One thing I find interesting is my need to “drop bombs” on my daily life. What this means is simply that getting into a rut is not a good thing, and shaking up the patterns and routines are necessary to keep life interesting. For example, I have settled into this pattern: coffee, breakfast, clean up myself and the house, figure out evening meals, and then paint and draw. Much as I like the last, I find myself getting stuck in a rut. The other things I like doing don’t get done. And, I get really bored; worse, I feel like I am not “accomplishing” anything! That’s the problem with having a lot of interests and an impatient, restless personality. I irritate myself as well as others.
The other day, I finally got around to buying a new laptop computer. My old ones were worthless except as boat anchors. Poor graphics and connectivity. Slow. I have one, a Windows XP machine dedicated to my film scanner. Another was not forward compatible with Windows – can you believe that??? Anyway, as a result, I had to clean up the bloat ware on the new laptop and install software I use. With everything internet-based, it’s interesting to now own a laptop with only a few external connections and no DVD drive. The result was I finally broke down and decided to enroll in Lightroom CC for photography.
I really like LR as a jump-off point for other software to edit photographs. The catalog system is great. However, the Creative Cloud version has some things I need to learn! I have never been a cloud-based person, preferring to keep stuff on my own hardware rather than rely on others to take care of me. As times change, though, so must we, even if I am not sure this is always for the best. What I know I will like is being able to access my photos from either my laptop or my home computer without having to use sneaker net anymore. That is also what I like about Google and being able to sync across computers.
The challenge here is making sure I do what I like. It’s actually very hard to find time to do all the things I want to do. 
Poor weather has kept me in the house a lot – who wants to go out in pouring rain? – but that is like house arrest after a bit. The LR is going to be a challenge, and fun. The bigger challenge is to find the time to do so many other things!
I have made one promise to myself, though: I will draw or paint every day, no matter what else is on the agenda.
Ink, Yarn & Beer 