My first morning in my apartment I notice there was a small puddle of water outside the bath tub. I thought it was just a foot puddle. You know, the puddle that forms when you step out of the shower while you’re still wet. The puddle was there every morning. Then I realized it was there every night. In fact, it was always there. Today, as I flushed the toilet a little twinkle caught my eye. Some water had fallen out of the toilet reservoir and fallen on the ground. After several minutes I found that with each flush a little water escapes the reservoir and lands on the ground. Now I know.
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How do you go back – to break your own rules?
I have a design rule that is rather simple. It goes like this:
“Once I release a work, I can’t go back to it. I must move on. (Okay, you can fix that minor flaw, but one minute tops.)”
It is not that I don’t want to go back, I do. I want to go back so bad. But I realized long ago that I can’t keep going back and move forward at the same time. George Lucas once said:
“Movie are never finished, only abandoned.” And something to the effect that at some point the producer runs out on money and has to release the movie to make money.
But recently I faced a great dilemma. DAES’ changed the religious study card from 3×5 inches to 2.6×5 inches. This small change lets us fit an extra card per print, reduces the cuts from 16 to 12 per sheet and provides beter alignment of the images (less edge cutage). I hate inconsistency for improvements so I started going back to change the older cards to the newer format. I did take liberty to rework a couple of cards that I think were suffering deep down inside with design issues.
Armour of God
The first is the “Armour of God”. The front of the card is the same, and the text on the back is the same. With a little reformatting though it is now much easier to read:
New version 
Old version Glory of the Defense of ZionNext was the dreaded “Glory of the Defense of Zion”. This is a card that I haven’t been very proud of. In fact, I think have given out maybe five of these cards (the initial run). The new card has been redesigned to capture the sense of life’s journey. It features two column of text, instead of one really wide paragraph, with more graphics.
New version 
Original version It is now a card that I feel good about distributing.
So sometimes it is okay, or even good, to go back and revisit released works. I just need to make sure that I don’t spend so much time perfecting them that I don’t push forward with new designs and projects.
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Why I don’t wear pink
I will not eat green eggs and ham.
I will not eat them in a house.
I will not eat them with a mouse.
I will not eat them in a box.
I will not eat them with a fox.
I will not eat them Sam I Am.I will not wear a pink shirt.
I will not wear it in a house.
I will not wear it with a mouse.
I will not wear it in a box.
I will not wear it with a fox.
I will not wear it Crystal Johnson.Okay, but I will wear a pink shirt with a green ham on it.
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Revelations concerning Excel
So I was working late last night getting payroll ready for the latest round. While I was working of the Excel spread a new way of doing the same things struck me. The changes go from:
=IF(ISERROR(INDEX(‘Master Driver Log’!$C$6:$C$93,MATCH($B8&$A$5,’Master Driver Log’!$A$6:$A$93&’Master Driver Log’!$B$6:$B$93,0))),” “,INDEX(‘Master Driver Log’!$C$6:$C$93,MATCH(B8&$A$5,’Master Driver Log’!$A$6:$A$93&’Master Driver Log’!$B$6:$B$93,0)))
repeated 16 times to:
=DSUM(‘Master Driver Log’!$A$4:$L$107,B$9,$L10:$N11)
done once. The new way is definetly much better than the old way. I am glad that the Lord helps me with Excel. The change in code not only makes the formulas easier to follow and troubleshoot but also reduce the total file size by 15%. Okay it is really only 100kb but the changes also make the file process faster.
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Sad day for Elisha
Through the course of life we gather dear friends to us. These friends stick with us through our hard times and best times. They console us when we cry, cheer us when we race, distract us when we nervous and accompany us when we are alone. They are always there for us. They add flavor and color to our lives. Today Elisha decided to day, at least I think. Elisha, my 80gb iPod Photo is no longer working. This time I think it is for real. Before, when he thought about dying, he would show the “sad iPod” icon (
) and his hard drive would spin and skip over and over again. This this I get a “sad folder” icon (
) and the hard drive doesn’t start up. I think this is the end (though I will try him again in a few days). He served as a good friend. He was five years old though, so it wasn’t totally unexpected. I guess this means no music while running, good thing I have nice running earphones. 😕 (that is me smiling and forwning at the same time with a dimple I don’t have on my cheek.)(images courtesy of Apple.com/support/ipod/earlier)