Texas Wind – Internet Synchronicity / Serendipity

Right now, the wind outside my window is making quite a loud noise … whistling … hoarse talking … tunnel sounds of nature .. a chaotic symphony of nature’s musical scales to an off-key rising and sagging crescendo … lonely … distressing … sad … the wind today is not kind and gentle or welcoming to come out to play … it is whipping around in a frenzy as if chasing demons up and down mountain slopes … I thought it was quite fitting that I found this lovely animal sounds with horses painting while hearing the wind outside my window … synchronicity … serendipity … I was looking for something else entirely but this is what the world gave me … now to understand what the wind … and the painting are trying to tell me.

Animal Sound, Horses by Michael Godey
Animal Sound, Horses by Michael Godey

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This post was written by Barbara Burns on March 16, 2008

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Learning New Software

Books are an enormous aid to me … I even read the software manuals packed with new software IF they send any … Adobe Creative Suite CS3 Design [Standard] {PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat} did not come with any printed manuals [manuals are for sale at Adobe] … it came with an entire DVD though with movies for the various programs – it is quite helpful, though sometimes for me … I need to read it in print and watch how they are doing it.

Playing with the program is a good thing to do as well. These particular programs are powerful but complex and have steep learning curves. I haven’t used either PhotoShop or Illustrator for the last 3 or 4 versions so they have changed them a lot … I’ve never used InDesign before so that is going a bit slowly.

I am building my template grids and basic stuff … character styles, paragraph styles, creating a library with repeating elements, headers and footers …. the preset text variables work great but I am not getting my text variables to work – I need the chapter name in the header and though I followed the directions {I think}, that variable is not updating from the first use of the heading. I will be working on this more next week though I also have other new projects to work on … never a dull moment … always lots to do and a short time to do it in.

I’ve also been playing my PSP Final Fantasy Tactics game a bit too for a change of pace … about an hour or so every couple days or so. The old saying that all work and no play makes ya a dull person is quite true! {I updated my post about that with my reactions to the game.}

Posted under Computers / Electronics, Games / Gaming

This post was written by Barbara Burns on March 9, 2008


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