Went to Bestbuy and got a cable that would connect the Macbook Pro to the 27″ monitor for my HP desktop via HDMI today. Came home and connected the cables (It needs an HDMI cable also) and voila, it shows up on the big monitor and it is so cool. I first set it to mirror the MBP, but later I was clued in to take it off the mirror mode and move some application to the big one, for example, the photoshop. So now, I can have my gmail open on the MBP to monitor my email and also work on the photoshop at the same time on the big monitor with more real estate and also now with a wacom Bamboo tablet, I can do some serious editing with a pen and the touchpad. So cool!!
I’ve seen the designer in the “Newmedia department” of my old job that uses multiple monitor to do their thing on. And every designer has that setup of at least two monitors and a tablet with pen. I never could justify it for myself as a developer to need the fancy setup, now I am free from the ugly job and I have finally got myself all setup to do video and photo work. Stayed up till almost 1am last night watching Adobe TV tutorials on premiere, encore and after effect. Still haven’t quite figured out the main purpose of encore and after effect yet, but I think I have got the premiere part down pretty well. It is very similar to Sony’s Video Studio in operation and workflow. So it’s easy to translate from my existing knowledge.
Met Kim at bestbuy with her husband. The news is the same, it’s still a political place in IS and everyone is looking after themselves. Suggestions for innovative work to help the faculty and students are overridden for projects that would be beneficial to the manager that makes him look better in his boss’s eyes. New manager came in while others were ushered out the door for the reason of having too many managers. It all depends on who you know and how you can butter up the upper management. I often wondered how some people are so good at selling themselves. oh well. I am just happy that I got out of there. It was so stressful and unfair and political, it was suffocating me. Now, I get to learn and play with all the software that interests me, and projects I want to work on. And no one to point fingers at me for things I didn’t do or not responsible for. Such a relief.
Went to see Ban Ban today also. We did the usual routine, he ate his hamburgers, we went for a walk, I sat and knitted while he sat around me for an hour and I gave him a chew toy and I left. He still whines when I leave. Poor baby. It’s a good thing his dad and mom will be back in a couple of days. But I forgot to lock the front door when I left. Ann called and asked if I was there and told me about the unlocked door. I am very relieved that she was there today and caught that. whew!
Been having depressing dreams lately. Woke up to a down mood and it affects me all day. Not sure why. Hopefully I’ll get out of this soon. Sleep hasn’t been easy. I went to bed late, E came home and I woke up, she walked around and I woke up, L got up and I woke up, he moved around and I woke up. By 11am, I am exhausted but L thought it’s odd for me to stay in bed till 11am. Different rhythm in the same house makes it hard to get satisfying sleep. Maybe that’s why I have been having the stressful dreams in my semi-awake state. But other than that, life is still much better at this stage of my life.