It's taken me all day to get back home to my computer - I guess that's a good thing seeing as I had the day off. I went to see Lord of the Rings: Return of the King this morning with Jacqui and David. Weirdness arriving at the Theatre - lots of car park spaces and not many people about, cinema ticketing area virtually empty but entering the cinema to find it packed to the gunnels with people, all sitting in their seats ready for the movie to start.. Like some sort of science fiction movie .. or something.. something. Anyway. The movie. Yes. As you would expect. And then some. The special effects seemed to have wound up a notch, especially the battle scenes. Take some tissues - you won't need a whole box but you might need one or two - lots of sniffles in the theatre at different parts - couple of cheers and smatterings of applause too. Each of the movies so far [Fellowship of the Ring and Two Towers] has had a "Legolas" stunt, more better [haha, i love saying that - more better.. or even betterer, more better'r hahah] than the last - the first movie had him "jumping on the cave troll and... " [ok i need to check that i think my brain is munging information, I'll check with rosie and get back to you] the second movie he did that "swinging up on the horse" thing and yay, Mr Jackson gave Legolas the best stunt for the last movie - the theatre erupted into cheers so you'll probably know the scene when you see it :) I was disappointed with the sound. I am guessing it's the cinema's set up. I found it difficult to hear the dialogue over the score, often. Other people did too so don't think it's my hearing. The rest of the day I spent Christmas shopping with Jacqui, David and Amy - and this evening wrapping presents and decorating the tree. Greg had picked up the christmas cards I designed for his company - they looked really good. He was chuffed and we were both really pleased with the service, work and cost from the Printer. Here's the artwork from the front of the card - the company does roading, paving and driveways - so this is what we did with one of their work photos: Now I'm at home and I should be in bed - I'm tired enough. There's some kinda gay version of Peter's Friends/The Big Chill. It's called Love! Valour! Compassion! - if it was pudding, it would be vanilla. Why aren't I asleep?

another day at the office me = looking out a window - there's a bird in the tree you = looking out a window - where, i can't see a bird me = looking out a window - there, over there, a bird you = looking out a window - nope, no bird me = looking out a window - there, there is a BIRD in the TREE you = looking out a window - there's no bird me = looking out a window - Tamara, can you see the bird in the tree? Tamara = looking out the window - oo look, there's a bird in the tree! you = looking out a window - I can't see a bird me = looking out a window - right there dammit there's a BIRD IN THE TREE you = looking out a window - there's no bird in the tree, in fact there's no tree! me = looking out a window - there's no tree? you = looking out a window - no bird. no tree. me = turning you around to look out THE window you = looking out THE window - there's a bird in the tree!

How to Appear Incompetent - a Lesson in Transmogrification from RGB to CMYK Send the Printer a pdf of the file you want printed and ask for a quote for 100 copies. Receive the quote within 3 minutes. [now that's service] Call to confirm quote - send confirmation by email. Printer asks you to supply file with "bleed [which you know about] and crop marks [which you don't know about]" Ask Printer about how to do crop marks - he asks if the pdf is high resolution, you say it is, he says "that's great, we'll handle the crop marks". Printer promises print run to be complete by 9am next day [amazing service for this time of year] Awesome. Printer calls to say the Font hasn't embedded in the pdf, could I embed it and resend. I can't embed it because I don't know how - so break text *apart*, pdf the file and send. Hope that works. Printer calls - no good [must look like shit] could I send the original files [this printer is amazingly patient and polite] zip files and ftp to website - send URL to printer Printer calls - he's downloaded the files ok but they won't open - they might be corrupt - maybe i could just email them recompiles the files [to be safe] zips and emails them to Printer [completely aware of what a WALLY i must appear by now. Now I'm waiting for him to call to say that doesn't work either so I can burn them onto a disk and take them over to him by hand. He's patient and friendly and is giving amazing service - he just doesn't realise he's talking to an RGB girl in a CMYK world. At least i'm multitasking - while waiting to find out my files to print won't work, i'm waiting to hear from a client about how my program - delivered on Monday - isn't writing to a database - even though it does for me. but wait.. there's more Printer called, could I break apart the text and send the files as .eps Breaks apart fonts, sends as .eps Printer calls back - no go - the stupid fon with the stupid german name [there's always a german somewhere] is the problem, the Arial font is ok though I change the fonts to a normal old Arial and Arial bold, break apart the text, send through to a very tired printer and hope that does the trick.