Steakboy, Jedi and Pi Reunion

Laken left us in mid-year to go off into the big world and conquer it.  I believe she will do just that.  But she left us high and dry with no real life jacket in case of floods.

To put it simply, she did all the work for the cover first semester and didn't train our new editor-in-chief how to do it.  She didn't come to deadline nights because she had a college class inconveniently scheduled for the same night, so she didn't share her brain with us.  She did create a basic handout for inDesign that has served very useful, so I will give her huge props for that.

I love her, do not get me wrong.  Love has nothing to do with it.  This is about leaving a legacy....training others until you are not needed any longer.  I have learned that it is not MY job any longer to do this; it is the students'.  I used to obsess about not knowing how to do things like properly size a photo in Photoshop or how to create an illustration in Illustrator, but now I know these things.  Sure, I still can't remember how to wrap text around an image in inDesign, but I have a plan.

This month, I have asked Steakboy, Jedi and Pi to attend deadline night.  I have offered to pay gas and food from my own pocket.  They can teach us a ton of cool stuff AND I can relax.  I might film them, and I will laugh heartily.  These boys trained Laken, but the legacy stopped with her and didn't move on.  So, I have decided to go back to the source and have a reunion of the BRAINS so I can capture it for use into perpetuity.

Meanwhile I play trivia:

Record streak: LivelyLibra of 60. Record time: LivelyLibra of 1.906. Record wpm: LivelyLibra of 60. Happycat gives LivelyLibra keg of beer for kicking everybodies asses!  10 questions!

And sit on this the 9th or 10th snow day of the year, reminiscing about the old days.  Five years is a long time, and learned much, have I.  There is still a lot to learn, but I have made progress.  I can maybe ride this year out -- if I survive the March release of Thresholds and Other Ruminations.