Selenay's Ramblings

I've had a lovely weekend, spending much of yesterday at terrylbirch's eating yummy food and watching DVD, after wandering into town where I invested on a book on the Wars of the Roses. Like the geek I am :-)

Today has been largely pottering and sorting through a mountain of paperwork. How very exciting. But at least I've found six months' worth of phone bills and bank statements and removed one of the things that I could have procrastinated with on my exam revision. Er, and procrastinated about said exam revision in the process :-)

Tonight there is not one but two daft crime dramas! Perfect Sunday evening TV viewage. Except for the part where they're on at the same time. I have made the decision to video Midsomer Murders because it finishes later than Daizel and Pascoe :-)

If anyone is interested and wishes to borrow my new LJ banner for their own usage, you can find it at The Haven. It would be much appreciated if you could save it to your own server rather hotlinking to mine, though :-)

And, er, would anyone be interested in a tutorial with pictures of stages and settings in order to replicate a similar (but obviously very different) banner for themselves?

In other thoughts, that tag cloud on the right hand side only shows how much I abuse tags. Maybe I'll keep it as a warning to myself!

I made a decision. It's bad, evil and frivolous...but I've spent my voucher on Sims 2. 'Cos why else would people give me gift vouchers if not to buy the things that I usually can't justify in my monthly budget? *g*

I have completed the French unit that I'm working on and most of the assignment is roughed out. Yay me! Just gotta finish it and write it up neatly tomorrow.

I'm going to see Harry Potter tonight (woo!) and will be out with terrylbirch tomorrow morning, but I won't be able to do the usual entire day thing because I've got so many other things that need to be done. I.e. by tomorrow night, I need to have my assignment ready for posting, get the Quaker site (which has thankfully reappeared although no word from the host on why they were down) updated and get some work done on the Never Ending Website. N.E.W. clients have sent part-payment for the site so it's really gotta get finished. There are a couple of bits of info that they haven't sent yet (of course), but most of the site can be finished without that and the most time-consuming part is still cleaning up the graphics.

Note for future: state in the contract/proposal that the images they send should be of production quality or the client pays extra for my skills at getting the damn things usable. 'Cos this is a bigger job than I thought it would be *sigh* I'm not even touching the colour balancing and shadows all over the shop - I now just want images with the correct perspective and non-blurry. 'Cos rectangular canvases that have wonky corners due to the photography really don't look good once you take out the enourmous expanses of mixed brickwork, wooden panels and curtains that form the background. Faults like bad perspective really stand out then. Oddly, it's the circular canvases that are the easiest to clean up. Possibly because it's harder to spot the wonky bits *g*