I’ve noticed that the month of May has flown by quickly. No television was my goal. We watched a few movies – about one every other week. Since I’ve dropped TV, I picked up drawing, photography, photoshopping, flickr networking, more blogging and getting closer to my wife and kids.
Tonight I go to a pizza place [...]
Ok. So I suck at photoshop. The latest few flickr photos show my shame. But this is interesting – it gives me an opportunity. I could either say “eww, this is too embarrassing” and give up on making fantasy photoshop shots or I could say “eww, this isn’t what I wanted” and keep trying until [...]
Years ago, half my life away, I wrote poetry and music regularly. They even won contests. Even though the poetry itself is backed up on some dusty floppy disk, the creative swarms are lost along with most of the colorful friends I had at the time. One activity I was engrossed in, and what helped [...]
Not too long ago I spoke with someone I work for. During which it was basically said that I wasn’t creative, that I didn’t like change and that my strength rested in creating analytical algorithms. Two weeks later I was repositioned in the company. The new position essentially removes analytical algorithm development from the list. [...]