Back is aching like a champ this afternoon, which is to be expected, as I had a massage treatment yesterday and for some reason I end up pretty sure the following day.

The Secret To Getting Great Sleep Is…Socks

Of course studies on the positive effects of bed socks have focused on cool, winter environments

Personally, I hate wearing socks to bed, and if I do, I don’t sleep very well at all. The part of Australia that I live in doesn’t get that cold in winter, but it does get pretty warm and sticky in summer, and wearing socks to bed would only exacerbate the problem.

The actual secret to great sleep is to test out what actually works for you, track your sleep, do a little research on different “methods” of getting good sleep, and experiment with them till you find what works well for you.

I get my best sleep by not drinking alcohol after 4-5pm, walking more than 6,000 steps in a day, and by having a vape before bed. Following this routine, and being in bed before 11pm, I can pretty much guarantee an 8 hour sleep, with a solid 2 hour block of deep sleep.

This morning, my boss asks me to do up some artwork for a display plinth for an upcoming conference. I contact the display maker to get the layout information from them, I also ask them if they have an Illustrator template that I can use, a pretty simple question, so I thought…

They respond with a “No, we don’t have an Illustrator Template, but here’s a PDF with the dimensions written on it” . After doing a CMD+I on the PDF they sent me, I learn that it was made in Illustrator…. 🙇

It’s so frustrating that they won’t / can’t supply such a simple thing. This would easily enhance their sales offering and allow business’s like ours, who don’t have a marketing / design department, to get more work done by them. I have enough design chops to put logos and images into layers in Illustrator, but not the chops to setup the template to start with so that the bleeds and what-not are correct.

After a quick meet with my boss to tell him what was going on, he decided to cancel the order for the plinths we had with them, with a suggestion that they “create” some templates that they can share with their customers, or at least offer a design fee to do the complete job.

I don’t think I like ‘Dark Mode’ on Mojave, and not just because of apps that don’t support it yet. I think the menu bar icons are too “bright”, they kind of “bleed” into each other. I think Apple should’ve gone with a light grey for the menu bar icons.

Watching: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Out of Mind, Out of Sight (S1.E11) with @travispacker.

When an invisible menace starts attacking contenders in the upcoming May Queen election, the Scooby Gang traces the problem back to Cordelia.

Listening to: Supercomputer – Foam Paradise

Pinched my sons Nintendo Switch so I can play some Zelda, wonder how long it will take for him to notice…

Watching: Iron Fist: The Dragon Dies at Dawn (S2.E6)

Misty and Colleen’s trip to the tattoo parlor turns painful — but not for them. As Davos crosses names off his list, Mary makes Danny an offer.

Just finished importing all of my Instagram posts to my new photo blog that I’m hosting on Micro.blog. You can follow my photo blog, which is now at http://mpp.micro.blog. 📸

Participating in my first Micro Monday, my suggestion would be to follow @vishae and @martinfeld, I’ve had some good back ‘n forth commentary with them over the past week or two.