Summer has arrived!

It's hot here. Like in the 90s every day, and probably will be until I leave. I'm sure it's nothing like Austin, but the heat is a welcome change from the gloom and doom that was early June.

Again, I'm sorry for the lack of updates/showcasing of my work. I keep meaning to ask the appropriate parties about it but always get wrapped up doing this, that or the other thing and then before I know it the editor is gone and it's 10:30 p.m. and we're rushing to finish up the paper. Arg.

I don't like this schedule. I don't have enough time in the morning to really get into anything great. I could go fishing, but in order for it to be worth the time I'd have to get up so early that I'd be too tired to enjoy it. So it goes...

Back in black, I hit the sack...

So I went to Missoula this weekend. Lots of driving, which started at 11:30 Friday night and ended at about 7 Saturday morning. Special thanks to Tonya for letting me sleep it off for a few hours before we headed out for breakfast.

Also, special thanks to Tonya for reminding me of this. It appeared in the Times-News, too, but I couldn't find the article on our site. Turns out it's an international story.

Anyway, I'm still trying to get onto a normal sleep schedule. I'll let you know when that happens.

S

Oh designer, oh designer, where for art thou designer?

They let me do the opinion pages last night. There's a style for everything. It's pretty insane.

Watched Elizabeth after work last night, thoroughly enjoyed it. Clive Owen continues to be a badass, and Cate Blanchet was stunning.

That's really the extent of my day yesterday. My car is fixed, but as always when you get work done on your car, the mechanic always feels the need to remind you of the 19 other things wrong with it. Arg.

More later, I swear. Haven't figured out the PDF issue, but soon I hope.

Sean

Breslin, Cribb have beers again!

TWIN FALLS- Sean Breslin and John Cribb took breaks from their summer internships to enjoy beers together at a sketchy Twin Falls bar. They then left sketchy bar and went to the hotel bar at the Red Lion Inn, which was less sketch and more leisure suit. Breslin did not have time to update his blog today because he has to drop off his car at the repair shop before meeting Cribb for breakfast.
--Staff report

A late one.

Sorry for the late update. The internet was being weird.

So I went on a long walk yesterday, like five miles or so. On about mile three, a guy pulled over in a minivan an asked if I needed a ride. Older gentleman, had Purple Heart plates on his car and a cowboy hat on his head. Looked at me strange when I said I was just out for a walk. I guess walking for recreation's sake wasn't something he ever did.

Last night went better. Spent most of the afternoon designing pages for the Gooding County Leader, a weekly paper that has some sort of relationship with the Times-News, though I'm not sure exactly what sort. I couldn't find a Web site for the paper, otherwise I would have linked it.

I also started playing with Photoshop last night, which seemed to go OK. I'll see if I can post some PDFs of my designed pages up here without running afoul of any copyright issues. Be warned: they look like newspaper pages, I'm not doing anything fancy.

That is all. Take care.

S

A dedication

This post is dedicated to Rachel Cook, Lizz Rauf, Matt Unrau, Letty Hingtgen, Ashley Klein and--of course--Eleena Fikhman. I started on the design desk last night, and wow do I suck at it. You all made it look so easy at the Kaimin. I am truly in awe.

At least the Times-News uses Quark, which I'm slightly familiar with. It's not so much the program that I'm getting thrown off with, it's remembering all the folders where all the files are saved. That and I still have no idea what's good design and what's bad design. I just pray that everything fits.

So because I'm not on the city desk anymore, there's not going to be a whole lot of stories being posted here. Sad, I think. But I get my mornings off, which is pretty awesome because that gives me time to screw around in Twin Falls when stuff is actually open. Woo-hoo!

I went on a long walk this morning, like six miles. I needed it. It was cold and windy, but sunny and the light on the canyon was incredible. I should've brought my camera.

Well, that's all for now. I've gotta schedule my car to get some work done. I don't think the suspension can take one more fishing trip down a dirt road. Boo to that.

Take care.
S

Monday mornings...

As promised, a morning story update.

A hospital in Jerome, Idaho, got a new CT Scanner. Those things are expensive.


Been working on a story about the Idaho Meth Project (hint: it's a lot like Montana's), and here it is!

And finally, a story on the local authorities getting software/hardware to give out E-Citations. They're writing out E-Citations. It's giving us excitations. (That was my editor's joke, not mine.)

That's all for now. Got to go study for a quiz. And by study, I mean cram. A lot.

Sean