Slippery When Wet

Maybe I should have named yesterday's entry "Deer Crossing" because Jim saw 5 deer in our yard last night coming back from Ark. And with his co-worker going home after 7 weeks or more in NC today...we talked this morning about him and the deer always in his yard but today is titled such because I found the most awesome Ice tutorial from Tutorial Wiz. He had everyone stumble on the alpha channel instructions but I somehow completed the task via layer background (I think) and again from the Brazilian's corrections of just duplicating the alpha channel which became 'alpha copy 1' (incongruent with the original tut writers instructions). No matter. It came out nice all three times I created it although PS crashed on me twice last night :/  My metals are enhancing (PS Lover) as well so maybe I can get my site started and house all my road, Louisiana, travel, and event pics. Haha...maybe I can then start putting finished projects online as well!

May add something later like another cool site link, photos from the past, or even a new one but just putting new stuff and links on for now before I forget where they came from ;}

Road Block

It looks like I'm officially off of hiatus and although I would like to say I am done with dumb...I live in the land of idiots who are 'stuck on stupid'.  They are obstacles hindering a movement forward and causes me to step backward to remedy their inefficiencies.  The most disappointing one being with my vets staff.  Again I bust them in not updating their records when they sent out a card informing me of Paros yearly visit when he had it 2 months ago and we had to go twice because he didn't want anything to do with the over hyper tech trying to pull his blood!  She wanted to shave his leg thinking that would resolve his crisis lol!  And Jim may have brought home the H1N1 virus from his trip to NC. He is showing symptoms of coming down with a nasty cold so far and it was during his week in NC that CNN news reported the hospitals there were putting up tents due to this crisis.  Hi co-worker has been there for over 7 weeks and I wonder if maybe they should have just transfered him lol! He sends good jokes and pics of deer in his backyard so I thought I'd put where the nest in ours....that needs to be bush hogged :I.  We see them but no shots yet and for "Wayne's World" lol.....we hope you are homeward bound soon, dude ;)

On the subject of deer...so glad the drapes are up most everywhere and we have been able to sleep without Paros howling at the nesting deer from the windows at 3 am!  He just patrols his property in the daytime now and always comes press his head down on me giving that deep grunt to let me know it's time to pee and patrol outside :/  I still don't know if that is an innate thing with him or his breeder taught him that but it's much cooler than just they sit by the door warnings. I am absolutely loving him more each day although he is the most stubborn and independent hound I've ever owned!  The frozen semen used to produce him was more viable than one would believe!

Links to tutorials to add today are for the filter KPT from ArtRage and 2 online PS communities; Deviant Art and Biorust (hope I can remember my passwords). Currently listening to 'The Cure' and reading software manuels :P but hope to make it upstairs for some stitching, organizing projects, and setting up craft room. Also have to call the vets to set the records straight, email Afghan Hound Club of Memphis and realtor,  bathe the dogs, and find the registration forms from AKC and hope this time I take the ink cartridge # to town so I can print it :l Typical time consuming Saturday stuff so outta here to unblock the road :/

No Speed Limit

Weee!  Fence is up and Paros is full throttle!  It's great too see him play off the lead outdoors again. I just think of the movie "Marly and Me" when he lets Marley off the lead to run amuck on the beach and probably why I adore the Verve song "Lucky Man". And don't I feel lucky!  I've had so much free time that I baked, grilled, and played with all my software trying to re-learn layers, filters, transforms, custom gradients and textures and oh boy...here come vectors, alpha and masks in the channels palette!  Pulled out painter and never did get my intuos drawing tablet but good thing. The saying "If you don't use it, you lose it" is true. I lost it. Maybe that is why Jim throws his arms up in the air and yells "FRIENDS" when we are in the nut isle of the grocery store :/

Well...I may still have a lot to learn but the global piece didn't turn out as bad as I thought it would. Of course my mesh isn't as tight as the tutorial over at Photoshop Cafe as I would have liked it but it does remind me of the fence. All in time for my youngest daughters birthday too. We enjoyed looking at old photos and reminiscing of her time with us in New Orleans area. Hehe...she seemed to get headaches around our fiends...uhh...I mean friends. Whatever...we play hard anyway and we could use a dose of fun for the holidays away from family tensions and stresses of charity to the direlects and homeless. It's all good but I need a real break and miss my other 'family' and main home too. Jim and the boys didn't get to go with me last year so here I come again Dot!  Swamp surfin'!! Then off to see the boys! And swamp pics, eagle shots, Copelands....

Still unpacking and still re-loading pics, fonts, bookmarks, etc.  Now my computer is making noises again. Hope the new computer company (Howard Computers) back their services. And the economy is supposed to be stressed?  Ha!  Still can't find services for obedience, grooming, or other classes around here. I may go back to school for grooming and although I had several weeks of apprenticeship Dr. Edwards provided for me years ago after dropping out of college, it wasn't enough for show cuts. I can do most breed clips and with matt comb in hand...I was always out to save the pets coat from clipping!  We had show groomers and handlers in Louisiana though and between them and me...the boys stayed in full coat.

Till then, we are off the chain so NO SPEED LIMIT!