jasonweaver

Here it is a little over a month after the birth of Sydnie and well… it’s been filled with a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

Most of the time we don’t really get enough sleep but we’re trying to get the little barracuda into a good sleep cycle. For now 4am seems to be her bedtime. I give the wife a night off here and there but with work and freelancing it’s difficult to do that on a regular basis. It’s really rewarding to see your wife after she’s had a proper sleep cycle. Happy wife. Happy life.

Sienna was apprehensive at first. Not knowing what to think. We would talk about Sydnie during the pregnancy to try and ease the shock a little but I’m not sure it helped. She was very attention starved turning up the annoying about two fold. In a humorous moment she mentioned that she would like Grandma to take Sydnie home when she leaves. I guess she was feeling a little left out.

All and all it’s been a lot of fun having the wife home on leave. She has a few more weeks left and then it’s Daddy day care all over again.

I’ve decided to get an office. There’s nothing like a bunch of creative individuals working in the same place all feeding off of one another. Ideas can happen. I’m looking forward to that.

I met the guys at The Creative Space back in January when I attended Design Camp and really enjoyed the atmosphere and fresh perspective . I’m excited to get to work with so many talented people and hope the next 12 months brings value to my craft.

I’m also attending The Big (D)esign Conference in Dallas on May 30th. Hope I meet some cool people.

Sienna is already three and we’re waiting the arrival of our second girl. The pregnancy has seemed to fly by. Now here we are about to pack up for another few days in the hospital.

I’ll be updating on my Twitter profile for anybody who would like to follow what’s happening the next few days.

I love my girls.

South African’s seem to have a knack for producing gamey style reds and mineral driven whites. Most of the red blends are big and flavorful with smoke and gamey meat flavors that tend to have bundles of character. My first impression of the red line up at a recent tasting was that of dislike. Many were just too much for my palate to hold any sort of objective pondering and I felt blasted with the same wild game flavor as I tasted through the lineup. But, all that said, I think having one of these jumbo reds with a South African game feast would probably be truly transcendental.
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Using Opera’s browser on a Macintosh, you can view full screen and use shift+arrow keys to tab through links. I find this very useful while using a laptop. (Using the mouse pad can really piss me off.)

While in full screen mode you can use alt+D to get a tiny navigation bar pop up for typing in a new address. I usually type in the name of the website and use the keyboard shortcut command+return to fill in the www. and .com. For navigating back and forward use command+brackets([ ]). It takes a while to get used to it but once you’ve done it a few times it really gets addicting.

I really like browsing the web with Opera using keyboard shortcuts. For more information check out the Use Opera without a mouse tutorial at the Opera website.

Now you can teach your friends the way of the mighty Opera browser.