Well after years of being too lazy and not truly needing to learn it, I'm finally venturing into the world of learning Flash. My boss envisions a very clean, homepage to our new website, and he wants to see movement, rotation and other things that would be difficult to do without using Flash.

So why not? I can learn how to do it. I am skilled enough with computers and technically minded enough to learn enough action script to be dangerous.

The nicest thing about it...

Well, I should know better than to post a streak anywhere... We got crushed last night in hockey (lost 9-2 despite leading for half the game). Not a complete collapse until late in the game, but so much for going undefeated.

No big deal really, but we look to get back on the winning side of things with 2 games this coming weekend.

Is it sad that I find more to post on my hockey team than design lately? Stuck in monotonous image processing for a little while trying...

Now I don't really care about reputation points on here, it's nice to know people think you're helpful, but beyond that, I've seen people with huge reputation points that really don't contribute as much as others with lower reputation points.

In any case, I happen to look down today and noticed my reputation points as of this post stand at 51.

I just thought I'd take a moment to celebrate such a great number.

We took advantage of the weekend without the kids (seems so long ago, but I've been really busy) by painting our living room. Let me start off by saying anyone who ever considers putting up a border or wallpaper in a room should be dragged out and beat with a large rusty wrench.

Our room only had a border on it, but the one wall with the gas fireplace might as well have been carved into the sheet rock. That wall alone took me 6-8 hours to do and the section with a border was only...

I finished the design of the product page for our new hockey website (I'll post screen shots when we get the thing to a working demo stage) and I designed the look of the review page. Both relatively small projects in the grand scheme of the whole site, but every piece counts.

The rest of the week has been tied up with trying to deal with google to update all of our store listings (never fun dealing with a immovable giant that is purposely meant to be vague, spoon fed and anti-workarounds),...