New Bookshelf & Other Stuff

My plan for  today is to go out to get a book case for our bedroom. Actually, we have one and and it is full of books but then I have DVDs piled up on there too. So, what I mainly want the bookcase for is DVDs. I reminded myself this morning that I still have some DVDs I didn’t finish watching when I was in the I-Gotta-Have-Every-Star-Trek-DVD-Ever-Made mood! I tend to get crazes and then go off them for a while but I eventually DO go back.

Right now I am back on photography and programs to change the pictures. I can spend hours on this as I did yesterday. I made at least a dozen versions of the upside-down tomato but only came out with two I decided to keep.  {If you haven’t seen them and want to, they are back one entry.} My usual method these days to learn something new is to jump in and see what I can do by myself first. This is followed by tutorials. I am still at the playing around stage with Corel Painter Essentials and  Adobe Photoshop Elements. Jumping in and playing around and THEN doing tutorials is perhaps not the best way for most people to learn, but it does seem to be the way *I* learn best.

Last night, Fred and I went out to eat at our local diner. Fred’s daughters have been buying him gift certificates for this place and we enjoy using them. Fred had scallops and I had a chiliburger. I get a lot of eye-rolls when I get a burger of one kind or another but, hey, that is what I want so that’s what I get! We also had dessert which we don’t usually have. I had blackberry crisp. I love blackberries even though they leave my teeth full of pips! I was offered ice cream to go with it but I said no. However, I did go with the cream suggestion.

Thinking about going out today, I am reminded it is Saturday and everyone who works during the week will be out there today. I may put off my trip until Monday. {You can do that sort of thing when you are retired! }

QUOTATIONS:

"Step by step. I can’t think of any other way of accomplishing anything."

Michael Jordan

"Fear not for the future, weep not for the past."

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet