August 01, 2002

Old friends

Been a pretty good week this way in getting to see some old friends. A few nights ago Cuvarack and I played an intense game of squash. I pulled a squeeky win of 3 to 2, as he likes the drop shots to make me run. Thank the heavens I can do pretty good ball placement to keep in the game. Yestersay I saw Arcterex in Abbotsford for a few passing moments, which was pretty interesting. (Apparently he has learned I am an interesting guy at some training he is doing... whatever that means)

Speaking of which... it was nice yesterday to be in Abby. My father-in-law was having a retirement party where he received some kewl plaques, pictures, and his badges embronzed for 25 years in the service. (He is/was one of the leading forensic fire investigators in North America... he won "Investigator of the year" which is a huge honor in his line of work). Made me real proud. He deserved it.

Been working on my artistic skills in drawing. Starting to think about some technical information Ihave to portray graphically, and started trying some hand drawn techniques. If I can figure how to then make them work in Illustrator, they may be able to be of print quality for big banners, brochures, documentations etc. If you have ANY clue on how I would go about doing that (especially for colorizing etc), please let me know. The biggest thing I want to be able to do is somehow convert it to vector format so it can be resized to anything I need. Know how to do that, or a link to it? Maybe Solas could write an article about it. Who knows.

Posted by SilverStr at August 1, 2002 02:47 PM