An unnecessary hurdle

Today I was happily working away in Adobe InDesign creating a sign for an artist in San Francisco. Happily, until I tried to edit the original image. It's a simple sign, featuring a painting series synopsis and a photograph of the artist. The image I was using for placement until I receive the hi-res image had some text that was drawing attention away from my design. I thought I'd hop into Photoshop and clear it right up, so I did this:

With a simple right click on the image, I selected Edit Original.

Then this happened:

Do you see that? Do you see that my image, the image I wanted to EDIT, opened in Preview. PREVIEW! Preview. I was stunned. Irate! So annoyed. Why in the world would ADOBE InDesign open an image in Apple's Preview? Wouldn't you expect it to open it in, let me think, um, ADOBE PHOTOSHOP? Yes, I would think it would open in Adobe Photoshop. But it didn't. Instead, I had to go and open Photoshop, open the image, edit it, save it, go back to InDesign, select the image, open the Links palette, and choose Update Link. Instead of the three steps I had originally planned for there were eight. So thank you Adobe InDesign for adding useless steps, making my design take longer and just generally making my workday more challenging. That's great.

Another puppy party

This new party member is Shady Thompson. She's an 8 year old pit bull mix and is always up for a treat or some serious back-scratching! Shady comes over a lot and likes to think she rules the roost so Henry and she have disagreements from time to time. But Shady still likes to come over and have marrow bones with her friends.

Should I get his opinion before I buy the fabric?

This weekend my friend Jane and I scoped out some good garage sales (and then bought over a dozen donuts which were devoured in the blink of an eye). I scored some nicely shaped terracotta pots.

A new jar is always useful. I like to keep a few varieties of rice on hand and my basmati just didn't have a perfect home, problem solved.

I also got this fun sterling silver star necklace.

But the best part of all is that I came home with this wonderful chair.

I love the shape and I can't wait to recover it! I'm thinking about something like this...

The blue works in the bedroom, the red works in the living room and the print, well the print works with me! How cute would that 50s shape look with big popping flowers? What do you think?

40˚F, raining and sleeting?

Not here! My dad was not pleased to hear that it was 80˚F and sunny here yesterday. He and my mom were sitting inside wearing long-sleeved shirts watching snow fall at the Penn State game while I wandered around my backyard in sunglasses, flip flops and a tank top. But while we were talking, the fog started to roll in off the ocean. I shot some time lapse video to prove to him it didn't stay perfect all day, it eventually got to 72˚F and foggy.

This week's good stuff

I love the internet and the internet loves me. I read all sorts of things and these are my favorite finds from this week.

This week's selection of the internet is video only. And first I start with this amazing man, Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic savant who loves to draw.

Next we move on to this hilarious wedding video, it starts slow but it's worth the wait. And I'd also like to say that this guy can move!

High five to Nathaniel Kassel for making this funny video. (via Laughing Squid)

And finally, this video is of my nephews and their friends doing basketball trick shots. I could watch it all day, it makes me laugh and smile. But the funniest part is that I can peruse my sister's pantry as if I were there looking for a snack.