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The messing around in Photoshop was only half successful. When you start with an image that isn't very high-resolution in the first place, and then try to make it bigger, there isn't much to be done about it. However, the other project was a smashing success, to the point where now I've got two versions of it and I can't decide which one I like better.
I came home last night and discovered that the trumpet vine and the fence across from my front door have both been demolished. Most of the fence is still there, but the section that was holding the vine up is gone. I wonder what they're going to do now?
Today I must remember to buy stamps. I went to the bookstore yesterday and bought some generic graduation announcements, because personalized ones are exorbitantly expensive and I wanted to let my undergrad advisor know what the recommendation letter she wrote for me when I applied to grad school did for me. (I think I remember telling her I'd been accepted, but I can't swear to that.) You have to buy the announcements in packs of 10, so after I send one to my undergrad advisor and one to each set of grandparents, I'll have seven left over, and I haven't a clue what to do with them.
I also discovered in the course of buying announcements that the bookstore is having a pretty good small-electronics sale. I'm considering a bit of semi-profligate spending, because my current portable CD player is getting tired. It still works fine, but the mechanical parts make worrisome buzzing noises when it starts spinning a CD. Considering that a new one would usually be $80 but is now $45, I think it's justifiable. (The graduation regalia I'll only wear once cost more than that.) I know, I know, I should just get an iPod. Not until I have income again, thanks. [EDIT: Score! The bookstore is having a "25% off everything that was already on sale" day. So I got the CD player and some other necessary odds and ends for $35.]
The other night my father and I were talking about desks, and he suggested the cheapest way to get a bigger desk is to buy a hollow-core door and a couple of small filing cabinets. I said "right, and the door will even have a hole in it for the computer cables", which floored him for a second, and then he thought it was hilarious. He hadn't been thinking about pre-bored doors. I don't think I've ever zinged him in his own profession before. Maybe you had to be there, but both of us were snickering about that for the next five minutes.
Time to go run errands, and come home and start printing things.
I came home last night and discovered that the trumpet vine and the fence across from my front door have both been demolished. Most of the fence is still there, but the section that was holding the vine up is gone. I wonder what they're going to do now?
Today I must remember to buy stamps. I went to the bookstore yesterday and bought some generic graduation announcements, because personalized ones are exorbitantly expensive and I wanted to let my undergrad advisor know what the recommendation letter she wrote for me when I applied to grad school did for me. (I think I remember telling her I'd been accepted, but I can't swear to that.) You have to buy the announcements in packs of 10, so after I send one to my undergrad advisor and one to each set of grandparents, I'll have seven left over, and I haven't a clue what to do with them.
I also discovered in the course of buying announcements that the bookstore is having a pretty good small-electronics sale. I'm considering a bit of semi-profligate spending, because my current portable CD player is getting tired. It still works fine, but the mechanical parts make worrisome buzzing noises when it starts spinning a CD. Considering that a new one would usually be $80 but is now $45, I think it's justifiable. (The graduation regalia I'll only wear once cost more than that.) I know, I know, I should just get an iPod. Not until I have income again, thanks. [EDIT: Score! The bookstore is having a "25% off everything that was already on sale" day. So I got the CD player and some other necessary odds and ends for $35.]
The other night my father and I were talking about desks, and he suggested the cheapest way to get a bigger desk is to buy a hollow-core door and a couple of small filing cabinets. I said "right, and the door will even have a hole in it for the computer cables", which floored him for a second, and then he thought it was hilarious. He hadn't been thinking about pre-bored doors. I don't think I've ever zinged him in his own profession before. Maybe you had to be there, but both of us were snickering about that for the next five minutes.
Time to go run errands, and come home and start printing things.
