Long Time No Post

Well, I'd say this is long overdue. Seems like ages since I have blogged, and indeed it has. I have been very busy of late, both with my day job and with a very large side project that will be revealed soon.

It has been a very enjoyable fall so far, spending lots of time with family and friends. I definitely missed that over the last three years while I was in school. Even though I'm almost as busy these days, by being able to set my own deadlines it is much easier to fit in social times.

Well, I guess that's it for now. I'll have a lot more to post soon so stay tuned :)

TR

Finished But Not…

Happy October everyone!

The month seemed to come in like spring, with unseasonably warm weather and lots and lots of sun, rather than like autumn with cool weather and rain... well it seems to be making up for it now. We're on the second or third day of rain, with reports of rain persisting through the weekend. Not that I'm complaining at all, it was very dry and we needed a good dousing.  As fall continues, so to do the freelance projects. I've completed, well almost, the large job I was working on this past summer. I say "almost" because I never got to the website, my clients have put the site on hold until spring. For now then the project is done and I'll attach some screen-caps of a few of the finished products at the end of this post. I have another project that is up and coming but on the down-low right now so I'll talk more about it on a later posting, probably closer to the new year.

My job is going well these days. I received my first raise two weeks ago and I know do estimations, invoicing and printing on top of design work. It remains a nice starter job to get some experience under my belt.

Well that's it for now. I'll post again soon. Take care everyone, and be well.

These were pieces I did for a proposed local retirement living complex.

Just Another Day

Thanksgiving weekend is almost upon us, if you're Canadian that is. A family holiday that isn't really feeling like one this year. I realize that life changes, that things happen that we don't always like, what this means for a holiday with the name "Thanksgiving" is that it becomes a misnomer, at least to me. There are certain things that I am not thankful for currently. Things that make me think more than thank, and pray, a lot. I'm not going to be an Ogre about it (no offense Ogres), I will still definitely enjoy the time with friends and family (that are here), and be thankful for what has been provided.

TR

The Next Stage

Always keep moving forward

If there is one thing that I have learned in my short tenure here on planet Earth, it is that we must never stop moving forward. Experiencing new things, learning, developing, changing; these are all things that help propel us to new points in our lives. There are moments though, some of which seem to take years to get through, that are painful, these too help us to grow and move forward.
I will admit that I am still in one of these "painful" moments. It is taking much longer than I thought it would to rebound from the loss of a child we were going to adopt. This child didn't die, but due to an Ontario policy, children up for adoption are almost always placed with a blood relative of which we are not. So even though we raised him for almost a year, we lost him to a distant relative by marriage, not even a blood relative. I am still reeling from this loss so day by day I deal with the emotions and the stress it has put on my faith.
Life continues to move forward and new possibilities move in to grab at our attention, one of these possibilities has cropped up and in the months to come I will share more about what that is, but not today. Today was/is a great day, a day spent getting closer to my wife and children. We took our yearly romp down to the French River Trading Post for an ice cream, then enjoyed a leisurely drive through the back roads. All in all a great day.

First post using Blogsy

Little bit of a learning curve to this app but so far its a better app than the Blogger one. The Blogger app is really designed for iPhones and works well for them. I don't really count this as a "blog" post since I'm just fooling around with my devices to make sure I can blog from any of them. I would usually post a link on my Facebook page to my blog, this time however, I think I'll make a link to my Facebook page.

Here's a photo I took when my daughter was in the hospital. It's a beautiful hospital in North Bay.

Blogging on the Go

Trying this out for the first time. Google's new blogger app, we'll see how it turns out.

I've attached a photo I took on my iPhone last night at my son's birthday supper.

Busy

Hello everyone,

I know it's been a few weeks since I've posted anything, sorry. I had a few moments at work to stop and breath, so I thought I'd pop on here and say hello. Work is going quite well, I've been employed as the lead designer at a print/sign shop for the last 3 months and I've really come to enjoy it. There are quite a few different things that we do: vehicle wraps, business cards, posters, flyers, booklets, prints, signs etc... it's a nice mix.

Can't say I'd want to do this for the rest of my life, but it's good to get the experience for the first couple of years out of College. I continue to work on freelance projects as well so that keeps me involved in other aspects of the Graphic Design industry that I don't do at work, such as Web design.

Well that's it for now, guess I better get back at it, those prints won't print themselves... oh wait, yes they do :)

TR.