From the monthly archives: October 2004
David and I have both been extremely busy lately… with band stuff. Saturday was the middle school district competition and next Saturday is the region competition. I like judging because I judge my lesson kiddos and get to take comments on their performances. Plus, since I’m not a band director, I get paid. Also in [...]
So we voted tonight. We’ll be out of town the entire day Tuesday (San Antonio to the UIL State Marching Competition to support the CPHS band) so we decided to go tonight, the last night for early voting around here. After a trip to the mall, which did not have voting we found out, we [...]
Okay, I have to admit, David and I do not watch the news. We do not subscribe to a newspaper, nor do we read “news” sites online. We are pretty detached from “news” in general, including the mud-slinging of politics. David watched some of the Bush-Kerry debates but I did not. So I have a [...]
Have you ever stared at a picture so long that you feel like you will have it with you always? I am currently enjoying such a time.
I am blown away by the prints. I did not expect all of my pictures to turn out… yet they all did. And how beautifully! I have [...]
I just got paid, like, FINALLY, so our six rolls of film from our summer trip to Virginia for Jenn’s wedding (and our road trip to DC) will be developed soon. I’ve settled on Wolf Camera to develop the film simply because I know where one is and it’s not as intimidating as Holland’s … [...]
Today is my busiest, cram-packed, most clarinetish day of the week. Not only do I teach a section of 7 bass clarinets before school (CPHS) but I also have thirteen students during the day. Well, today one of them knocked over my clarinet (it was even on a clarinet stand) and incurred damage that prevents [...]
So, yeah, I made two sets of GIMP brushes yesterday. Both are downloadable from site where the images link.
The first, Swirlz, is from the font Curlz MT. I just erased and manually added the anti-aliasing where it was missing from the erased areas. The second was inspired by the hot [...]
I have just discovered how to make my own brushes for the gimp and it’s really quite simple. I used Graphic Converter to get the basic brush (since the font recognizer in gimp 2.0 doesn’t recognize 97% of my fonts) which in the case of the header above was Edwardian Script [...]
Well, its been almost a week since Mark and I took apart my iMac and replaced the Hard Drive. As we found out, the iMac G4 was apparently designed to be some sort of stationary dust collection unit. There are air holes circling the base of the dome (intake) and air holes at [...]
Praise the Lord! We’re running on a new 160gig internal hard drive. I’ll let Dave tell the rest of the story (later).
Not this month either. Although this is the first month we have had a false positive pregnancy test. Talk about getting your hopes up! They say that there are more false negatives than false positives but that doesn’t mean that a false positive is unheard of. It happens, it really does, and I’m here to [...]
The next morning (after the previous post) when I tried to start up the computer (after running flawlessly for two hours) it could not find anything… I got a light blue screen with a flashing question-mark folder, teeny-tiny, in the middle of the screen. None of the hotkeys did anything upon re-booting. Lo and behold, [...]
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