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Later

19:27 on Friday, September 26, 2003 • Comment

Earlier

In addition to school having started two days ago, I’ve been swamped with domestic projects lately, which is why my writings here have been sporadic at best. My construction projects are coming along swimmingly, though, and I’ll hopefully have them done within a week or so. Accordingly, I’m hoping the rest of my life will return to some semblance of normal around the same time.

I don’t really check my email more than once a day, and just yesterday I found out that the spam filter I enabled on my server has basically been filtering out everything, including some very important correspondence from people I ‘ebayed’ things to a few weeks ago. So I’m sorry to those of you who wrote email and didn’t get a response.

In the hour or so I’ve spent reading blogs over the last week, I feel somewhat vindicated that I’m not the only person AWOL from a blog. In fact, several of my favorites haven’t been touched for a while, and I’m all in favor of taking time off the web for getting corporeal matters (redundant?) in order.

This quarter and next, for some extra money (I’m not taking out loans this year) I’ll be teaching a Photoshop class to some professionals in the area. I’m trying to get them to think of it as a ‘digital imaging’ class, because my problem with Photoshop books is that they don’t teach the basics of digital imaging, the numbers and concepts stuff outside the menus in Photoshop. If I may bitch about ‘the old days’—back when I first started using Photoshop (2.0), there wasn’t an undo, I think, and there weren’t any layers. So you had to do image calculations to get drop shadows and such, and in this way one became very familiar with the values associated with transparency masks. Yeah, so in other words, I used to walk barefoot through three feet of snow every time I opened an image. Anyway, I’m excited to teach Photoshop again, and even more so because the people taking the class are passionate about photography.