I have had a couple of lazy weeks in terms of updating my journal. It looks like a few others I know that journal a lot have also been more quiet recently. Must be the rhythmic cycle of the universe currently. I have just gotten off night shifts, and a load of photos to edit to release out!

I’ve been using the new #XPPen #Artist16 #Tablet and I am loving it for editing my #photography so far. Works out of the box on #Linux too!

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My #XPPen tablet is here. Keen to try it out. Hopefully not too complicated to get working on #Linux!

Had another beautiful day at the zoo today with the wife and kids. You can expect more photos soon. I am just waiting on my new #XPPen to arrive tomorrow so I can play around editing in #DarkTable with my new tool!

I can’t believe that it’s been another week gone. Around the corner to Christmas already.

My week off is coming to an end. I’ve been busy editing RAW photo’s over the last couple days as you might have seen. Tomorrow is my last day off, and then it’s back into the regular routine of work.

I installed the KDE Plasma desktop on my #POPOS installation that uses GNOME by default. Don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner, it’s so much more powerful and customizable!

Got my monitor calibrated. Photo’s look more accurate on other devices that they did before! Geez, I feel so silly for not doing this a lot sooner!

Lesson… Here I am taking photographs and editing in #DarkTable. But have I calibrated my monitor? Nope… Got a new calibrator on the way. And thinking of getting a pen display as well for the editing!

Yay, #DavinciResolve works flawlessly and version 20 has some neat new AI features to play around with.

New version of #DavinciResolve for Linux. See if I break anything!

Busy morning. Although unproductive in terms of getting my daily routine done. But other that that, I spent a lot of time on #SLColonies and within #SecondLife working on our new Questing System and creating some quest lines for our customers.

Wonderful. Back into #LiveStreaming for #SLColonies after 7 months of feeling burned out. Check out the stream here and let me know what you think! It’s for our #IndieGame we’ve been working on for years.

Pretty busy morning. Made new artwork for #SLColonies products we launched to our community and had to move everything from Adobe Photoshop to #GIMP. I’ll be doing a Live Stream tomorrow as well for the community at www.youtube.com/watch about upcoming products.

Been playing around with an old template from #Photoshop and converting it all to work with #GIMP since I have ditched #Adobe. There’s a few slight differences, but you can accomplish a lot of what’s desired using different techniques. Like clipping masks.

Had a productive day on my first day off. Got all my tasks ticked off, now I just need to keep that up!

Did some work on OBS and preparing the computer to live stream for #SLColonies. I think I have everything setup as I want it.

13 days of annual leave to enjoy! Let’s make the most of it.

• Check the weeks weather
• Check the weeks fire danger ratings
• Check my roster for days off and available time
• Plan any potential hiking opportunities
• Plan any potential family activities
• Check all the daily entries from this last week to reflect and journal about.

Got a few things to do this week already. My days off work start on Wednesday and I have 1.5 weeks off to myself to make the most out of!

Went and purchased a SAMSUNG 990 EVO SSD 2TB M.2 chip for photo and video editing to replace my 512gig SSD. I saw they have ones as fast as 15,000MB/s now days on PCIe 5.0. Darn, I need a new motherboard for that. Mine is still PCIe 3.0. Few more items going on my list of upgrades then!

• Night Shift Week

Done and dusted with #NightShift this week! Back to normal 2 days of work and then just over a week off. Time to catch up on my #SelfCare, do some #Hiking and have some fun!