OK – Well, I was finally going to update my blog….. However, with all the new, great electronic toys I’ve moved into lately I can’t seem to figure out how to do anything. As I mentioned before, we have had lots of changes around our house. Add to that – I am re-learning 15+ years of computer as I know it to become a Mac user. I anticipated frustration, but not to the level I’m having fun with. Everything is still taking me twice, three times the amount of time it would have before and probably more than for what it should on the Mac — if only I knew what I was doing! 🙂 I also got my dream software (CS4) and an iPhone…’cuz I was bored and needed more to figure out?!
Anyway, apparently no Apple products come with user manuals?!!!!!!!! Why? I am one of those sick people who actually reads the manual (when I can’t figure it out the first 3 or 4 times on my own), then I get the manual, and when I’m done figuring it out I’ve learned how to do it well. So, I now have my 15K photos (no, this is not an exaggeration- the actual number is over by several hundred) moved into the Mac, but can not figure out use PhotoShop or how to reduce the quality to put them on the blog. I’m too impatient to wait for multiple full size photos to load, so here I am with a folder of photos to reduce but can’t figure out how. As for the iPhone, yeah…I’m barely able to use the phone, and most often can’t figure out how to answer it. When my fingers are cold or I’m wearing mittens – forget it! I did learn how to text last week :)! It just took 4 people showing me – I managed to send myself a text and it looked like someone else sent it! Those showing me at the time were really impressed…
So, now I have sufficiently rambled about nothing – sorry, the hazard of homework assignments that have a minimum word count. Really, do you think a minimum word count is effective when it mostly teaches you to say a little bit with LOTS of words? Or, how about the times they want a huge answer in no more than 100 words? Did you know 100 words is 3-5 sentences? OK – so I’m done whining now. I’m going to do a couple more posts, maybe I’m secretly hoping most won’t scroll down this far & see all my whining over new things I should be and really am happy about :). (just an FYI – this whiny, say nothing post is 453 words!)