Today was fairly laid back. This
morning before work even started one of the paras came in with a
request from one of the first grade teachers. She wanted me to scan
a small paper snowman hat and make twelve copies. Instead, I found
one online and printed out twenty-five to cover the whole class
because I figured it would look better if they were all the same hat,
instead of twelve “real” ones and twelve scanned ones. I never
heard anything about it so I'm assuming it worked out.
Then one of the kindergarten
teachers came in and wanted to take a PDF and print it twice on a
piece of paper to save space. I messed with the printer settings for
a second but nothing immediately worked so I downloaded the PDF,
opened it in Gimp, saved it as a PNG, dropped it into a landscape
Publisher document, resized it to half the page, copied it to the
other side of the page, and printed out twenty-four copies. Maybe a
little convoluted but it worked.
And that was pretty much the peak of
my work day. I had classes in the lab and helped with a printer
issue and a sound issue on a laptop, but I think that was it. Oh,
and I watched a couple more MAP videos and installed the new MAP link
onto all of the computers in the lab. That went surprisingly fast.
In my free time I emailed my grandma
and sent her a picture of my Christmas tree and a short video of the
train running. I also made a couple more pictures with my new cross
stitch brush in GIMP. I'm still liking it and I will probably end up
playing with it more tomorrow. I think I could make some cool stuff
with it.
After work I went to Jo-Ann's to buy
embroidery hoops. I decided rather than getting the small owl
framed, or making it twice as big, I could put it in a three inch
hoop and turn it into an ornament, or just a small thing to put
somewhere. I should have picked up some fabric to cover up the back
but I didn't so I might go to Hobby Lobby tomorrow and see if they
have scraps.
After dinner I finished the owl
cross stitch and it looks pretty good. I took a picture of it and I
don't know what happened but parts of it look like it is in 3D on my
phone. It's really weird. It ended up being slightly off-center and
it might just barely fit in the three inch hoop. I started with a
scrap so and didn't have the idea for the hoop yet so it's my own
fault. But if it doesn't work I'll just make another one.
I discovered that I can use my phone
as a webcam and it looks way better than my webcam. Thanks in large
part because the phone can focus a lot closer than the webcam. That
might become a thing. I just need to figure out how to mount it
above me.
Soon I will be going to bed.
Tomorrow is Friday and I am looking forward to it. I'm thinking I
might start watching Christmas stuff tomorrow.
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