LOL! Well today's training was all Qi Gong and speed drills...no heavy kicking. Alan - I also find that starting the day with breathing exercises sets a very good foundation. And like many things, I agree that they are almost completely in the mind first. Mental imagery is extremely important regardless of what activity. Susan - What? You wouldn't want to sit in a closed door meeting with a sweaty, bloody person for a few hours? Yes, there is a shower here...which is good. Many folks in this office ride bicycles in the canyons at lunch and they come back pretty sweaty! Eric - yeah, I guess that's not too helpful, but it is a snapshot of my days. I will look up some more helpful topics and post them when I have time. This is really only a tiny set of training activities that I do, however it's about all I have time for during the busy work day. I will add to this thread as I get a good routine going...I have a jump rope training routine that is a bit easier for others to adopt, so I'll post that when I get some time. The main thing I find is to be creative and more naturally. I am not a big fan of machines that limit one's range of motion. Stay active everyone! ...as they say, use it or lose it! Wink Cheers, CraigD

way way back when i was graduating.. i sent out my resume and a mini cd with a portfolio in html...that worked 'ok'.. now i think you'd be more successful because of all the great universal formats out there... swf, pdf, etc.. now i just have a pdf portfolio that matches an 8.5x11 physical portfolio i have.. i'm sure youv'e got nothing to worry about..but yeah, always good to be prepared.. friend of mine just got let go..and they made him leave right then and there..he had no time to collect any work or any contacts or anything..so he's pretty stuck..... so always be prepared Wink

James, One trick I use since I use SU more than Illustrator is to rough out artwork in SU and then export into Illustrator and finish it there. Will only be helpful if your logo is mainly line work and not photographic.

Welcome Chris and Thank you...I look at it like this..In the end, there will be either GOOD news or me maxing out my credit cards...

The body of work may have more to do with age than talent.

Happy Birthday Eric.

Have a look at both Hypercosm and eDrawings, AFAIK they have some functionality that is like (or close to) what you are describing.

perhaps not as good an idea as i originally thought

Thanks solo. Deep Exploration looks nice. Maybe they'll give me a copy so I can write a review of it.

Excellent site, Jim...here's another: http://www.antiquehome.org/House-Plans/

that is the best picture ive seen created by SU+whatever else.

@rob d said: Ok. Please don't shoot me down in flames for this, but my first impressions on seeing the newsletter were "wow, what a good idea". Then I started reading it and this soon changed to "Am I just being marketed to here?...". Did anyone else here feel this? It just seems very out of place when the reason a lot of people came here in preference to G Groups was that they wanted to avoid banner ads ?? Hi Rob, I think the main reason many people came here is because of the easy navigation and style of this forum. I'm 100% sure that if Google SketchUp had offered a similar replacement forum even with some side / banner adds very few would have moved. I use Gmail as one of my everyday email addresses and the little bit of unobtrusive advertising does not bother me in the slightest, in fact I often find it useful. Its a fantastic free email account and I would have paid for it! I doubt very much that this forum will survive on casual donations unless Coen decides to stop eating and take up residence in the local park! I am aware that he is presently running things on a shoe string, not easy going at all. I would have no objection if advertising was to become part of this site in the future allowing it to grow and further develop in the training / education fields of SketchUp and other related CAD programs. Having to 'put up' with a small amount of advertising would be a small price to pay for this. Nothing in life is free Mike

Ross, I love your new avatar! Although I cannot tell if you are excited, suprised or both

Ross looks like "Silent Bob" it's cracking me up... so people fly all the way there to see that house? we go a sky scraper in bartlesville, Oklahoma. the FLW did... it's not really a sky scraper, but it's huge out in the middle of nowhere... [image: qZ6i_dusk-400.jpg]

@unknownuser said: I still have all my old lego sets Me and my daughter play all the time. Passed mine on to my stepbrother, and he to younger cousins and so forth. My old bricks are probably still out there, ruining vacuum cleaners somewhere. My Micronauts (who colonized my room throughout much of my youth) are still in my parent's attic though, awaiting my second childhood: http://www.bugeyedmonster.com/toys/micro/microplaysets.shtml http://www.innerspaceonline.com/megacity.htm ...except for the evil Baron Karza ( http://www.innerspaceonline.com/bk.htm ), who went to architecture school with me. He is currently sitting in my parlor on a copy of a Lebbeus Woods' Radical Reconstruction. posted by Lewis Wadsworth

I guess this is the chair for democrats because it's hanging to the left a bit.

Aha... Well, thanks - at least for that very last line (now I can hope I'm not alone in the universe who does not understand it Gaieus

oh Jackson that cracked me up... Krisidious

You are welcome, Nigel. Hope you find what you are looking for, I remember seeing something similar discussed over there. Guite

sorry Coen - I though you meant rolleyes - maybe you should have used