Since I’m in the process of redesigning my work site to be absolutely spare, I’ll be posting my latest work here: I also worked on about five web site templates for four authors and a new urban fantasy series called Terran Realm. Just another tiny little ding in my to do lists. One of the authors isn’t ready to launch her new site yet, but I thought I’d give a sneak peek at what I’ve done for her—a custom illustration…
I haven’t updated my work site in a while and probably won’t be doing so for a while yet, as I need to rethink its presentation. H.E. doesn’t think I should display my latest work on there; instead, I should pick 10 of my best pieces and display those only. As if I could determine on my own which 10 of the hundreds that I’ve done actually look decent. And I can’t. Even if I stick with choosing among my…
…are about nil. It doesn’t change how people often expect me to read their minds anyway. I don’t know what that’s about—though if I could read minds, I’m sure I would know. In my line of work, I’m forced to try to develop some mind reading skills, and when I’m on my game, I need only a word, an image, a look, or a gesture, and I know exactly what people want from me. I am, however, very rarely on…
At this moment, I’m installing Adobe’s Creative Suite onto my new Mac Mini, and while that’s happening, I’m on my PC and writing here. My KVM switch is now very happy to be so simultaneously occupied, and I am so happy in a stunned I-can’t-believe-it way to have a PC and a Mac that are both truly mine. The hand-me-downs before these two computers were like orphan children I’d adopted, and while I loved them and helped them realize their…
My 7-year-old blue and white Mac G3’s been down since last week. I can’t get it to boot, and the hard drive is gagging and coughing with awful retching sounds. Last time it was sick, it was the video card. I could tell because the computer was on, but the monitor showed nothing. So I bought an old G3 from my old day job and swapped video cards, and voila, the Mac was all better again. This time, though, I’m…