Wow, halfway through the month already!  Time is flying by, and yet my days seem so slow.

The last couple nights have been filled up with me working on the new workstation.  I had some trouble blowing away Vista and installing XP Pro.  Among other things, I had to turn off the RAID in the Bios.  I got XP installed, downloaded the motherboard drivers from the Asus website as well as the video card drivers.  Once those were installed I could get the Nic card configured so the box is now on the internet; which makes getting all the needed patches and drivers much easier.  So as of last night I have the dual monitors working and the internet connection configured.  I installed Firefox, the Adobe Creative Suite, Office and a few other apps.  I have an external hard drive, two internal drives and some memory to upgrade as well.  One of my monitors is a Wacom Cintiq 18SX pen-tablet display; which I love!

It acts just like a tablet, so you can ‘draw’ right on the screen.  Until now I have been using my laptop for all my PDF work, but now that I have a workstation I plan to give the tablet-display a workout.

I am also saving my pennies for an upgrade of the Adobe Creative Suite.  I want to get the Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Master Collection which will include everything; from Illustrator and Photoshop, InDesign and Flash, as well After Effects and all the video production products.  I would love to start working with Flash to do some neat things with my product pre-views.

I’ll be working on PDF’s this weekend, so look for a couple of releases soon.