Sure it’s a chance to learn something about yourself, and a skill set you have, but coming to a crossroads where you don’t know how to make a project work beyond that point, is troubling to say the least. Especially if you’ve worked hard to get a project 95% of the way there, but are now stuck on a subjective obstacle that somebody (read paying client) doesn’t feel is where they’d ultimately like it. Tough spot to be in. Uncomfortable. A bit of a bug bear if you will.
Usually I can ram my head & hands against a problem to wrestle it into a useable form, but I’m coming up a bit short. And I don’t know what to do to find that last 5%. Is it ambient light. Bounced light. Texture. Shading, or shadows. The soft focus, or a slight addition of a blur effect. Saturation of the colours… I just don’t know. With the deadline closing I’m not able to test every single permutation to find what gets us to 100. Fun times.
Anyway, it’s Wednesday today, and the kids have yet another PA Day this Friday for me to contend with. Plus the new rock climbing program on Saturday mid day across town in Markham. I guess we could have waited for Friday to put up our Christmas tree. I could have made hot chocolate. Played our holiday playlists. Dressed up in santa hats, you know, the whole nine yards. In all honesty it still would have only taken up 90 minutes of our time, and the kids still got to spend a full hour obsessing over ornament placement on the tree, so it’s not like I robbed them of anything really significant.
We can take the dog for a walk as a family to kill an hour or so. Once we make lunch, watch a movie, and run around outdoors, or rake the last of the leaves the day will mostly be through anyway. I imagine that I’ll have paid work to do, so I can’t be totally absent from my office all day long.
Who knows maybe by some stroke of luck, or inspiration I will tumble across the final 5% that makes everything click into place, and I won’t have to think about this issue any longer this week. Waiting on feedback for the last round of edits. Fingers, and toes crossed for good vibes!
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