring redos) print order to the lab for all Christmas orders, so at least until they start coming back, I have nothing URGENT URGENT to do. Which does not mean that there aren't plenty of red-flagged things on my to-do list, but no longer are there are any that are caffeine-iv-drip class time critical ( Read more... )

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Crash-learning is never fun, but InDesign really is the bomb, and I should have done this ages ago. It's so much FASTER, and having out-of-program image edits update almost automatically without having to put the new version in manually is awesome.  Making it work for matted albums and certain kinds of complex spreads isn't going to work, or at ( Read more... )

Get behind on work committments due to schedule interruptions/being sick.
Start staying up late and caffeinating in order to try and catch up on committments
Get sick due to staying up late and caffeinating
Get behind on work committments due to being sick...

I hate November.

I think I need to suck it up and buy Helvetica. Though I've only really got font budget for one weight, and am not sure which one to get. Bleah ( Read more... )