A Gorgeous Thunderstorm
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gurdonarkA flash of lightning outside let me know that our rainy days are stretching towards the weekend. Just a few weeks ago, the
rain was an omnipresent delayer of good weather. Now it's a welcome friend, a respite from the really hot days. When we have a good summer, summer storms interrupt the mind-numbing heat.
When we have an "other" summer, drought makes the July August and early September days drag into weeks of heated misery...I'm eager for cool days to last a little longer this year, as we have friends from Los Angeles coming at the end of May for Memorial Day Weekend, and I'd like them not to be trapped in stifling heat.
They have an eighteen month old, so I'm conceptualizing what can we do when baby is under two....
This weekend, I must (a) get a dual cassette boom box; (b) get the copy shop to make more of my booklet; (c) finish that legal education so that I can get the compliance card mailed off; (d)
daydream fervently and without remorse; and (e) start conceptualizing how, without skills, I am going to make a "real" chess set, so that I can do one for the mail art call over in Europe for "real" chess sets.
I got three nice mail art cards yesterday, and ran across a user here at random on postcardx, which led me to immediately send out a card that way. I'm eager to get my Descanso Garden photos developed. Someday I must look into scanners and digi cams and how to post to the web so that one can insert into LJ. The last time I checked on each, I would actually have to *learn something* to use them, so I abandoned the project for fear of intellectual stimulation. On the brighter front, my brother tells me his family is getting a new CD burner, so when I finish the cool "CD release" project I'm on now, and move on to my "DIY CD", then I'll be able to release a more limited run of my own CD than of the third party release I'm working on now.
It was fun last Sunday researching the "how to get a short run of a CD professionally run" issue--I now know how to get that done.
I need gourmet raisin bran and a stiff snifter of tap water.
rain was an omnipresent delayer of good weather. Now it's a welcome friend, a respite from the really hot days. When we have a good summer, summer storms interrupt the mind-numbing heat.
When we have an "other" summer, drought makes the July August and early September days drag into weeks of heated misery...I'm eager for cool days to last a little longer this year, as we have friends from Los Angeles coming at the end of May for Memorial Day Weekend, and I'd like them not to be trapped in stifling heat.
They have an eighteen month old, so I'm conceptualizing what can we do when baby is under two....
This weekend, I must (a) get a dual cassette boom box; (b) get the copy shop to make more of my booklet; (c) finish that legal education so that I can get the compliance card mailed off; (d)
daydream fervently and without remorse; and (e) start conceptualizing how, without skills, I am going to make a "real" chess set, so that I can do one for the mail art call over in Europe for "real" chess sets.
I got three nice mail art cards yesterday, and ran across a user here at random on postcardx, which led me to immediately send out a card that way. I'm eager to get my Descanso Garden photos developed. Someday I must look into scanners and digi cams and how to post to the web so that one can insert into LJ. The last time I checked on each, I would actually have to *learn something* to use them, so I abandoned the project for fear of intellectual stimulation. On the brighter front, my brother tells me his family is getting a new CD burner, so when I finish the cool "CD release" project I'm on now, and move on to my "DIY CD", then I'll be able to release a more limited run of my own CD than of the third party release I'm working on now.
It was fun last Sunday researching the "how to get a short run of a CD professionally run" issue--I now know how to get that done.
I need gourmet raisin bran and a stiff snifter of tap water.
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thunderstorms, chess sets, and photos
Date: 2002-05-03 05:51 am (UTC)I have an aquaintance that makes origami chess sets. One day I'll try to get her to make you one. She alleges they are expensive but you only live once, eh?
It occurs to me the Kodak makes a digicam that you sit in a little cradle in order to get the pictures to your PC. It just sits there, you plop the camera down in it, and bingo - the pix are downloaded. It seems you might have to learn less with one of these that with any other if a respectable ignorance is your goal. I don't see how anyone can ever get good scans from a scanner without learning a good deal. Further, I've got an older digicam that I don't use anymore - maybe I'll send you that one. You might have to learn something though..
Re: thunderstorms, chess sets, and photos
Date: 2002-05-03 12:13 pm (UTC)Did I ever tell you about how in 3rd grade Vacation Bible School I had to use light bulbs to make maracas? The high school biology teacher, Ms. Slayton, was in charge of the VBS class. I had the kind of lack of craft skills that made even Elmer's glue and play scissors elude my grasp...something about this project involved gluing outer material to the light bulb to simulate the maracas...I still remember the discreet little hand-slap Ms. Slayton gave me when I gunked paste in all the wrong parts of the bulb...later, my brother and I mowed her yard, and she was one of my favorite teachers,
but that established for me ground rules about myself that probably rule out origami chess sets.
Thanks for the digi cam info. You know, Walmart will actually give you not only a CD but also a web place for photos. I'm still cogitating,
but you know I really believe that a thousand words is better than a picture....