Mac Addict

I’d been planning on working on another website design this weekend but I’m forced to stay away from my beautiful G5 for a while. I absolutely dislike having to cut off the power cord cold turkey but I guess my body is warning me to take things slow. I’m having trouble focusing on the screen for three days in a row now.

My right eye has a disturbed vision that contains unformed black and white flashes like a cool artistic graphic moire trompe-l’œil. Unfortunately the immediate effect is not so cool and follows in the shape of an interesting migraine. It’s always amazing to see how life seems to catch up on you if you try to fool yourself into something.

The migraine is bad timing, I’d also planned to do a clean install on my Mac. It’s going to take me at least three days to install each application that I’m using. I’ve adjusted so many settings and prefs. Designed and added brush sets for Photoshop and Illustrator that I’ll need to import all of these again after the installation.

Something I never look forward to because I end up looking for stuff for days, screening all back-ups for brush sets, settings and preferences. Time that I need to use to design instead of getting my machine ready to work for me. But I have had a few kernels and crashes this month telling me that something needs to be done.

It has to wait for now though, I’m gonna quit the Mac addiction for the moment and try to give my eyes and head a welcome break… Let’s see how long I can keep it up *hehe*.

© Christoffel Pierson 1631-1714

Syntax Overdrive

I’m tired… because I have been working till 05.00 in the morning three days in a row. I’m coding a form that needs to send and retrieve data from a database from within a secure CMS and I’m this *showing about 2mm between thumb and index to you* close to getting it to work… *aargh* The problem is that somehow jQuery/Ajax is not triggered or the database is not triggered and I really really really don’t like debugging. I’m obsessed now with solving the problem because I’m so close and such a determined stubborn goat.

I don’t mind coding but when I get like this it just reminds me again why I am a designer: it’s safer for me because I don’t spend that many nights in obsessed-work-mode getting five hours of sleep or less. Nor does my brain go into overdrive not knowing where the breaks are, seeing endless lines of syntax in my thoughts and looking for solutions. Today I’ll focus on the design again, it’s instant result which is what I’m in desperate need of at the moment and a codeine for my triggered-by-a-lack-of-sleep headache.

Time to be good to me: a break and a Thai noodle soup…

Yes I heard some of you dearies out there but you know what I’m like… *hehe* thanks for your concern!