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Stamp01The Road Less Traveled to Licensure
I thought that I’d pause in the effort to share my reference library to reflect on something that happened back in late August. Traveling home from a few days of closing out the family cottage and winterizing the building for the coming season, I received a phone call from the State of Minnesota Licensing and Registration Board…
2020_DF2020 – Looking Back
Seems while everyone else is doing their ‘year in review’ it hardly seems worth the effort for this dismal dumpster fire of a year. Popular theme, but well deserving. Life has come to a long pause, and people are out there, suffering loss. Unemployment + Self-Employment For the second time in my life, since the age of…
OverallExisting Conditions – Upside-down and backward
Background In the interest of writing it all down to share… I’m discovering what I’ve sorta always known. I’m a task-oriented problem solver that’s dedicated to sitting down and cranking out the work without really deviating – unless I have a competing task or deadline. Over the last 10 days or so, I was granted…
Write it All Down
It’s been almost 3 months since I posted anything. Well, not entirely true. It’s been 3 months since I wrote it down in here. There’s been a lot going on, some good, some struggles, and life in general. I’ll break this apart in to digestible separate posts – but one thing is clear to me.…
Blueprint-ThumbnailDefine Essential.
While on 4 hour road trips, it’s easy for the mind to wander… A few recurring questions kept surfacing over the last week or so while migrating between states. I can’t really discuss with people outside the architecture profession, as its not exactly a riveting discussion outside our field. Seemingly, there is a scramble in architecture to…
Logo01_BarnLogos, Fonts & Graphics
Much like the quests for everything else, the path starts about 20 steps before I assumed it did. Design is design is design… so that part never changes Of course as a designer, we make pretty horrible clients, unless you come to terms with the idea that for your personal graphics – everything is in…
For every task, there is a tutorial…
You want to know how to go thru building a portfolio? That’s right – make & retool Revit templates, graphic standards and maybe you build a PC to (re)produce all the visual media. I’m still here, I’m still working toward something – but telling the story properly has become more of an epic tale than…
Unemployment so far…
Decisions, decisions. In the last major downturn (2008/2009) I was struggling. HARD. I had a few saving sources in my professional life that kept me afloat, working on projects here and there – living hand-to-mouth and losing my savings quickly. The position that I was in was not good. Unemployment was gone, most of my…
Build01GAME. ON.
The Build. Started as a ‘what if’ and became a reality out of pure necessity and reduced access to components… PC component prices are getting dicey as supply diminishes and demand increases for the WFH / unplanned unemployed crowd. So I was forced into pulling the trigger on infrastructure investment. The initial plan was to…
R&R (Reading & Research) Downtime & Tech Difficulties
If there’s one upside to come from a string of tech problems and being distanced from society as a whole – it definitely frees up some time to read. While installing software on a new PC build (more an immediate need, than the luxury dream project it was supposed to be) and trying to run…