Free Food (for Cowboys)

I’m in College Station, home of Texas A&M
and site of my greatest defeat, visiting my grandmother for her 87th birthday.
She lives here with my parents and I always enjoy visiting but if it weren’t for them I’d love to leave this town behind for good. I drew this sketch over Christmas and to me if captures something key about her , a sadness in her that is
both accurate and surprising.

Gran at Christmas 2003

More hacking on f-spot, things are going well. I think it is almost to the point of being useful enough that people should give it a try and let me know where it comes up short for them. I planned to make a 0.1 release a couple of weeks ago but I got a bit behind and haven’t had the heart to finish it yet.

Spent some time working on f-spot. Things are slowly coming along, but it never goes quite as fast as I’d like it to. My mood isn’t helping things, I wish
I knew how to fix that.

I convinced Taletha to lend me her iBook to play with iPhoto. There is a lot to like and a lot that is confusing. In the process of playing with things I tried installing the export plug-in for gallery. I couldn’t get it to actually upload photos. I think there may be something wrong in with my gallery setup.

While playing with f-spot I looked back over the pictures from the friday before Valentine’s day. I am a lucky man

Frustrating times lately. I’ve been having trouble focusing on the task at hand. My mind keeps wandering and leading me into little loops of contemplation
that are difficult to break out of. In an attempt to clear my head I’ve been sketching in the down moments during builds. These quick doodles often come out looking somewhat representative of my mental state.