I could have benefited from a to-do or will-do list yesterday. Instead I just went with it. The result: A relaxing but much less productive Saturday than I had hoped for. I’m sure I would’ve made better use yesterday’s time if I had resisted the urge to just go with it, but I’m also very [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Easy? Fail. Score!
Posted: 26th January 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe IllustratorTags: Fail, Illustrator, Pickup, Score, Shape Builder, Spiral, Vehicle
Sometimes easy is hard If you start your vehicle and go back in the house, you should either return to your vehicle and travel someplace, or just shut the thing off. Easy. For the second time in three weeks, I let the pickup run through the night. Fail. But despite my inadequacies and mishaps, good [...]
An Uncle’s Perspective
Posted: 23rd January 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe IllustratorTags: Adobe, Baby, Family, Illustrator, Niece, Noob, Perspective, Uncle, Undo
Someday when I have a kid, a well-meaning but inexperienced relative is going to make my infant get all bothered. I’ll swoop in to save the day, super daddy coming to soothe the squirming ball of angst. Up until this weekend, whenever I would hold a niece or nephew and they got the slightest bit [...]
The first application of yesterday’s revelations
Posted: 17th January 2012 by Alex Amiot in Adobe IllustratorTags: Adobe, Brush, Forget, Gradient, Illustrator, Life, Milk, Yesterday
Ever find yourself making the same mistake twice? You learned something yesterday that you were unable to apply to life today? I recently left a gallon of milk on the counter overnight. My wife discovered it in the morning. The milk had gone bad. Not too long after that, I woke to find that I [...]
