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I think the secret to recovery from any addiction is to trade up for something less harmful until you get into beneficial addictions. LJ qualifies as beneficial for me.
I've been working insane hours trying to design my company's booth for a trade show. Yesterday was the drop dead date to get the designs submitted in order to get them printed in time.
( Here's my final approved design. )
To do it took a lot of searching for large images on our vendor's websites and a 30 day trial of a high end graphics package for the special effects. It also took a whole lot of rebooting my PC and scan disk because my boss only puts enough memory in employee PCs to barely cover the function of Windows and maybe one client access session. My job requires three sessions most of the time. To run the graphics program, I had to close down any other activities and be very careful not to open the huge images the printer needs to construct our posters. The first night I downloaded the images to my home PC and used irfanview to shrink them small enough to use. I burned them all on a CD.
Even so, if a customer called and needed support, I had to close down the graphics package to open up a work session or the PC would freeze up. If I accidently clicked on a huge image, the PC would freeze up. If I didn't save often enough when cleaning up an image background, the PC would freeze up.
After the first three days of frustration, I finally checked to see how much memory it actuall had. Can you believe I'm running Windows ME with only 64 MG of RAM??? Good grief! No wonder the poor PC was thrashing the disk so much. Finally, my boss was in my office when it froze yesterday morning. I told him what I'd discovered and told him I was trying very hard not to kill the hard disk but was also trying hard to meet the deadline. He said he had some memory in his office and to shut my PC down and disconnect it. He swapped the 64 MG for two 128 MG simms. After that, it only crashed twice all day.
He's very pleased with my design. The useless programmer guy doesn't think we need pictures in the booth at all. He's in disfavor with the boss at the moment. I was given the task of the booth design and getting the data ready for demo purposes (and re-recording the voice for the help button on the kiosk plus finishing the refinement of the buttons themselves) and Steve was given the task of arranging their travel and lodging. He and my boss are driving from California to Denver with all the equipment and the booth itself. They, a customer of ours and a guy from IBM will work the booth for the trade show.
You'd think he'd have an interest in the travel arrangements but after two days of no action, my boss got mad and handed it to me. I had all the arrangements done by the end of the day.
What a change from less than a month ago! Now I'm the golden employee and Steve's the bad guy.
Anyway, let's see... Last Saturday I drove my mom to a family reunion two hours away - this is her family and I'm a participant rather than an organizer for this one. I was hoping to see "my boys" but they and their uncle weren't there. Their grandfather was there and gave me a wonderful long bearhug. "My boys" are the orphaned sons of my cousin Judy. I'll share that sad story with you sometime. I was hoping to see them because it's been two years and the older one is graduating from high school this year. I had a little something for him.
The weekend was also my friend Sue's art show and I'd planned to go on Sunday but I couldn't wake up all day.
Got the bill for my demo "tape" yesterday. I hope that means I'll get a CD today!!!!!
I've been so doggone busy with work art that I haven't had time to do my cover art. GRRRRR.
I've been working insane hours trying to design my company's booth for a trade show. Yesterday was the drop dead date to get the designs submitted in order to get them printed in time.
( Here's my final approved design. )
To do it took a lot of searching for large images on our vendor's websites and a 30 day trial of a high end graphics package for the special effects. It also took a whole lot of rebooting my PC and scan disk because my boss only puts enough memory in employee PCs to barely cover the function of Windows and maybe one client access session. My job requires three sessions most of the time. To run the graphics program, I had to close down any other activities and be very careful not to open the huge images the printer needs to construct our posters. The first night I downloaded the images to my home PC and used irfanview to shrink them small enough to use. I burned them all on a CD.
Even so, if a customer called and needed support, I had to close down the graphics package to open up a work session or the PC would freeze up. If I accidently clicked on a huge image, the PC would freeze up. If I didn't save often enough when cleaning up an image background, the PC would freeze up.
After the first three days of frustration, I finally checked to see how much memory it actuall had. Can you believe I'm running Windows ME with only 64 MG of RAM??? Good grief! No wonder the poor PC was thrashing the disk so much. Finally, my boss was in my office when it froze yesterday morning. I told him what I'd discovered and told him I was trying very hard not to kill the hard disk but was also trying hard to meet the deadline. He said he had some memory in his office and to shut my PC down and disconnect it. He swapped the 64 MG for two 128 MG simms. After that, it only crashed twice all day.
He's very pleased with my design. The useless programmer guy doesn't think we need pictures in the booth at all. He's in disfavor with the boss at the moment. I was given the task of the booth design and getting the data ready for demo purposes (and re-recording the voice for the help button on the kiosk plus finishing the refinement of the buttons themselves) and Steve was given the task of arranging their travel and lodging. He and my boss are driving from California to Denver with all the equipment and the booth itself. They, a customer of ours and a guy from IBM will work the booth for the trade show.
You'd think he'd have an interest in the travel arrangements but after two days of no action, my boss got mad and handed it to me. I had all the arrangements done by the end of the day.
What a change from less than a month ago! Now I'm the golden employee and Steve's the bad guy.
Anyway, let's see... Last Saturday I drove my mom to a family reunion two hours away - this is her family and I'm a participant rather than an organizer for this one. I was hoping to see "my boys" but they and their uncle weren't there. Their grandfather was there and gave me a wonderful long bearhug. "My boys" are the orphaned sons of my cousin Judy. I'll share that sad story with you sometime. I was hoping to see them because it's been two years and the older one is graduating from high school this year. I had a little something for him.
The weekend was also my friend Sue's art show and I'd planned to go on Sunday but I couldn't wake up all day.
Got the bill for my demo "tape" yesterday. I hope that means I'll get a CD today!!!!!
I've been so doggone busy with work art that I haven't had time to do my cover art. GRRRRR.
