and the beat goes on
Sick for a week I was, rubella and all, and three days after I got it, my little girl Maia got it too. But all that’s over now, with Maia hardly even breaking out into a full-blown fever with the measles. She wore her rash like robot armor, side-kicking like Riser Kageri.
Her mom on the other hand, couldn’t imagine a whole week without working, and so had her PC brought to the house, when it hadn’t been two weeks yet since Milenyo when we were all working at home because the office roof flew off. Yep, worked at home again (sayang din ang sick leave) and the good/bad thing about working at home is you:
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1. don’t have to dress up
2. don’t have to go to the nearby mall to have lunch (magastos!)
3. don’t have to bear with the oily tapsilog at the nearby jollijeep
4. don’t have to sit in the bus for more than 30 minutes wishing the person beside you would stop singing along with his iPod and instead sing along with the driver’s choice of music.
5. can take long naps.
6. can work late without worrying about how to get a cab.
7. can work late because you took a long nap.
kranken
rubella or what we commonly know as german measles — nothing at all to do with germany but i like the title anyway.
and all the while i thought it was just arthritis.
ok, i’m not old, i’m just sick.
quarantine for a week.
see ya . . .
so that’s what the bridge is for
Not an advanced holloween party this, but mid-way through an InDesign tip during the Adobe INDESIGN WORLD 2006 Roadshow, one of the best seminars I’ve attended this year.
Tim Cole, Senior InDesign Evangelist, Adobe Systems, Inc. and Marianne Young, Solutions Engineer, Adobe Systems, South East Asia, were the Mission Mentors. I bet those who attended were every bit as wowed as I was, and will in the next 24-48 hours probably head off to the nearest pirata tiangge for bootlegs, except a kid from the UP college of IT who won a boxed InDesign software package (inggit kaming lahat!), and the Adobe group gave away shirts and idea notebooks (I got one of those).
One of the new things I learned is about Adobe Bridge … something that if I had known how to use would have eliminated the need for Picasa or Aseedcsee or whatever software that was. Fire up your Adobe Bridge (if you’ve never done so before) and you’ll see what a powerful image manager it is.
Useful URLS :
http://www.indesignsecrets.com/ – for tips tricks podcasts and everything else about Indesign
http://www.adobe.com/studio/print/ptd.html – the Adobe Print Technical Documentation
http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/ – The Adobe Design Center
http://www.roguesheep.com – RogueSheep Incorporated, for some really useful plugins for InDesign
How the mighty trees have fallen
Before . . .
. . . After
In Iligan we call them “cherries”, Cebuanos say “mansanitas”, Tagalogs call them “alatires”.
But they’re gone now, along with the bigger, older one outside the fence, victims of Milenyo’s fury. For days onwards birds would sit on the edge of our roof and chirp in confusion, wondering where their snack tree was.
The Ashanti tribe of Ghana say “A mighty tree has fallen” instead of “the king has died.”
I would like to extend my condolences to the Rozul clan of Mendez, Cavite, and to the Galzote clan in Urdaneta, Pangasinan, the patriarchs of whom have recently passed into the great beyond.
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