Flickr: Discussing Evening Waterfall Walk for Tuesday June 24th at 6 pm in Hamilton: The City of Waterfalls

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Flickr: Discussing Evening Waterfall Walk for Tuesday June 24th at 6 pm in Hamilton: The City of Waterfalls

The plan is to meet at Devils Punch Bowl and then drive to Felker Falls. Ending up at Albion and Buttermilk Falls. The order has been picked to allow the Sun to get low enough for Albion Falls not to wash out. All the falls are within 2 minute walks from there parking lots. Even if you have photographed some of them before I am sure we can give you a new angle to shoot from.

Vinyl is fun

Here's a great video:

Flickr Photo Download: Scenic Drive Panorama

I have been enjoying photographing the geography around our (temporary) new home. Hamilton, Ontario is situated right on the Niagara Escarpment. It really creates for some beautiful panoramas.

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Upgrade Fatigue and the Human Condition

One minute I feel pretty good about myself and who I am as an individual. The next minute there is some sort of an upgrade and I feel like I have been living under a rock for the last decade. I am getting old--that's the only rational explanation. I'm sure it couldn't be I spend 40% of my waking hours trying to learn some new and improved something-or-other.

I was trying to write a blog post talking about how I am always positively charged when I think about my friends and aquaintences. I was going to write about how at one point in my life I was insanely jealous of others who have greater talent than I, being art, music, etc. I was going to ramble on about how now I appreciate their expertise and love to see how others view their world and develop in their interests. But instead I had to upgrade blogger using an account I knew I set up who-knows-when. After 10 minutes of trying every combination of password and username I could remember using--something worked. Now I have to vent instead of posting some heart-felt sentiment about how great it is to be alive.

Just think, people are being killed right now in Africa for water and I have to try to remember a username and password.

I am really bothered by my own ignorance.

HTML HELL

Once upon a time I would have said that I understood and could work in HTML. I have a few website designs under my belt, but a lot has changed since Dreamweaver 2.0.

I don't work with website development at work and whatever knowledge I had has either become obsolete of forgotten.

I am trying to remove some of the old cobwebs and get up to snuff. If all works out well. You should be able to see a picture of my middle son.




If not, I will have to work a little harder.

Feel the buzz!

As you may or may not know, my wife, Christina is a fourth year doctoral student in clinical psychology. Next year she will have her year long internship. This means that the likelihood of us moving is very great. I have a position with a great company that I would hate to lose. The owners of the company have shared their concerns about me leaving as well.

I have been dreading the idea of moving and having to find a new job, especially because I know I would not be able to walk into a position like the one I have now.

I have been putting together a plan for creating a branch office if the need to move arises. I have been working on figuring out Windows Messenger and Outlook and any other resources that would be needed for sharing between branch offices. This may not be a big deal to most, but until today my mind was set that it was too daunting a task to be feasible. I am buzzing with excitement to realize how simple and inexpensive it would be to open a new branch office.

I am blown away by all these tools that have been under my nose for years but I never took the time to examine their potential. Being that Windows Messenger is an integral part of Windows and the fact that I have never taken advantage of it is sad. We are not a big company, but we are rapidly growing. It wasn't that long ago that the idea of paying for broadband internet connection was a luxury and not a necessity. When the company started out we were a screen name on one of the owner's AOL account and artwork was printed out and driven across town. Now we are server based with large capacity tape back-up using a cable internet connection. The majority of our artwork is sent in .pdf form and we sell a lot of jobs without meeting the customer in person.

I'm sure that these are experiences seem elementary to folks that work for enterprise level companies, but for a couple of guys who had an idea about starting a company in the midst of a recession this is a real milestone. We have hired our 30th fulltime employee and we exceeded our sales for last year with an entire quarter to go.

It has been a process of taking one step, looking around to see if it ok to take another step and then cautiously putting our foot forward. I get a sense that we are getting to tak a huge step forward and I could not be anymore excited about it.

Ramble1

Well, where do I begin. It is my first full day of vacation and I am still waiting for the divine inspiration to clean my garage. Instead I have profiled my new printer (Epson R340) and I have made some incredible prints. I would have preferred the 2400 but money was the determining factor--since I don't have any I had to get the cheap one. I really like the control Epson gives in their print driver. I can use my color management software to create custom profiles. My only problem is that I am stuck to the 8.5" width. I am used to printing up to 60" at work and these small home printers are, well, small.

I am spending the evening with my little boy, Zoe, Allison Krause on the iPod connected to the Grado headphones, and Johnnie Walker Black in my glass. I guess that equation adds up to a good evening.

Zoe is our oldest kitty. The fine folks at the Humane Society mistook Zoe as a girl when we adopted him. It took the keen eyes of the pros at the Vet's office to discover that Zoe was a boy (I guess he takes after his dad afterall). We decided to keep the name anyway. Zoe is just short for Zoseph. He is the world's best kitty, end of story.

I guess I will cut this post off here. I could get into a whole world of pilosophy, mood, and social commentary but it may be better to get into all that later.