It is crazy to think that is one week I have seen more ice and snow than I saw all of last semester in Idaho!
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The Watergate
Nathan looked at the omnious gate. It was a lot bigger than he expected. But then, it was a flood gate and it had to withstand a lot of pressure. It was to big for him to open. He had to find a way to get it open so that he and Sarah could cross through it. He looked at Sarah. She was smiling her really happy smile.
“It won’t work,” Nathan said
Sarah relied still smiling, “of course it will.”
Nathan sighed. He knew it would. It was a bizarre and crazy enough plan that he knew it would work. He looked back from Sarah and into the woods. They were both smiling now. They didn’t go far into the woods before stopping and turning.
“Is this far enough?” Nathan questioned.
“Yeah.”
And there they waited. They waited for a long time.
Night fell and a cool breeze picked up through the woods from Nathan and Sarah lay waiting. The moon was just a sliver in the sky, but it was a wide sliver. It hung over the woods like a grimising smile, as if it knew what would come that night. Nathan started to get worried. He knew that they couldn’t stay out much later, but they needed to get behind the gate. Nathan lay in the grass listening to the gentle sound on of the crickets and the wind.
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Mystery solved
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.