Toasting It....

The hard drive is a burning. I set stuff to render and come back hours later only to find its not done yet. But its ok I found a way to pass the time. Digging. I dug a trench from the driveway to the back yard where there will soon be my own custom drainage pond. If I could only find some bentonite. funny thing is I started emptying the water barrels and watching the water flow only to find it not only doesnt go to the end but disappears into the nothingness. Nothingness is a synonym for gopher hole. 150 gallons sucked up by gophers. Made me made so I started excavating the tunnel and found that it goes the distance of the house plus more into the neighbors lot. Ugh.
Illustrator and Arcmap. A match made in heaven. My first combo print that turned out to be so high res that I completely lost my schist. Note my unorthodox hillshading from the SE.

Reedumacation....

Well I have been wanting to learn some cool things lately, and with the mapping things kinda oozing under the door I figured I better relearn Illustrator. I found this rad 30 day tutorial to learn the basics. Since I tried some other mini tutorials and only got to the 4th word before hanging it up and going to bed, I figured this is a great place to start. And it is.

The other day I was eating breakfast at the airport and found myself surrounded by beer and tequila paraphernalia. I was admiring the beer labels and how they differ. Then it hit me, I should make a Geographics Intl label to throw on my maps as a source label. I drew it out and now am learning tracing and everything else. Pretty stoked I am.
Not stoked about the headache I have had for the last week, lingering. Better go play in the rain or something.