Finally posting

It's been a few days since my last, quick, post. I played hockey on Wed night, and we lost (something we are doing a lot of lately). But I had fun because I got to play forward and I actually scored a goal! I like to change it up a little even if its for a season, but I do believe that my natural position is defence. Although maybe not, maybe with some lessons I'd be a half decent forward, who knows.

Thursday was a crazy day, I had a day of training for work on an application called DOORS. Kind of dry, since it's very database oriented, and programming and databases are just not my bag baby! But, I do have to do it for work, so at least I knew it was very applicable to me and therefore made it a little more interesting. The course went from 8 am to 4 pm, but I had to take off at 3 (which was find because we were going to be done around 3 anyway) and rush downtown to Henry's School of Imaging where I had signed up for a Scanning and Resotoration course. It taught us how to scan properly, what resolution to get for different media (film, slide, photo etc), then we learned the basics for restoring. I already knew some of the basics of restoration but I did learn a few extra tips for adjusting the levels in a photo, as well as using the healing brush in addition to the clone stamp tool in Photoshop. We were using Photoshop Elements, which I really enjoyed, it has a different user interface than full Photoshop, but everything we did we could do in the full version.

What I really enjoyed about the class was that I got to try scanning one of my photos and slides. I had tried it at home, and the quality was so poor, it was un-useable. When I scanned it at the school, it was fantastic! The quality was great! The other fun thing about the class was that we did all this work on Macs, I'd never used a Mac and it was quite fun, I really can't wait until I can get one. But don't worry, I won't do that for a few years, because I have a new computer and monitor here which I love.

After a long day, my brain was fried and I couldn't wait to get to sleep! Unfotunately, at 12:30 am, I woke up and couldn't get to sleep for an hour and a half. I think my mind was on overdrive, which the info I had learned that day. So I came downstairs, got caught up on the blogs I read with Google Reader and managed to find the scanner I was looking at buying for $150 off the lowest price I had found in the past!! So my insomnia wasn't all wasted!

Friday was the second half of the DOORS course, the advanced class. And that was 10 X more taxing on the brain, since it was teaching us how to set up the database, how to link modules, link requirements, blah blah blah! My baby brain was holding me back on this one!! But this part was very important for my job, so I had to make sure I understood it before leaving, which I feel I did. Once again, when I got home I was too tired to even come down to my computer, so I watched some back shows of So You Think You Can Dance (which I can't) and Wonder Pets with Abby.

I can't wait until I get my scanner and start scanning old photos and slides, and hopefully making a few memory books with them! Have a happy Saturday!