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living la vida ermitaña
May. 18th, 2007 08:26drove the paramour to the victoria airport on wednesday. had looked forward to spending some time in victoria afterwards, trawling used bookstores. but right after the paramour went through security, my GI tract decided to go seriously wonky on me, and i went home with rather too many stops on the way. </TMI>
since then i've been enjoying the hermit life (the GI tract calmed down later in the evening). it's so quiet! not like the paramour is noisy, or even annoying (most of the time, *grin*), but there's just a different quality to a house that's empty of any other human. i really like being by myself.
this time i have no plans for doing anything in specific. it's just for 3 weeks anyway, but i've also been unhappy with the lack of follow-through on prior plans, and the easiest way to handle that is ... right; making no plans at all. i'll call it "vacation".
yesterday i spent all day fiddling with the new printer, calibrating it to output as much as possible what i see after editing my images in photoshop. originally it had a somewhat purple cast in the blues that was making me a little unhappy. professionals do this with colour calibration hardware; cheap schnorrers like me eyeball it. i gotta say, the latest prints on matte photo paper look really good though; it was worth the trouble.
i'm also, once again, looking at low-end image management software; that's what i'll be doing today. for the mac this time. i'm eyeing extensis portfolio, iview pro, and photos 4.1 -- if anyone has experience with either of those, or something else that doesn't cost several bodily appendages, feel free to share.
since then i've been enjoying the hermit life (the GI tract calmed down later in the evening). it's so quiet! not like the paramour is noisy, or even annoying (most of the time, *grin*), but there's just a different quality to a house that's empty of any other human. i really like being by myself.
this time i have no plans for doing anything in specific. it's just for 3 weeks anyway, but i've also been unhappy with the lack of follow-through on prior plans, and the easiest way to handle that is ... right; making no plans at all. i'll call it "vacation".
yesterday i spent all day fiddling with the new printer, calibrating it to output as much as possible what i see after editing my images in photoshop. originally it had a somewhat purple cast in the blues that was making me a little unhappy. professionals do this with colour calibration hardware; cheap schnorrers like me eyeball it. i gotta say, the latest prints on matte photo paper look really good though; it was worth the trouble.
i'm also, once again, looking at low-end image management software; that's what i'll be doing today. for the mac this time. i'm eyeing extensis portfolio, iview pro, and photos 4.1 -- if anyone has experience with either of those, or something else that doesn't cost several bodily appendages, feel free to share.
