October 2008 Archives

Man, what a week. It started off with my wife and kids getting t-boned in an intersection at home. View some photos of the carnage. I was in Baltimore, speaking at the PSDA Print Conference, the day before Graph.

I am in Baltimore to present a the PSDA Print Solutions conference today, and fly to Chicago tonight to speak at Graph Expo. I got to Baltimore yesterday, and was horrified to learn at the end of the day that My wife, Rori, and three sons were involved in a car accident. They were T-boned by a driver who failed to stop at a stop sign. The impact was Rori's door, and airbags were deployed. Thankfully, everyone was properly buckled, and despite the bruises from the straps, no major injury is apparent yet.

AJ, my 13-year-old son who codes Flex and writes AIR apps, needed to do a school project with some classmates over a long weekend. Since the kids can't drive, and we live in a town that is geographically large, we needed a way for these kids to get together and work on their PowerPoint. Dad's Connect Pro account to the rescue!

US Airways put me up in a Clarion that should have been renovated (or closed!) about 5 years ago. The restaurant host won't take an order, the Lodgenet had been removed from the TV, and the "smoke free" room reeks of Febreeze.

Well, here I sit, stuck in Birmingham after a maintenance delay kept my plane from arriving on time to make a connection. At least there's barbecue.

I've been using CS4 now for a couple of months, and it really makes me happy to be in the graphics business. Flash alone is worth the money, but to get InDesign and the rest of the package is just icing on the cake. 

We put up the Sukkah this weekend. I built it three years ago at the request of the Shul, whose Sukkah had finally given up the ghost. We decided that we wanted a more rugged and larger structure, one that everyone could fit in. We decided on 4 x 8 panels arranged in a rectangle against the kitchen wall of the Shul. 14 of them. Creating a 16 x 28 space. With exterior door.