Two Posts In Two Days? He Must Be Bored!

Look, oh look. Another post.

I'm doing more batching today that I didn't get done yesterday because the computers kept crashing. Damn Macs...

An old Mac is a bad Mac.

I've been in the mood a lot recently to work on my portfolio and get some prints made but I just haven't the time. I also want to get my website back online and add a lot of new images to my Flickr account. I also want: to finish detailing my new car, play some Halo, organize my music, file a bunch of paperwork, redo my budget, sell some stuff on eBay, do a couple of photo shoots, do some advertising for ISP, etc.

There's a lot I want to do.

It always seems that I'm working or busy with something else. I need to get my life into a place where I know where I'm going and what I'm doing, but it's a little chaotic right now. I think one of the first major steps will be getting everything finalized here at work. I think that once it slows down and I don't have 5,000 things to do, I'll be able (mentally) to focus on personal things. Once I get there, I can start planning out the next couple of months as far as how I want to use my time, spend (or not spend) my money, and a whole load of other stuff.

But I'm not complaining. I'm happy! Really, I am. I'm happier then I've ever been, I just feel exhausted some days (again, mentally). The OCD likes to kick in which doesn't help with all the busyness.

Blah.

Still batching. I have two more batches to run after these two. I've already had two crashes today as well.

At Work... and Batching

One of the things that sucks about working on a mass photo edit is te batch times. A large edit can take up to two to three hours to batch. Now, imagine that I have three orders to batch and you can just about see where I'm going with this.

It only take about 10 minutes or so to set up the batch. I'm running two computers which leaves me with nothing that I can do. There is obviously more work to do, but these batches have to get done today, and they may be the only thing that gets done.

And just now one of the computers crashed, so I have to start over on that batch. I wouldn't mind it at all if it was the only thing I had to do, but I've got about 20 other jobs on my list and it kind of feels like I'm just wasting time here.

Boo...

I could clean the studio or the office, but both are in fairly good shape as it is. This is why I'm blogging; because I can't do much of anything else.

There is a post coming soon that will appear before this one about some things that I have yet to talk about, so look for that in the next couple of days (it's about my new car).

Spinning in my chair is kinda fun...

A Post... NO WAY!!!

Since I'm batching a whole bunch of photos right now at work, I thought I'd take this time and write a little in this long forgotten blog of mine.

I've been meaning to write some things for a while now, but where is the time? That seems to be the thing right now in my life; I'm too friggin' busy. A lot has been going on, so much so that I don't think I can remember it all.

The biggest thing, well, ALMOST the biggest thing ;o) ... I got a new car! I know... FINALLY. I know all you people out there were Winona haters, but she was a good car to me. Sure, she had problems. A LOT of problems, but she got me from point "A" to point "B" almost always. I have to thank her for that. She is gone now, but not fogotten.

I'd like everyone to meet Donut (before the "blue spider"... wink wink, nudge nudge). This is my new car! w00t! He's a 1998 Honda CR-V LX. The history on this guy is that he had one previous owner who took pretty good care of him; regular mantinence, garage kept, low mileage, and so on. The original tag was $9,995.00 but I was able to talk them down to $7,700.00. I put $1,500.00 down and my monthly payments end up around $190.00. Not too bad. The car is in great shape and drives amazingly well. I've never had a car this nice.

I'm in the process of restoring the paint job to near perfect condition. It's not a hard process, but it takes a little time, and cooperating weather. I got the hood done in a little over an hour, but the entire process for the car could take about 4 or 5 hours. You can really tell the difference when you get up close. The feeling is also a big indicator. The "before" feels a little bit like sand-paper and the restored surface feels like glass. It's pretty amazing.

So far most of the miles driven on the new car have been to work and back. I plan on getting some road trips in soon. We went to Indy this past Sunday, watched some football, and had a cookout of sorts. It was a good time and gave me a chance to unwind a little from work and being in Lafayette.

New Laptop

w00t!

We bought ourselves a laptop. $400.00. Not bad. Selling my Powerbook if anyone is interested.

The new laptop is used, but not really. That's why it was so cheap. It's pretty fast and will fit our needs.

More later...