A smidge behind
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hrjI didn't quite make it to tonight's lecture presentation goals. (It had something to do with getting caught up in data analysis at work and staying until 7pm because there was a correlation I wanted to confirm just for my own curiosity. I should try to avoid having involved work-projects at the same time as involved non-work projects.)
The basic layout for the handout exists, the text-only portions are in place, and the figures for the tunic-types part (about 3/4 of the graphics) are done. I still need to do the leg-garments figures and the little bits of joining text for the figures. I think I'm just going to freehand the leg garments and scan them in -- I still haven't quite gotten the hang of the CS2 version of Photoshop and I keep getting hung up on not knowing where the controls and adjustments are for functions that I know I've used in previous versions. And freehand drawing is one of the things I haven't gotten back yet. (Don't everyone inundate me with tips and hints at the moment -- I've picked up the sledgehammer and started swinging and anyone who starts explaining to me how to hand-forge a scalpel may end up as collateral damage.)
I did go off and pick up a new combo wireless presentation controller cum laser pointer (with built in presentation timer). And I just barely missed visual confirmation of the (flesh-and-blood) mouse but got a solid audio confirmation. If the cat has not done her duty by this weekend, I'm getting a trap.
ETA: And we have visual confirmation. Habemus rattus. An adolescent, to be sure, but not a mouse. I think perhaps a trap is called for sooner rather than later.
So tomorrow's lunch project is working up the leg garment sketches and drafting all the remaining text so that I only have to type it in tomorrow evening. Also noting reality-check timepoints in my thumbnail copies of the presentation slides so that I'll know if I start getting too far off schedule. (A problem with a two hour lecture.) That means the handouts get printed Friday after work (and it means I've eliminated the possibility of doing a movie any night this week). But it's all good.
The basic layout for the handout exists, the text-only portions are in place, and the figures for the tunic-types part (about 3/4 of the graphics) are done. I still need to do the leg-garments figures and the little bits of joining text for the figures. I think I'm just going to freehand the leg garments and scan them in -- I still haven't quite gotten the hang of the CS2 version of Photoshop and I keep getting hung up on not knowing where the controls and adjustments are for functions that I know I've used in previous versions. And freehand drawing is one of the things I haven't gotten back yet. (Don't everyone inundate me with tips and hints at the moment -- I've picked up the sledgehammer and started swinging and anyone who starts explaining to me how to hand-forge a scalpel may end up as collateral damage.)
I did go off and pick up a new combo wireless presentation controller cum laser pointer (with built in presentation timer). And I just barely missed visual confirmation of the (flesh-and-blood) mouse but got a solid audio confirmation. If the cat has not done her duty by this weekend, I'm getting a trap.
ETA: And we have visual confirmation. Habemus rattus. An adolescent, to be sure, but not a mouse. I think perhaps a trap is called for sooner rather than later.
So tomorrow's lunch project is working up the leg garment sketches and drafting all the remaining text so that I only have to type it in tomorrow evening. Also noting reality-check timepoints in my thumbnail copies of the presentation slides so that I'll know if I start getting too far off schedule. (A problem with a two hour lecture.) That means the handouts get printed Friday after work (and it means I've eliminated the possibility of doing a movie any night this week). But it's all good.
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Habemus rattus
Date: 2008-07-31 02:15 pm (UTC)A good old plastic box trap with peanut butter on it kills quickly and humanely (well, as humane as killing can get, I suppose).
Good luck!
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Date: 2008-07-31 03:57 pm (UTC)I send people to your website all the time for the archaeological sewing.
Re: Habemus rattus
Date: 2008-07-31 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-01 07:48 pm (UTC)Any chance you'd be open to re-emailing that? e-mail is eli (at) eligoldberg (dot) com.
Thanks!