2007
- Stunned by how hard it is going to be to do a cross-platform (win to mac) upgrade of Photoshop.
- Trying to call Adobe support for my CS3 license and the wait is so long they just end the call immediately.
- On hold for 30 minutes and still waiting to process Photoshop upgrade.
- Still on hold with Adobe Sales. Wow.
- After being on hold for 1 hour, reach a human, who puts me on hold, and the call disconnects. ARGGH!
- About ready to give up on Adobe for the night.
- Successfully upgraded Photoshop and Illustrator. Very painful. Still have to send a fax tomorrow!
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Flinn
Designs The artwork from Flinn
Designs was very eye catching. The colors were bold, and the texture
in the pieces made you just want to touch it and rub your fingers
over it. It had a depth and warmth that was really impressive. The
story behind the artists was also compelling. They have a large
amount of land and take in dogs that need a temporary home, or
sometimes a permanent home. They have a lot of dogs as a result,
and the dogs have become part of the artwork. -
Raymond Bock People that do furniture
like this are truly amazing. I have to admit that I really don’t
know how to appreciate this stuff as much as I probably should.
Tammy can tell you about me asking “Where are the nails?” one time
when looking at some amazing stuff like this in the past. -
Stoner/Hatton
Mobiles Ok, there are mobiles, and then
there are mobiles! These mobiles were just so very, very cool.
They had an entire series of mobiles that included these circus and
acrobat characters that were just very cool. They were rather large,
but I tried to convince Tammy that we should replace our mobile in
the living room with one of these but she wasn’t going there. Try,
try again. -
Amazing
Wind Machines Okay, so a
“whirligig” is maybe not art. Or is it? These were really cool, and
made entirely out of plastic so they should last a long time. I
desperately wanted to get the one pictured to the right here to use
as a Winnipeg Folk Festival
“marker”. It would be a stunning marker. But the price tag scared me
off. - Riding on school bus with Mazie 09:44 AM March 29, 2007 from txt
- 5 hours as solo parent and all is ok. 12:47 PM March 29, 2007 from txt
- Just put Mazie to bed – whew! 07:34 PM March 29, 2007 from web
- Gave Izzy a real, honest to goodness smoked bone. She’s completely obsessed. 07:37 PM March 29, 2007 from web
- Sitting down to have some fun in Lightroom. 08:45 PM March 29, 2007 from twitterrific
- Still playing in Lightroom after a break to blog. 10:22 PM March 29, 2007 from twitterrific
- Ran the morning gauntlet and now heading out with Mazie for a bit. 08:57 AM March 30, 2007 from twitterrific
- Getting a fly rod. 11:16 AM March 30, 2007 from txt
- Mazie in crib, cleaning up dog sh**. Exhausted. 07:25 PM March 30, 2007 from twitterrific
- Reminding myself that I like my dog. 07:35 PM March 30, 2007 from txt
- Noting that my dog seems to not want to go out in the rain only slightly less than I. 07:49 AM March 31, 2007 from twitterrific
- Made it to lunch without Mazie falling asleep! 12:29 PM March 31, 2007 from txt
- Very excited about kitty and lion getting a sticker! 12:33 PM March 31, 2007 from txt
- At Apple Store. Feeling bad for Jim. 03:39 PM March 31, 2007 from txt
- Why does my dog think she should be able to dig through the rug in the living room? 07:59 PM March 31, 2007 from web
- Posting on my blog. 08:51 PM March 31, 2007 from web
- Struggling with how to manage my digital media assets best. 11:36 PM March 31, 2007 from web
- Everyone ate. Kitchen cleaned up. Not so bad. 08:00 AM April 01, 2007 from twitterrific
- Mazie’s been in crib for almost an hour and not asleep yet. Not sure exactly what to do. 07:45 PM April 01, 2007 from web
- Decide to go see if she has a dirty diaper. Wish me luck… 07:47 PM April 01, 2007 from web
Starting MinneLightroom
I continue to really love Lightroom. I’ve been finding more and more value out of my 35,000 photos with additional metadata. I haven’t even really gotten out of the Library module of Lightroom and I’m still supremely happy with it.
A month or so ago I suggested to a couple of friends that we should start a Lightroom User Group. This idea got a turbo-boost when I ran into two developers from the Lightroom team that work in the Adobe office in Minneapolis. It turns out that the Twin Cities is just a great place to do Lightroom stuff!
Tonight MinneLightroom is officially launched! I have no idea how much uptake this will get. We are going to work with folks at Adobe and the Twin Cities Photoshop User Group to get the word out. I’m hoping that we can get some momentum and have a group of fun photography people to discuss how to use Lightroom the best!
Helping my brother-in-law get Parallels setup on his MacBook.
Listening to John Prine on the drive in this morning.
Got first run at MinneLightroom website up and running.
Upset that the Amstel Gold cycling race got 2 hours, while Paris-Roubaix got 1 hour.
Pouting after Jim hurt my feelings.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Wife “green lit” several consumer electronics things. What the hell is going on?
Just registered c12free.com.
Happy Dog!
American Craft Show 2007
We went to the American Craft Council Craft Show in the River Centre in St. Paul today. We missed it last year which was a big bummer since Bill Hickman was there, and we have a number of his pieces. This year the show seemed larger than it has been in previous years, and the attendance was really good especially when you consider it was $12 a person just to get in and look at things. Some of the stuff that really caught our eye was…
It was a great show, even with the entrance fee. We’ll definitely go again next year.
Wanting something…
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Mr. Mom Weekend Wrap!
I’m late writing my wrap-up post from the 5-day Mr. Mom Weekend adventure. Mazie and I spent our final day with Aunt Alona and went to the Minnesota Zoo. It was a lot of fun and Mazie was definitely liking the zoo a lot more than ever before. She just stared at the Dolphins during their entire show mesmerized. It was really cool. We had lunch at the zoo and then went home.
Aunt Alona hung out with us for a little while and then took off. We just stayed around the house the rest of the afternoon and then Tammy surprised us by calling around 6p with news that she was only about an hour away. I was expecting her closer to 10p. It was nice that she got home earlier and we got to catch up before the week began.
The Mr. Mom Weekend was really a great time. The most stressful thing was really taking care of a puppy for the first time ever. Mazie and I had a really good time. Tammy is talking about taking an extended weekend trip like this every year now, and I think that is a cool idea. We all made it through the other end of the time in great shape!
Mr. Mom Weekend via Twitter
I’ve been a bit enamored with Twitter for a bit now. Mr. Mom Weekend was a great time to do some “tweeting”. For posterity sake, here is the Twitter stream from the Mr. Mom Weekend.
Per the last line there, her diaper was fine. She just took a really long time to go to sleep.
Highrise: CRM for Home?
I realize that I’m probably on the verge (or well past the point) of being considered a 37 Signals “fanboi”. I’ve written already about how much I like Backpack. I still use it every single day, it’s one of very few things I pay a monthly fee for and never regret it. It is my homepage on all my personal computers. A few weeks ago when I started seeing some of the early information on Highrise I was rather dismissive of it. It seemed like a streamlined, “kiss” version of Salesforce.com. I figure I didn’t have a need for this – unlike the knob. (Note, CRM in the title here is Customer Relationship Management.)
I started using Highrise just to see what it did and explore how the 37 Signals team had built it. It’s a great application, incredibly and simply designed. I’d encourage anyone that builds web applications to check it out just to experience the user interface. I decided to give it a go for my “personal business”. Things like tax preparation with the accountant, projects being done at the house, etc. I warmed slowly to it, and am really liking it now. Highrise has some great features that make it useful even in solo mode, with only me using it. I never would have thought this type of function would be that useful for personal purposes, but it’s pretty nice.
On a side note, I can totally see how a company of 100 or fewer employees would really benefit from Highrise. In fact, the combination of Highrise (customer, vendor management), Basecamp (project management) and Campfire (distributed meetings) fill out most of what a small- to medium-sized company would need for collaboration.
Installed GPS application Spot on my BlackBerry and recorded GPS location for first time.
Watching Tour of Flanders on TiVo.
just installed the newly released Opera Browser on the Nintendo Wii and twittering from it!
Happy to be alive after morning cab ride in Manhattan! Ther driver kept falling asleep while we were going down the road!
Wondering if Jim has had coffee.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.