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On the morning of the first Saturday of September, my weekly visit to local garage sales was interrupted when Vehicle 1 failed to notice that Vehicle 2 had (eventually) yielded to the pedestrian in the marked crosswalk. Covered with a blanket, lying fetal on 65th’s warm asphalt, one of my first thoughts was, “Thank God, nobody was hurt.” Fragments of First Aid training courses ricocheted in my head as the crowd gathered. Shock. Adrenaline. Heart pounding. Leg throbbing. Not a cloud in the sky. We were all making way too much of the whole thing—I just needed another minute to catch my breath.

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UPS came at around 7:30 last night, delivering a brand new 2009 2.66 GHz Mac Pro Quad from B&H. (Buying last year’s model from out of state saves a bundle and offers the usual AppleCare.) I’m tracking the other components–12GB (3x4GB) DDR3 ECC PC8500 1066MHz SDRAM, a 120GB Mercury Extreme Pro 2.5″ SATA SSD, and an ATI Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Upgrade Kit for Mac Pro. Fortunately, I have all of that behind-the-scenes admin that goes along with running a 4-station LAN to keep me occupied.

World of Warcraft has never looked better.

It’s hard to believe that my first blog entry was back in 2003. Keeping my web site and blog on ice doesn’t mean they’ve been off of my radar; it’s a natural byproduct of making myself available to lifestyle changes. I’m still dialing in on a higher purpose.

For this moment, I’m quietly upgrading WP to 3.0.

It’s Monday morning, which means I’ve been spending quality time with my Franklin Planner. I’ve got a lot of deadlines on my calendar this week and really can’t reschedule or postpone many of the other tasks.

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I’ve spent a good portion of the last two days playing around with color calibration issues. I’m using GraytagMacbeth’s Eye-One Match, a Canon 5D, an Apple 20” Cinema Display, an Epson Perfection V500 flatbed scanner, and an Epson Stylus Pro 4800. I’m pretty close to getting the results I’m hoping for, but I’m not quite there. Also, I’m still not confident that the custom color profiles I’ve built will propagate through all of my Adobe Creative Suite applications the way I need them to. I really need to dial this in.

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