July 2008 Observations

Thoughts for the day:

Kari continues to grow closer to her MacBook.  Yeah!

I told her this morning that after nearly 10 months with mine, I'm still learning something new every day about my Mac.  Sunday I bought Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac, the Missing Manual, (Wow, if you don't want to buy the book, buy a pdf of the key pages here)  and my gosh, this is really a great book.  It's such a good manual, I don't feel like I'm reading a manual, I feel like I'm in a treasure book and the book is a map to undisclosed treasures.  If you're working in the new version of Elements and lucky to have a Mac, get this book.  It's great.

The twins' birthday is coming up and we're working on gifts for them.  (Girls, if you're reading, we'd like to get each of you a MacBook, too, but unless dad gets a substantial raise in the next few days, it won't happen).

I feel an incredible sense of peace over me lately.  I'm truly enjoying each new day more and more.

I can't believe we are into July already.  Christmas will be here in a flash.  Can hardly wait.

Kari and I are traveling together to NYC, Baltimore and DC in a few weeks.  She's never been there before so I'm looking forward to being her tour guide.  Of course, I have a ton of work to do in each city, so that will be a challenge.