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bug babble.

Another round-up of stuff on the Interwebs

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Things that are useful for work:

  • What goes into a well-done critique? is a good article on improving critiquing skills by Jared Spool
  • Where the buck stops is an article about collaboration among designers — where it can succeed, but mostly how forcing it causes failure. There’s a whole slew of management-types I know who should read this.

Things that are interesting to read:

Things that are just funny:

Not the beach, but nice.

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I took a 3 mile walk today.

I walked Kaylee one mile and Chance two. Kaylee was way too fluffy and hot to walk two miles. But that’s neither here nor there.

It was the first real workout I’d done in days, and it confirmed something I’d suspected but not proved: I need to exercise now. I’ve had a he’ll of a time getting to sleep these last few nights, and couldn’t find a reason. Wasn’t caffeine – my usage is down. Wasn’t stress. Stress usually makes me tired faster. Today confirmed it was plain old boring not-enough-exercise.

So why am I writing this now if I’m finally tired? Because there’s a whopper of a thunderstorm wrecking my neighborhood right now and nothing knocks you out of the first stages of a good sleep like a sonic boom in your backyard.

Instead, I’m watching the storm from the foot of the bed. The bed is soft, the storm is fascinating to watch, and the whole thing reminds me of our last stay at Virginia Beach. Granted, This isn’t the 11th floor and there’s no ocean out my window…

…but I was content with everything in my life that day. In a different way, I’m content with everything tonight.

An update on us…

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Nighthawk is home from the hospital, as of yesterday. He’s still not 100% and we don’t know when he’s going back to work yet, but just having him healthy enough to come home is a great improvement over where we were 2 weeks ago.

We’re both exhausted, but on the mend. I took yesterday and today off to help us get life back in order… and to spend some time with this guy I’ve missed for the past week :) It’s a good thing I took yesterday off, too, because we thought he’d be discharged from the hospital in the morning and it was mid-afternoon before we were finally free to go. Ah, hospitals.

Anyway, the plan is to get the comic rolling again and stuff, so the period of radio silence should be over. Thank you all for your good wishes and your patience.