Summer School
The kids have a couple of activities lined up for the summer; camps and whatnot. While looking for these activities in the brochures and online catalogs, I noticed there are many night school offerings for adults. Berta and I took a few couples’ classes at the Kitchen Workshop in the past, learning how to make Moroccan, Mediterranean, and Cajun food. Those were pretty fun. But I’d like to take some other types of classes, or participate in other events, assuming they’re affordable.
The one I’m most looking into is a Photoshop training class. I can use Photoshop to a certain degree, but I mostly depend on Fireworks for my day-to-day web development requirements. (Fireworks is better for web work than Photoshop, feature-wise.) But I would like to learn the more compositional/creative features of Photoshop, not just the slice and resample features that I use for work. I’d like to learn how to use Photoshop to compose a graphic, and how to use its retouching tools to fix photos I’ve taken myself. These are things that I either don’t know well or don’t know at all, and would love to have just a basic course to force me through the basics.
Last Girl Scout Cookie Season, Riley was out with Berta and Abby at one of the tables they had set up to sell cookies near Acme. He had taken his iPod Touch with him to keep him occupied, and it was doing a good job. As they were cleaning up, he accidentally dropped it on the sidewalk and cracked the screen.
Looking at the calendar on my phone, which is connected to several Google calendars, I see a mess of events. There are things that are scheduled for specific times of day, and there are things that are scheduled for “all day”. That’s what’s bugging me today, the “all day event”.
I travel with my notebook, probably not as much as many people do, but enough. One of the heaviest things in my notebook bag is the notebook charger. For whatever reason over the years, the design of notebook chargers has not improved at all.