Yesterday was a bit dreary and too cool for a nice afternoon at the pool. But, today the sun was shining, the clouds were no where to be found, a glorious first day of summer.
Carlton seems pretty happy. I think he feels better knowing that he has a plan for getting his hernia fixed after Labor Day. But, he has a backup plan in case he needs to have it fixed on an emergency basis.
And, I manufactured a rather complex SQL report at the volunteer job this morning. Not too shabby for an old assembly language code slinger.
Well, after putzing around with my messed up Lightroom catalog – I hauled out my Time Machine backup and put everything back the way it was the day before the little “accident”. Thank You! Time Machine.
Mr C went to see his dermatologist today. They told him that he had to keep a big band-aid on his head for another month. And, this made him really unhappy – next month after they work on his nose – he will have a big band-aid on his nose for 5 weeks. Maybe we can get him a clown nose?
I almost ordered up FIOS. Then I remembered Carlton. Carlton hates wires. And, FIOS will involve wires. If he doesn’t like the way the installation looks – I’ll never hear the end of it. Also, if the phone is in any way different from our copper service – well – he would complain about that too. As in “The phone just hasn’t been as good since YOU got FIOS”. It isn’t worth the drama. Sooner or later Verizon will force us off copper. Then he can blame Verizon.
OOPS. While I was looking around in Lightroom on Saturday… Looking for pictures of our forefathers, I had a little Lightroom accident. And, as a result I ended up with an additional 3,500 images in my Lightroom Catalog. I could have restored the catalog from Friday’s backup. But, I decided to keep them in the catalog and figure out what the images were. Mostly, they are fish. I kept my fish photos in a separate catalog. But now, I think all of my fish are in the main catalog. So, maybe, I’ll keep them there.
But on thing is sure – I have way too many turtles.
After spending the day at the dermatologists office, Mr C came home with 5 cuts of various sizes. The three you can see, plus one on his chest – yes that chest – and one on his leg.
I spent all day at the office and produced my very first SQL report. And, I put together a “some assembly required” cheap-ass little cabinet.
Monumental Scaffolding – taken from the living room balcony with the ZS-15
They have been doing “something” to the scaffolding over the last couple of weeks. I still hope they put lights on it for July 4th. If it were in Paris – they would put fireworks on it for July 4th or rather Bastille Day. But, the Eiffel TowerTower is iron – not a pile of stones.
As for me, I have been enjoying poor health today. Nothing serious. Just a little sinus issue. I did stay home from work today. I curled up with a nice SQL manual.
Playing around with Pixelmator before I kick Photoshop Elements and maybe iPhoto out of The Airness.
Started playing around with some bastard SQL report writer that might let me get some meaningful data out of our new computer system. I fired it up and it started the session by telling me:
Disclaimer: The OHM/Web Report Writer tool, this document, and optional training are all geared toward Users with a fairly high level of understanding and skill with SQL scripting (essentially, computer programming).
Another rainy day. But, I couldn’t very well call in “wet” today since I played the wet card on Friday. It was a raincoat, umbrella and Keen water sandals sort of a commute.
I culled my 200 images down to 3. Final image tomorrow.
Lazy cool cloudy summer day. In theory Sunday morning is when I do my domestic chores. (Carlton does his on Friday morning.) I started off by hitting the grocery stores. Yep, stores. I need the exercise. And, I really do like to buy groceries. So, I walked to two stores. And, carried the food home. Exercise done! Fridge full! Then I started up “my” machines – dishwasher, clothes washer and drier and let them do their thing. I did minimal kitchen cleaning and even less bathroom cleaning and called declared things Clean Enough.
Still hating my ISP. (Verizon DSL). See no reason to reward Verizon for poor service by “upgrading” my $25/month DSL to $85/month FIOS. Comcast is equally hateful and expensive. It is almost enough to make a person move to KC just to get Google Fiber – where $120 per month gets you T1 speeds. And $300 gets you 5Mbps speed for seven years.
OTOH – I could dust off my hacking skills and tap into one of my neighbors WiFi. I can’t believe I said that? Maybe I could offer someone a nice bottle of wine in exchange for a password.
The Clarendon Cup Criterium Race is one of the regular summer events. It was cool and cloudy for today’s racing.
I ended up with 200 photos. That is less than usual because I only watched the women’s race. I culled the 200 down to 29. By this time tomorrow it will be down to 5 or less.
At this instant, I am hiding the the bedroom. Mr C is in the living room and clicking madly between Martha Stewart and the Belmont Stakes. Martha Stewart and horse racing are two of my least favorite things. Actually, I am mellowing as far as Martha goes. Unlike most men caught with hand in cookie jar – Martha just went off to jail in West Virginia, did her time, and got on with her life.
Did I mention that Mr C is off for some Mohs surgery on this head this coming Thursday. It is an out patient procedure. And, shouldn’t be any big deal. BUT … he is more than a little concerned because he knows that he put having that thing fixed off at least six months. The Mohs surgery guy operates one day a month at our facility. Mr C says that he is going to go have something cut out every month until we go to Kona at the end of October. As you can see, he did learn something as a result of the recent unpleasantness. As Granny would have said “A stitch in time saves nine.”
I rather like this photo – but maybe not the kid leaning in at the lower right
So, on this rainy day – I played around with Pixelmator – which I got free from the App Store a couple of months ago. But, today was the first time I fired it up.
Pixelmatored version.
I called in “wet” this morning since we are having a rainy day. Since I had an unexpected day off and a day inside, I did some computer housekeeping. This is when I found Pixelmator in my Apps folder. I think I like it. It speedy and small. And supports layers. But, not RAW. It is no Full Photoshop. Which I neither have nor need. But, it seems like a small and fast replacement for Photoshop Elements. PSE is not one of my favorite programs.
