Proof Positive That I AM the Biggest Nerd

..at least in the eastern Seattle suburbs:
My class was cancelled. They could only get about 7 people to sign up for 3 sections, total. *Sigh*.
I was able to cancel one of the books (the expensive one, thankfully), but the other two are on their way. I’m bummed that I don’t get to discuss the essays with other people. Maybe I’ll try and push one of the collections on my book group.
And, sadly for this site, I won’t be getting a lot of practice in writing better for now. (And considering how clunky that sentence was, lack of practice is a bad thing…)
But, in the way that life so often works, things have come about in the meantime to make this canceled class into a good thing. Crazy, huh? That’s one of the big reasons I can’t shake my faith in God. Believing “the Universe” conspired together in my favor just doesn’t jive for me….Anyway, as I was saying, meanwhile, things have happened. Specifically, I am now the surprised and thrilled owner of a brand new refurbished computer. Actually, not just a new computer, but the computer of my dreams!
My current computer is from 2000 or 2001 and it’s a bit curmudgeonly. It laughs at “YouTube”, thinking it’s some new-fangled thing those kids are doing these days. It refused point-blank to run Photoshop. Its speakers are from long before the iTunes era. I was quite willing to limp along because, well, I just didn’t think we could justify purchasing a new one. But Dave has been obsessively checking the “Refurbished” portion of the Dell website and one day – there it was. Dave called me from work and rattled off the specs (killer processor – check…..high-speed video card – check….flamingo pink cover – check, check check!). We deliberated a long time finally putting it in the online shopping cart and hitting “charge”. Dave just got a bonus, and although we still have some large, looming medical bills, we decided to just do it.
So what does this have to do with my class being cancelled? Well, now that I have a new computer, I can actually run Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Since one of things I think I may want to do when I grow up is Web Design and content managment (I’ve done a teeny bit already, but only with the crazy kluged-together tools I have…), I was really wanting to take some classes in the design tools I need to learn. So now I’ve enrolled in an Illustrator class at the local technical college. Of course, I still have to figure out how to buy the pen tablet and software I need want…. but that’s a challenge for another day.
So the writing around here may not improve, but the graphics may!

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