Well at long last I upgraded the memory in my computer from 256mb to a 1280mb with the addition of a nice, new 1 gig stick 🙂
People on all the mb’s always say “blah to run photoshop etc etc you need at least 1gig of ram blah!” To which I sit in my chair and think about those days back only a couple of years ago when I was running a Pentium 100 with maybe 128mb ram more likely it was 64mb and creating 3-D landscapes in Bryce, sure when I went to render the scenes it took a while but it was only 30mins or an hour.
Then using photoshop now, sure I might have had to wait a while for my RAWs to appear when I was viewing them but it was not a long wait. All about patience but with memory getting cheaper all the time, I upgraded today and it does make my computer run a lot nicer and the RAW’s appear like magic 🙂
and Karl, I got the right type this time 🙂 and it fitted nicely in the slot so no more blowing up computers with Helen putting the wrong sort of memory into a slot and swearing it fitted.
The walk on the w/e was great and I am going out with Mum again on walks for sure like I am this weekend for a whole weekend away, where I am meant to go walking!
I had an orthodontist appointment yesterday morning in an attempt to fix the problems they had made the week before in tightening my plate. Well they managed to adjust it so that it doesn’t hurt to wear it but it does not sit at all properly in my mouth. Going back again this Friday in an attempt to fix the error again as they don’t want to have to make a new plate as they only made the last one six months ago.
My orthodontist treatment is the story of my life and will come some time in another post but in short, I have been going to the UQ Dental School since late 1995, yep almost half my life. I once saw a sticker advertising the UQ Vet Clinic, saying “My dog goes to Uni” well in my case I need a sticker that says “My teeth go to Uni”. I have seen the professors and students come and go. I have told students info that they didn’t yet know much to the satisfaction of the professors. Treatment may be slow but hey costs are nil 🙂
So back to the story, my appointment was at 9am and I had an exam (reading comprehension) at uni at noon. Since I was in the city with time to kill and the shops were open. I headed down to Queens Plaza, where I wanted to check out the belts at Fossil, as many, many months ago Tracy Kyle on her defunct blog had linked to these uber cool belts. Well they didn’t have the belts I was looking for and looking at the Fossil website seems like they were discontinued, however I did find this uber cool belt and then I also found this gorgeous new purse.
How cool are they 🙂 🙂 and now I no longer have to steal Matthew’s belts when I need one 🙂
Popped my head into Ewan Gardams and came out with some gorgeous 2.5″ wide lace, wandered past a shop window and found what Matthew, Pabbi and I are going to give Mum for Christmas (I’d tell you but Mum reads this so can’t do).
Went to Uni, had the exam, came back into the city, just missed my bus so stopped into Borders who for the first time I have ever seen were having a 3 for 2 magazine sale! Yehaw! But oh the trouble of finding 3 magazines, I rarely buy or look at scrapbooking magazines so none of them really pulled my interest.
I looked for Real Simple but they were sold out, then I browsed the craft section and found my Holy Grail. A magazine aimed at my generation for both Guys and Chicks, in a style I had not seen before sort of Wired crossed with a DIY mag. It is Ready Made and with a by-line “instructions for everyday life”, how could one go wrong? This mag rocks!
Then finding two other magazine, silly Borders does not carry any British Photo magazines and frankly I have not found a US magazine that compares to the British Mags. So no photo magazines. Looked at the cooking mags and none really grabbed me then in the Women’s Interest section stumbled on a magazine called Budget Living again Real Simple in style but no where near as crafty as Ready Made. Score two great new magazine finds.
Then I browsed aimlessly over the shelves trying to find the third of “free” magazine. Easy Living was my eventual find. Sort of a more classic “women’s magazine” but it does have some gorgeous photos 🙂
Well I am off to bed for an early start in the morning as Mum and I are heading out to Lamington to do the Dave’s Creek Circuit with her bushwalking buddies, I’m just going along for the promise of new things to photograph 🙂
Well I went to see one of my lecturers today, after not been happy with the mark I had received for an essay (65/100). When I first walked in he said he had already decided to push it up to 68/100 as he felt that he probably marked me harder than others, after chatting with him some more about my essay he bumped it up to 70/100. Yehaw!
Busy in the midst of starting another essay on possible effects of terrorism on the economies of states in East Asia and finishing off a quilt for my nephew Jökull or if you want to be pedantic, my half-sister’s step son. My family tree is a tree with branches all over the place 🙂
When I first went to Iceland at the end of 2002, the quilts that Mum had made for her step-grandchildren were proudly covering every bed, when I got home I said to Mum, you should make quilts for the step-step grandkids as well. She said I will make two; you can make the other two. So Mum has made one for Toti’s eldest step-child, Anna Rún and has the fabric for the other one for Stefan. I was delegated to make quilts for Herdis’s step-kids, the first one was sent off for her eldest step-son, Krissi after last year’s show and now I am in the final stages of the quilt for her other step-son, Jökull or as we call him “Little Glacier Boy” as Jökull means glacier in Icelandic for this year’s show.
When it came to naming the quilt for the competition, I expanded on Jökull’s name and titled the quilt “Magical Powers for Glacier Boy” and in the comment section said a little bit about Jökull and how he is Iceland’s answer to Superman 🙂 Depending on which banner you get when you load my blog, you may have seen Jökull showing off his magical powers lifting rocks to make a dam. Dam Builders
Well enough with all the chatter, here is the quilt, tonight I sewed the blue borders on to the quilt top and tomorrow, Mum and I are going shopping for the backing fabric
After way too many weeks of me giving Mum most of my paycheck and then fairly often having to get money back off her I now own my 350D
Yehaw! Now since she is all mine, I have to come up with a name. Olga the second is what comes to mind at the moment in memory of my basoon from high school. Any other ideas???
This of course means that I can start pouring money into glass and other sorts. I don’t think I yet want a telephoto zoom as most of my images are at wide angle end of my lenses. I am currently tossing up between a Pelang 8mm Fisheye or a Zenitar 16mm Fisheye. Both are Eastern European made lenses that get rave reviews, when paired with the 1.6x crop loose a bit of the fishiness but still work very well. Oh which one to get?
I am also quite piqued by the Canon 100m 2.8 Macro, it would serve two purposes for me; providing a bit extra reach than the 24-85mm gives me at the moment as well as the macro aspect.
came the small ad’s, I have to say none are as good as the Big Ad, however they do provide a good laugh.
The first one comes from BlipTv – The Small Ad, not an Australian beer this time but Belgian.
That is what I am at the moment.
You see I was meant to start work at 5am this morning like I do every monday to put up the new price tickets in the dairy section so all shoppers are happy, knowing they have the right price for their milk and frozen veg. All well and good I double checked my alarm making sure it said 4:25am and it was on buzzer because the radio never wakes me up.
However, did I check to see if the time was right? nope my clock was twelve hours ahead! Yesterday in my cleaning, I had knocked the alarm cord out replugged in pretty close to midday so it was only “5 mins” out when I fixed the time last night, I had said to myself when I sat down to do it, have to change it from am to pm. Did I though? Nope.
So when Mum woke me up at 10 to 7 and I rang work, I sure gave them all a fit of giggles over my tale of my alarm clock and I crashed back to bed giggling my head off 🙂
So to give you the giggling gerties here are some things to share.
Big Ad – This ad, whilst been one for an Australian beer is not just for the beer drinkers, this is for everyone, an utter crack-up of an ad, some of you have seen it, some have not. I still watch it every couple of days.
Rare Exports Inc by Woodpecker Films – Another ad for adult beverages, this one however was designed for the launch of a new pre-mixed drink in Finland was shown before movies in the cinema. Rare Exports. Note it is a large (66mb) download but so, so worth it.
Something for those with lower back tats – the future – Another total crack up.
French Bull – The plates and mixing spoons were in out saturday paper, which Mum and I fell in adoration for and then on the website they have pj’s! So want some of them
