I think I’ve found a way to avoid ever having to make a bulletin board again. There’s a website that will turn any photo into a poster. You upload the picture and set the size that you want (and a few other things) and it creates a PDF file that you can printout, trim and hangup. I’ve been wanting to try it for a while, and didn’t have a reason. I finally decided that I didn’t need a reason for a test, and in video editing class we put this up on the wall. We would have put it in Nathan Bassett’s room, but we couldn’t lure him out of it.
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Hee hee hee
Whatever could this be for?
We have a laptop! It was supposed to be for school, but I’ve already named it, so now it’s mine. It’s SOOOOOOOOO cute! Teeny-tiny, and cute as a button. It arrived last week (9 3/4 by 7 1/2 inches , 2 lbs 11 oz, brown eyes, brown hair), and it’s delightful! It came with a weeny little sleeve, though, and since I’ll be toting it to and from school, I sewed a new sleeve out of the remains of the Slanket and a windbreaker. Good enough for who it’s for.
So, how tiny is it? Tiny.
Cameras are cool
When I was a kid, my sister had a whole herd of those toy horses (about ten inches high?) and my brothers loved to build models of planes and stuff. One of their activities was to set the horse/model on the sidewalk, have the owner go stand way back in the nursing home’s yard*, and have the photographer lie on his/her stomach in our yard and snap a photo that looked like Keren was petting her horse, or that Mark or Phil were standing by their car or plane. I don’t think I was allowed to help, since I’ve had poor photography skills since birth. However, the idea of trick photography is still a good one.
For instance, the two boys who built this:
Were in awe that it could look like this:
“It’s like a real tunnel!” See, Brad – tiny dinosaurs. That’s where it’s at.
* Yes, I grew up next to a nursing home. It was a little strange.
How thoughtful
Before Saturday’s trip to Lincoln I was in kind of a rush, so I didn’t get any hairspray put in my hair to keep it in its normally perfectly-coiffed state. (Time out for laughter.) My hair looked so bad I was thinking about buying some hairspray, but I happen to have several containers around the house due to this very situation. (I just buy a can/bottle, fix it, bring it home and add it to the pile.) I didn’t want to do that this time, and considered going into a haircut place and asking them if I could give them a quarter to use a quick spritz.
Well, it just so happened that one of my stops for the day was the restaurant supply store (which I love). I had to use the bathroom, and saw this:
Obviously some woman works there, because only a woman knows that other women sometimes need supplies.
Sure enough, it was chock-full of stuff. Extra t.p., cleaning things, Girl Things, tape, lotion, several spray bottle of body spray, a couple of deodorants (*jibblie*), a bottle of detangler, and surprisingly – a brand-new in-the-blister-pack toothbrush. I could have camped there! No hairspray, though, so I used air freshener. Kidding! (or am I?)
I guess he showed me.
We went to the state surplus auction today. Well, Lloyd went while I ran around doing errands. When I came back, I was pleased to see that he showed great restraint and actually bought useful things – two laser printers for school. Two GIANT laser printers. I told him there was no way we would ever fit even one in the car, so let’s just go get lunch and he could pick them up another day. (Auctions make me hungry.)
He proved me wrong. We didn’t just get one in the back seat – we got two. And by ‘we’, I mean ‘he’.
Of course, it wasn’t a completely perfect day. Somehow, Lloyd thinks he broke his finger at the auction. It wasn’t loading the printers, it was some other mystery time. He thinks a ninja probably broke it. Sneaky ninjas.
Perfectly normal
I am not tied to ending dates. Sure, Halloween was over… what? Half a month ago? But just as I don’t enjoy the rush to put Christmas stuff out so early, I’m also in no rush to take holiday stuff down. I had to come home for a bit this afternoon to do some computer stuff, and noticed that the Halloween decorations are still up. I took some of them down, but just some. That’s enough for now, right?