April 29, 2015

 Guess what today was? Another day. Yep. Filled with testing and other random things. I look forward to the near future when my days won't be filled with testing. It is on the horizon.

As far as I can remember, the testing was uneventful. You think that would be a reliable indication that testing was in fact uneventful but my memory has failed me before. Oh well.

When I wasn't testing I did other work-related things as well as school-related things. Yesterday I made a fake university letterhead for my group project and today I came up with a coat of arms or seal or whatever you call it, for the fake university. It's got a quill, a scroll, an ebook, and a regular book. I think it looks pretty decent. I got the okay from at least a few of my group members so tonight I went ahead and added the letterhead with the seal to the top of all the pages and I made a smaller version of the seal for the bottom of each page. I like it. I mainly did all that as a distraction from finishing the work on my own page. So I have once again put off summarizing bibliographic sources and formatting my page until tomorrow. It's gotta happen for real tomorrow though because I still have to write a freaking research paper. In a perfect world, I'll be able to finish that this weekend, at the very latest by next Tuesday, so I can enjoy my birthday and maybe even install my new fans and graphics card. Odds are good I won't finish it until the due date the Sunday after next, however.

I got the skilled people at Chipotle today. When I asked for extra rice and beans, I got a lot of freaking rice and beans. And I asked for a little cheese to hold it all together and ended up getting a lot of cheese, but not to the level of too much. The last girl also knew how to efficiently add guacamole to tacos, using a knife to get it off the spoon rather than trying to shake it off the spoon in even amounts, which rarely works well and takes a lot longer than just grabbing a knife.

Tonight I made the aforementioned changes to the group pages. During that process I made the images look better. I made them in Publisher and I originally tried saving the letterhead as a PNG but the quality sucked so I switched to saving it as a PDF, which looked a lot better, but the quality went down a bit after uploading it to Imgur, which converted it to a PNG. Well, tonight I had a thought and noticed that when I went to save as a PNG the default quality was low. When I bumped it up to high, not surprisingly, the final image looked a lot better. It also didn't lose much when I uploaded it to Imgur and added it to the pages. It looks so much better now than it did before. It is really noticeable in the smaller font on the letterhead and the small seal at the bottom. I'm glad I made that discovery.

I also finished reading the textbook chapter for this week and made my discussion post for my other class. It would be nice to not have one this week, or next week (although we may not next week), so we can focus on our research papers. But who am I. I do really like what I was able to come up with for my post, though. It'll be a good one to go out on if it is in fact the last one. Tomorrow and at least one or two more days I'll need to respond to a couple questions show I can get the full points for this week. I want to get all the points I can which will give me the most room for error on my research paper. I hope I'm able to pull it off without a problem but just in case I want some wiggle room.

Lastly, it was my friend's birthday today. Thirty is an easy birthday to find ecards for. So I sent him a bunch. Most of them were about being really old. But one called him a princess. And I included some of the Ryan Gosling 'Hey Girl' meme. The opportunity presented itself and I went for it. He called me a douchebag and said I had a week, so the clock is ticking. Still worth it.