I really wish that I had something important to talk about instead of just trying to fill in anyone who’s interested in what I’ve been up to. That is, dealing with my professional work, not personal. For this entry I’ll just do a recap of the last two days, mostly just today though.

Just like usual I started working on my web site early, about 7 or so. I like to do that after I’ve read the news, gone to twitter and to reddit. Basically it has become my routine lately, that and diving into the book after a shower. It’s a ritual that I followed this morning to a ‘t’ and didn’t stop until about 5pm. That’s a little misleading because I was doing other things while I was working on the book. Like freeing up some space in my external hard drives. I’ve got something like 11 terabytes of external storage, but only about 400 gigabytes free which is spread across 6 hard drives. That’s completely ridiculous. So I spent some time freeing up about 300 GB this late-morning. It felt good, almost like spring cleaning your house… :)

The book… ah, the book. Well, last night I was just kind of going over how to resection the page number in indesign and I started thinking that I had my layout all wrong. I seemed to put most of the text on the even numbered pages and the images on the left. It wasn’t that way throughout the book, but quite a few, maybe seventy-five percent. I didn’t think it really mattered that much just because most electronic publishing works pretty much on one page at a time (there are exceptions), but I wanted to feel that the final product that I produce is something that I feel confident about about.

The end result was that I went through and changed/switched pages of text with images on probably about 30 spreads(sixty pages). Then since it is completely a manual job, I had to go back through and make sure that I wasn’t off when I moved the text boxes. The positioning in Indesign is very exact, up to fractions of pixels. So that took pretty much a couple of hours of my afternoon. I’m still not done, but it’s basically where it was when I started. My changes are all okay, but the other elements on the pages need to be checked as well. I then had to change the caption locations and in most cases change the color too. I moved the captions of the large images onto the images. Before I had most of the on the facing page.
Doing all that and checking positioning of other elements was most of my day. It felt good though that I have been getting to the point where I am just mopping up and double checking elements. It’s pretty boring, but it’s also fun too. I guess it just matter what my mindset is at the time. A couple of weeks ago you couldn’t pull me away from Premiere because I was having a blast making movies, then I started with the web site, now mostly book.

Alright, I’m rambling and if I can tell that, then I think I should either delete this post or just say good night and click, “publish.”