Author name: jade

empty flight

With travel restrictions tightly enforced, there were 22 passengers, 13 cabin crew, and 4 flight crew for the entire Airbus A350. There was no wait for meals or drinks, there was never a line for the bathroom, and there was enough room that I could spread out between 3 seats and sleep. This 14 hour […]

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Australia bound

From September 2020 until now, we’ve been working on a work trip to Australia. Because BF will be working and AU isn’t allowing tourists due to covid, we applied for a permanent resident visa. The application was under the category of distinguished talent. In on the coattails. The first part of the application was demonstrating

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Photoshop camera

Photoshop Camera is an Adobe product that was released in 2020. I downloaded it shortly before the Adobe Max conference last October because I knew there would be workshops about this product. At first I wasn’t excited about it since it was sort of like Instagram filters and I couldn’t see the value in the

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Broken pix

This blog was maintained well 2012-2014. Then life filled with surgery recovery, cancer, graduations, and abandonment. As I began my 2021 goal to update all kid reference and pronouns, I found that the Instagram photo links were all broken. Hmmm. Once upon a time, I could trick the browser into telling me the direct link

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Too Darn hot

Pre-menopause, I was always cold. I needed the heater on, several layers of clothes, and flannel sheets. During menopause, I never had classic hot flashes but I did notice that I didn’t need socks for bedtime or long underwear during the day. Post-menopause, I am always warm to sweltering. There are many things that I

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