Day 302 ~ "E" is for Edit(ing) & e-mail

Today's "E" word is very appropriate being that I spent most of my day and all of my evening Edit(ing).  

I was just about to start sharing with you that all I have been doing all day is working on my blog.  I have been taking my time building my website, transferring my younger (smaller) blog ...  I finally went WordPress. ( on one blog anyway.)  Boy oh boy! 

However, as I started thinking about it, Edit(ing) is not just for programming, graphic design or even word processors anymore.  I remember once, when I lived in Los Angeles.. of course (can you hear the snooty-ness? lol,) someone that I had been talking to in line at Starbuck's used the word for "cleaning"... as in ... I was just off to edit my desk...  Edit my desk? I thought, hmmm.  Interesting.  (now keep in mind that I was in Venice Beach at the time.)  I sat there and thought for a moment... I got it!  I said out loud, and found that the entire Starbuck's had turned around to look at me.  What do I do?  Laugh.  What else could I have done?  There was no way out of this one, not this time. 


It's amazing to me how technology has come about in the last thirty years, and to have witnessed it all... way cool!  I remember my father's computer store we had in the mid 80s... let me tell you, computers have come a long way since then.  First time I laid eyes on and used Windows, it was version 3.1 (1992), before then we used DOS based programs that were basic menus.  Today I barely remember a few basic DOS commands... (with me, it's use it or loose it, when it comes to retaining information.)  Then slowly, the internet started coming about. 

Then technology made it possible for us to be able to send e-mail (ooooo, I almost let this one get by.. lol  ooo ooo "E" word) more or less instantly... there is something to be said about a more personal touch.  With that said, I could not live without either one of them!  (btw e personal touch, is now found in my work) 

**something you may not know about me- I have a knack with graphic design/photo editing software like Photoshop, paint.net and can create a ton with MS Office Publisher! (actually, I'm a wiz at Microsoft products.)

Appropriately so, the letter "E" was brought to you by the words e-mail and Edit(ing) ... Which without, where would Blogging be?

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.  ~Dave Barry

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.  ~Bill Gates

Blessings to all!!

63 days to go...

... for a, l & c.  You are my sunshine(s).  

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Day 10 ~ Hmmm... I Think I May Be On to Something Here (?)

There's been a couple of times that I have mentioned that I (kinda) liked - wink, wink - blogging.  I don't know, maybe I'm onto something here?

I just realized that I have not told you what I do for a living... and please bare with me because it will make sense in the end.

Where do I start?  I just finished my second school year at a small [private] Christian school in western Texas (we moved here almost four years ago - another story, another day) and am out for summer vacation...I taught computers to 1st through 8th grade students.  

I'm pretty computer savvy... ~ thanks to working under the tutelage of my father for nearly a decade at his computer stores, "The Computer Supply" (Van Nuys and Newhall, CA) which doors closed back in 1996 more or less...  I can put together a computer system, troubleshoot it (I did sales and etc there), and love to work with software.  I am a freelance Graphic Designer and Computer Consultant, and pretty darn good with Microsoft Office.  Altogether I've been dancing with computers for twenty-six years.

But that's not all!  I have remodeled homes, done interior design work, bar-tending paid for my divorce and custody law suit, I have worked at a world famous gym among personal trainers, famous body builders, fitness models, actors and athletes, and I can run anyone's office (like nobody's business!) whether an architect, engineer, hair stylist or travel agent!  I am very organized and as mentioned in earlier posts (Day 7,) I "plan" everything.  

Above all, I am very artistic- While ceramics is my thing (here's a picture of my newest piece in progress), I also love to paint and I enjoy great gourmet food and even grow my own herbs and fruits/vegetables...~ as a result, the love of cooking has grown not only within myself, but in my four and a half year old daughter as well.

One constant I have always had in my life was writing~ even though I had taken what some would call a "long hiatus" (as described in Day 2), I have always done well at writing... and writing has been good to me.  I don't know, some would even say that they have noticed a "skip" in my step, and have even caught me humming a tune or two...

In the past week I have increasingly been researching all to do with blogging.  I now have a copyright on my blog and belong to a blogger's website.  Oh, Laws - Oh yes laws, because Bret and Kevin (who I have already mentioned in earlier blogs) would be more than happy to team up (another story, another day) against me... I am NOT as naive as I once was! I can not be held libel nor can I be accused of slander (ok, I can be accused, but I will also fight for the truth,) ... when I am writing the truth.

Therefore I will take this opportunity to re-state that fact that I will only write the facts and truths in my blog.  Even if I make myself to be the idiot~ it will be the truth.

In the last couple of days I have also been playing with the formatting of my blog, learning a little bit about the designing of blogs if you will. [This is where my experience comes in.] You may have noticed a different look, background photograph (taken by ME) of one of my favorite corners ;) and even a new title.

Did I mention that I (kinda) liked blogging?   ;)

Blessings to all.  

355 days to go.


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