I iz hiding out at home today.

I am going to sit down and sort google calender for myself, or try to and carry on doing a few geeky comp things to set up my system better for work purposes. Alot of what I do is time consuming, apart from design work, there’s the added need to continually learn and upskill new techniques, discover new aspects of the programs I am using and stay up to date with the latest design trends. I spent the other night chatting with a friend who was very intrigued as to how I did things and I explained that the majority of my spare cash I earn from my design work goes back into it. I can spend hours pissing about with tutorials, learning new stuff. Alot of it is downtime as I call it where I am not physically earning cash, more building up my skills so it leaves things open to be able to take on more specialised work.

She was a little confused, staring at the computer screen, then me. I showed her the pile of pricy art books, the pile of web design magazines, the scrapbooks and folders full of inspiration I have collected, the discs that fill up a container. My graphic gear, the different kinds of paper and art supplies I own. I showed her the folders hidden in my comp with thousands of resources, my art morgue as I call it hehe. She freaked out when I told her it’s only been accumlulated in the last few months. I have a healthy little collection hehe. I had a huge resource collection before I went to aussie, sadly alot of that is irreplacable and I bloody shouldn’t have sold it all. But it’s growing again and proving invaluable.

The computer is full of things like icons, template designs, logo designs, mascots, all the things that can spark a wee flicker of creativity. Thing is I am building this wee repotoire of mine so damn fast it’s a shitmess in the background and it needs to be organised alot better than it is. It’s taking too much time hunting through things to access a simple icon or whatever. I have hundreds of useful sites bookmarked and not enough time to go through them all.

Funny thing is I’ve realised she’s come away alot more enlightened and more understanding of what I do. And now she’s running about telling everyone if you want a successful business you have to put money and time back into it … clever puppy hehe. So yea today is “sort my shit” day. Let’s see how anal I can get with organising hehe.

Am gonna go suss this little doozy out too “Remember The Milk” …