Opening Up 2015: Almost Half a Day In
Jan. 1st, 2015 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineIt's cold outside, and the wind's adding its own "voice" to the chill. There's snow winding its way through the Ottawa-Gatineau skies, but barely enough to even notice. Not enough to add to what's on the yards and streets and fields of the cities. The clouds are dominant, but here and there, they thin out enough to remind one what's on the other side of the atmosphere from us at this time of day.
I'm fiddling with Adobe Illustrator, trying to see if I can design something vaguely resembling a police officer's badge right now. On the iTunes "radio" is CBC Radio One for Victoria. The Ottawa feed is rerunning stuff from Q, stuff that I'm not even interested in right now. The reruns on The Current - including an interview with designer Bruce Mau and a self-described cyborg out of Toronto who's got himself rigged to "hear" colour since he can't properly see it - were more interesting by far.
Design.
There's something I want to do more of this year. I'd like to earn more of my honest wages from it. Desire, though, is not resolve. Nor is hope.
And these last couple of years in particular, I've had the growing sense that if I do too much to draw attention to myself on that score, I'll be asking for unwanted and undeserved Trouble.
In answer of the anticipated question: no, I don't know what would constitute "doing too much...on that score". If I did, I could do something useful to remedy that sense of dread.
But I've got a sense that - for today - I don't have to worry about that. No evidence, just intuition. So I'll play with Adobe CS4 for today.
More later on...
I'm fiddling with Adobe Illustrator, trying to see if I can design something vaguely resembling a police officer's badge right now. On the iTunes "radio" is CBC Radio One for Victoria. The Ottawa feed is rerunning stuff from Q, stuff that I'm not even interested in right now. The reruns on The Current - including an interview with designer Bruce Mau and a self-described cyborg out of Toronto who's got himself rigged to "hear" colour since he can't properly see it - were more interesting by far.
Design.
There's something I want to do more of this year. I'd like to earn more of my honest wages from it. Desire, though, is not resolve. Nor is hope.
And these last couple of years in particular, I've had the growing sense that if I do too much to draw attention to myself on that score, I'll be asking for unwanted and undeserved Trouble.
In answer of the anticipated question: no, I don't know what would constitute "doing too much...on that score". If I did, I could do something useful to remedy that sense of dread.
But I've got a sense that - for today - I don't have to worry about that. No evidence, just intuition. So I'll play with Adobe CS4 for today.
More later on...