Omnigraffle, I heart you

Went to an Omnigraffle demo today. Not sure if this was fortuitous or not as I could see myself wasting many hours playing with this diagramming tool. Since it’s made exclusively for the Mac it’s real purty and easy to use. I thought I had won out big time by scoring a free version of the latest Adobe Suite but now I’m having second thoughts. Illustrator is powerful no doubt but boy is it scary if you don’t use it all the time and know all its tricks. How could a program make drawing a line so difficult? Now I just have to scrounge up the $48 dollars to buy the darn thing (the box that directs you to the educational store is very inconspicuous, makes you wonder if they want you to find it at all.) I also need to buy the text editor I’ve fallen in love with. Alas, if freeware were also bestware I wouldn’t have to factor these software purchases into my limited budget.