Every once in a while, someone creates a graphical representation which captures one of life’s many complexities in the most simple and elegant of ways. Here is one of them. I don’t know who the author is except that it came to me via my buddy Gary DeSomber who always finds a way to send me at least one email a day that brings a smile to my face.
Beautiful.
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Guess whose illustration made the May cover of a national magazine? Mine!
I’m quite sure there isn’t much Stephen Moore/Newsmax and I share in common as far as politics goes but hey, it’s not every day I get to do the cover art for a magazine – conservative or otherwise.
As a bonus, the people at Newsmax were a pleasure to work with which is always nice when working a deadline with a client.
Alright, going out now to purchase a few dozen copies of the mag.
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(The image of Michelle Obama is a Creative Commons licensed photograph by the US Department of Labor with rights to distribute and adapt the work. The image of Barack Obama is a Creative Commons photograph under the same terms.)
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The site is in the process of being moved over to a new (and dedicated!) server which means that sometime between now and the next 72 hours you might experience trouble accessing the site for a brief period. I’m told the transfer over should be seamless but I have my doubts. Fifteen years working as an IT systems analyst has taught me that few things in this biz are seamless. We shall see.
Happy Thursday.
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Taking one more day of R&R to help with the burnout I think I’m experiencing. Should be back on track Tuesday. I haven’t watched a news program or read a political story in the last three days. A quick browse this morning through a few of my favorite news sites indicates that I haven’t missed a thing so I’ll spend the rest of the day playing with the latest Photoshop release.
Later.
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Bad news:
Laptop crashed last night and in an instant my world became a dark, empty place. As I reflect on it, I’m not sure if the bad news is the loss of my beloved laptop or the fact that I would even think of writing that my world became dark and empty without a box of plastic and metal at my disposal. Both are equally bad and depressing, I think.
The truth is that being able to connect to the world in a flash has become an integral part of my life. We had a storm in the area a few weeks back and we lost power for about 3 hours. The first couple of hours were painfully long as I kept on hitting the light switch every few minutes as if my doing so would somehow return power quicker. I finally resigned myself to the sad truth that I had little no control over the gods of electricity (Thor? Edison?) so I made myself a cup of tea, picked up a book I’d been reading off and on for the last week and sat outside with the dog. Smart move. I made the conscience decision that the work projects I had going as well as this blog…the whole world, dammit!…could wait.
And so they did.
Good news:
My world won’t be dark and empty for long (it never really was…well, maybe a little.) I’m purchasing a new laptop. I was planning on getting one eventually so it’s just going to have to be sooner instead of later. The drag is getting the new one up to speed. I have a dozen must-have apps that need to get on it immediately and have to move about 200 GB of data from my backup drives to the new machine.
All that to say that I’ll probably be posting a little less than usual as I try to juggle work projects, the blog and setting up my new laptop in the next couple of days. And thank you to Joyce for the loaner I’m writing on right now. I owe you one.
Ok, so let’s see, if 1200 people each donate $1…
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