I’m typing this entry on my new MacBook Pro, which I purchased recently having decided that a laptop would be a more efficient way of working since it was time (yet again) to upgrade. This is now the sixth Mac I’ve owned, but more interestingly — and coincidentally — is that each time I’ve purchased a new Mac it’s been at a time of (often major) change in my life:

• a IIci (8 MB RAM, 80 MB HD. That’s 80 megabytes, folks) when I was just starting out;
• a PowerMac 9600 when I was freelancing but found full-time work;
• a PowerComputing Pro (raise your hand if you still have one) when I left my job to work on my own;
• a G4 when I bought my house and business was buzzing;
• a G5 at a time when there was a lot of personal and professional uncertainty and tension;
• and now my MacBook Pro, purchased just a few weeks ago.

So where’s the change this time?

For a while I’ve been contemplating my future as a designer and have been considering a total career change. But being unsure of what to do I decided that, rather than just quit and shut down I’d reboot and expand. So for the past several weeks I have been writing a lot and, more importantly, networking.

It seems to have paid off: I have found full-time employment as a writer/designer but, although I want to say more now, I think I’ll wait and reveal this tale in bits and pieces. I did feel, however, that I should make this little announcement on this site since I want to change the tone of this blog a little.

My original concept for a subject was to write exclusively about graphic design, the Mac, tech news and general geek stuff. But for a while I’ve felt that I needed a change and have spent a good part of the past year essentially changing my thinking; with that I need to get more comfortable with writing as part of what I do now, as a vocation, rather than self-censoring myself because there’s some unofficial “rule” about what one blog should be about, and only about.