It's been frigid here for awhile in the Southern Finger Lakes.
My wise catalpa-- the last to get leaves in the spring and the last
to shed leaves
was still green yesterday. Overnight, it dropped all but four of its
grand, heart shaped
leaves, which now pool around the trunk . The Acer Maple, also
young and younger than the catalpa, dropped its bright yellow leaves
last night too.
For the past several weeks I've been in a flurry of designing,
writing and making -- masks
and patterns for them. I finished my third pattern yesterday which
I'm calling the Song Bird Mask.
The first is the Akua Bird Mask and the second, the Phoenix Bird
Mask. I was saddened to find that I am again at the edge of
viability in terms of technology.
I had figured out several work-arounds to create a 728 by 90 pixel ad for the
the first mask pattern. The sun still shone, at the beginning of the
month when I was taking pictures,
so I had some clear shots and I aimed to have the inexpensive ad run
to a targeted audience
for a mere $5. However the last step, translating from a pdf to a
jpg, left the images slightly blurry.
And no matter how high the initial resolution, after sizing them down
to 90 and then going from
word to pdf, pdf to jpg, the final translation blurred the pix. So
this has been very depressing.
When i can stay in the flow, I can ignore the constant pain, and the
annoyance of not being able to move because my legs fly off the foot
rests. More than once lately, I've twisted my foot or ankle, only
realizing that it was to the side or behind when i couldn't roll any
further.
And the cold dark makes me tired, I'm up until 6,7,8 am then sleep
until 2 or 3 which makes it hard to get much done because this is an
area where social services close at 3.
Help:my once a week aid forgot to get the cat treats. How could this
be, when I give her a computer printed list, with tick boxes, item
location and prices? I haven't bought the cat anything for months and
it was his birthday last Tuesday and she for the 97 cent bag of
treats for him. And she offered to go back and get it and I said
there wasn't time. I only have her for two hours and I needed help,
putting the recycling out, modeling a prototype,getting the last roll
of paper towels off the high shelf where I tossed it.
It would help to have help, but I can't afford it, and it would be
great to get sales, but I barely have the tools -- and if I had more
money, would I get help, or buy a new computer with an OS than can
run some of the new free
programs, or would I just buy more protein so I can fix my anemia?
Yeah. BOO!
Akua
HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!!!
JANE/SPLENDORA TX
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