Fall... just a shoot here and there. Watching Movies.

Took the time to go back and watch some late 80's / early 90's movies that I missed and never watched because the task always seemed a bit tedious.

Oliver Stone's "JFK" - wow, what a jumbled mess of a movie that ignored the obvious and wasted at least a dozen great performances. Loved John Candy's bit the best, made me wish he had a few more serious roles in his career.

"Full Metal Jacket" - I generally dislike VW flicks but this one was all right. I think of the movie as good in two of three parts - the first part was whenever Vincent D'Onofrio (as pvt. Pyle) was on the screen, one of the truly great unappreciated actors of our time and just a gut-wrenching performance here. A reminder of what REALLY would have happened to Forrest Gump or "Bubba" in the USMC. The 2nd part was bleh - and the 3rd part where we meet Animal Mother (played by Adam Baldwin of Firefly and Chuck) was also very cool and a bit haunting. Typical Kubrick movie... brilliant in the beginning and the end, drags in the middle.

"Dying Young" - Vincent D'Onofrio again with Julia Roberts. A movie I had always heard was "terrible" but was actually pretty decent and worthy of a look, if only just to remind yourself how easy it would be to fall in love with Ms. Roberts.

So right in the midst of having to work tons of pictures... Adobe Bridge, the file management feature for Photoshop, stopped working!

The filmstrips won't align, the folders won't load, and I keep getting the "adobe bridge has stopped working" message.

I go to the Adobe website and they say "we no longer support Adobe Bridge for CS3 - but we will fix your problem if you upgrade to CS4"

Ok wait a second... 15 months ago I buy CS3, the full EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLAR version, and less than two years later they no longer support it?

What the hell has happened, this used to be a good company.

I searched the net for remedies and mostly found angry Adobe users cursing the problem and the company and swearing vengeance, not a good sign!

I did a complete re-install but nothing changed. Wow! So I am starting to wonder if Adobe just cut us all off so we would have to upgrade to CS4? Seriously... I am not paying two hundred dollars every year to upgrade. I went from Photoshop 6.0 to CS3 -- I like using what I am used to! To be honest I think 6.0 was better... it ran so much smoother than CS3 which has more tools but behaves like a buggy lumbering pile of poo. They do that and then they want me to pay for another upgrade? No thank you.

So right now my file editing has slowed down. I am having to use Picasa to manage my files - which honestly is much better than Bridge, but the big thing is that I cannot directly open the file into CS3 from Picasa. So I have to write the file number and the folder number down on a piece of paper, at out of Picasa then go to Photoshop and search for the file to open it. Really a PIA!

I know sounds weird...

I write fantasy fiction on the side and I have some old maps that I drew in the 80's that I'd like to have drawn up by someone with some real artistic talent in that area.

I wonder what something like that costs?

Woke up this morning and noticed that little elves had moved several of my deviations around during the night but they also rewarded me with my 5th Daily Deviation... so I am cool with it.