I swear Christmas or “the holiday season” used to be more, well… *holidayee*. There used to be snow on the ground, a white Christmas wasn’t a myth or a heightened expectation, it was something that actually occurred. So now this phenomenon called snow is replaced with salty sidewalks and bitter-cold days, and I’m left wondering how I actually made all those snow forts when I was a kid. I remember going on my GT snow racer almost every day. Not just in February, which seems to be our real “winter” now, but over the Christmas holidays.

I know we’re not there yet, but I’ve already got a feeling like we should be pushing the season back a month and a half, just tip the calendar a bit because I think it’s off.

I’m curious as to what monitor type/profile most people are using. I know there are certain *standards*, but I like to think that most people have a higher resolution monitor (something that isn’t set to 800×600), around 17″. I used to work off that, but I had to go back to my 15″ LCD, and I’ll tell you, it makes workflow pretty difficult. Photoshop tools take up half a screen really leaving very little photo to view and edit. Then I start to think, well how big is too big for a final output. 900 pixels wide? 800 pixels wide? These seem to be a bit of a standard. I’d like to give you as much picture as I can without making you scroll through to another dimension.

Anyway, I’ve just picked this up, so the space isn’t a concern anymore for me.

Two pink pictures back to back? I must really be digging.

Today I saw one of the nicest sunset’s I’ve seen in years. I was itching to take a photo of it but 1. I didn’t have my camera, and 2. I live in the big city, on a low part of it, so my sunset would be full of buildings and wires and shit. Not to say that some people can’t do that well, I’m just saying I haven’t found good way to do it in my neighbourhood.

My office roomie Janet (whose birthday party I’m going to tonight, *yay!*) and I went for a relaxing walk behind the Hospital a few weeks back. It was good, it’s nice out there, trees, dogs, I should do it more often. There’s not a lot of office workers who have access to acres of unspoiled land.