synthaetic synapse

and so, we are guests in our own home, now. we put it on the market yesterday. we placed an offer on a house in town on Friday and it was accepted, contingent upon the sale of our house, on Saturday. nothing like working things backwards and living from behind the eight ball.

concurrent with all this, we got a new computer system in, and i have yet to get this old 21″ NEC MultiSync monitor calibrated on it. i’m about ready to give up: i can’t process photos on it right now because the color’s off and it’s way low-contrast even after several iterations of the half-hour long calibration routine. bah. it’s just one of those things, i guess, but i’ve been fighting it for two days and not getting any real work done, other than getting some print orders out, and those had to be done off the old machine with the new monitor. bah. computers suck. it’ll piss of #1 Son, but i think i’m going to swap monitors back and put the new one on here. there’s a point wherein the clients do have to come first.

obviously, the imminent move (presuming someone doesn’t out-bid us on that house with a non-contingent offer) weighs heavily on all of us. an interesting side-benefit is watching the kids actively seeking to gain parental favor by virtue of picking up after themselves. but of course, the weather has been crap, so no one’s seen these ultra-clean guest quarters we continue to call “home” other than ourselves and our realtor. winter’s a stupid time to be trying to sell a house out here, but we really had no control over the Spouse Unit getting laid off. and the timing with my not having any contracted client work from January through April was just one of those coinkydinks where you roll your eyes, sigh, say “Go fucking figure”, and sigh again.

other than that, we’re all doing fairly well. the Spouse Unit has accepted a job with a former employer out of California that is going to pay her decently without expecting us to move out there, so that part of our futures is looking bright. it’ll also suffice to see us through in case we have to leave this house on the market through the spring. sorry if that was redundant to a previous post. i’ve been so busy with trying to serve client orders, getting the house ready to show, and getting the new system configured, calibrated, and all the software installed, that i’ve become too damn lazy to go read any previous posts. forgive me. i’ve gotten very adept at not allowing some emotions to show to my fellow family members, for what it’s worth, so i suppose it’s only natural that i bitch and moan a bit on my blogs.

as i was taking photos of the house for the realtor on Monday, i couldn’t help but to think about all the photos that were taken from or of this property. so, i made a compilation of the ones that had been previously published on synthaetica.com.