having landed in the city that care forgot, gotten myself some overalls and other street-urchin gear (next up: these) and fully dedicated myself to the idea of not working at my job for an ENTIRE MONTH, i find myself with - no surprise - a lot of time on my hands.
that is, when i'm (we're) not sleeping through the hot part of the day, which seems to last between approximately 9:30am and 8:00pm, eating delicious snack plates such as this one -
- and trying to convince the dog to stop eating bones people have tossed on the street. with this wealth of time, i have already begun many projects, including one where i allow people to look at some photos i have taken. unfortunately this particular venture has stalled in its infancy because i am easily overwhelmed by photo software.
on the advice of some asshat on the internet, relatively long ago (in a digital age, a month is a lifetime) i downloaded gimp. i do not regret this decision, even though it confuses me quite frequently. i turned off the little tips it gives at start-up (example: when the somethingsomething doesn't appear in bold, it doesn't have an alpha channel, somethingsomething, etc.) because they were making me feel panicky. but when i muddle through, and occasionally i do, i am generally pleased with the results.
that snack plate is another example. hardly sham-gallery material, but still quite a nice effort for someone who has yet actually to decide what to do with her life.
i also, like everyone with these white boxes, and i presume also the people with the silver and gray and black boxes with fruit silhouettes on them, have iphoto. to my novice but decidedly utilitarian eye it seems to suck bigtime. mostly because it appears to create extra files where none are needed. i thought this was a folly reserved solely for PCs and their affiliate manufacturers.
it's not as though i want to really do much with my pictures. so far i like the crop option, the resize option, and the brightness/contrast adjuster thingy, because working together they sometimes pull off the impression that i know more than i do about taking pictures.
maybe i should have stuck with my original plan to write the great american novel.
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