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Sure, we love our toys and gadgets – but we’re tired of all the junk and clutter. Today we started paring down. Sorting. Recycling. Junking. Donating. Selling.

We don’t need two large screen TVs or quite so many DVDs. We’ve already donated 6 bags of old clothes that have been piling up in our closets for the last few years. Boxes have been piling up in our basement that we really should go through one of these days. And what are we doing with all of these now-ancient computer books on our shelves?

I took this photo on a rainy day in San Francisco of Lombard St. last weekend. I took the liberty to take full advantage of the Photoshop CS5 beta to clean it up and remove the majority of the distracting bits (power lines, signs, a few people, etc.). It took a little while and I had to combine different approaches, but I’m really happy with how it turned out.

Before:

After:

I can’t wait for the announcement on Monday. I can legally say now that I was/am a CS5 Photoshop beta tester. I joined late in the program and didn’t have nearly as much time as I would have liked to dedicate to testing, but I’ve been very impressed with the new features.

Here’s a quick example of some possibilities of what you can do. It’s nothing too elaborate, but should be impressive if you know what to look for.

Click on the image for a closer look of the before/during/after. Enjoy!

So – I’m engaged! It was all very exciting. We tried to hold off telling everyone but close family right away because we were going to use our annual BBQ bash the following weekend.

So telling family was exciting. But then. (more…)

It’s been quite the summer. It felt almost non-stop for the past few months even though it hasn’t been quite that bad. I just haven’t had a lot of “down time”.

I never got my comic going and online by the deadline that I had set. I now have a very nice drawing table, but have yet to actually use it even once! I have 2 logos that I’ve been trying to work on, but haven’t had the time to sit down and work out the details so they’ve been set aside for far too long.

However, my brother moved back to the area, my best friend is finally married to a very wonderful person, we managed to have at least one BBQ (our now annual shindig), and…

All in all, I think it’s been one heck of a summer. ^___^