This is probably going to be shorter than usual. I don’t have a lot of interesting to share. I spent most of my week working and trying to get studying done, mostly to no avail. And I was mostly unfocused for the weekend so while I got things done, and even had some time to visit with people, I don’t have a lot to share.
The first week back to the day job after two weeks off wasn’t too bad. I think it helps that I work from home right now so it wasn’t near the shock to the system that going into an office after two weeks away is. I did have plenty of work to come back to. One system has a problem that I need to find a solution for and it looks like I’ll also be planning for an upgrade to that system. And there are the projects that were already on the plate. At least things didn’t completely blow up.
I still have that studying to do. I had planned to get into that over the weekend since that first week back was not really conducive to trying to study. The amount of brain power left at the end of the day just wasn’t enough for it. At least not the intensive studying I need to do. I managed to do a little bit to start to refresh the brain cells and prime the synapses. From there, I was planning on really digging in and attacking it. That didn’t happen. I suspect it was the side effects of that first week back thing.
The things I got done mostly involved moving from one, ‘oh I should do that’ thing to ‘I guess I could do that’ thing, and back again. The problem with that is that there tends to always be one more of those sort of things to do, until you run out of day. That means, I did not get started on the next Blender project. During the week I did manage to update Blender on my desktop and laptop to 2.90.1. It is supposed to have some bug fixes and, given that when I tried to render an image from the last project in 2.90 I managed to break Blender, I figured it would be a good idea to update it. I haven’t tested it out yet. So I don’t know if it fixes my problem.
I think I have settled back into work mode enough that I have finally gotten a little more focused and determined. I’ve started on the more intensive study again. Which is good. I have set a deadline to get that test taken and I find that to be motivating. I have added short bits of guitar playing in the mix. Very short. Just 10 minutes or so. Just enough time to run through some scale exercises and maybe strum through a song. It keeps the fingers limber and the ears tuned. And for now that will have to do. I am going to save the Blender projects for short breaks on the weekend until I take the test. It means that my projects will be probably be slightly out of season. And that’s ok. Right now, I need to work on my Blender skills more than I need to meet seasonal deadlines for projects.
That’s all the excitement for now. I’ll leave this for you and I am going to dive into a bit of study before I run out of day. Enjoy the pictures and check back again. I will try to make the next week more interesting.