A good day
Jul. 4th, 2012 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI haven't accomplished as much as I would have liked, but I got in some good practicing and am happy with how my skills are coming along. It's remarkable how much more fun things get when you can do them more competently. Practice. It actually works! Who knew?
I also worked on making a pdf songbook, which I am rather pleased with, and put in some more time on The Vest, which doesn't have two pockets now, exactly, but has the hard parts of two pockets done: I'm pretty sure I can finish them tomorrow.
If The Vest comes out I have more fabric and may make another one like it at some point, so I can have one for Saturday and one for Sunday. Clothes tend to get worn hard at a con.
But basically I just felt happy. I learned new things about Open Office (which I'm informed by my husband also exist in Microsoft Word, but I haven't been able to afford Word for a long time, so...) Like you can make a while bunch of separate song pages and then put them together into a song book by just picking "page break" and "insert file" alternately. Like, you can have the front page and the table of contents and the index page left out of the numbering. Mind you, this isn't straightforward: I spent a lot of time thrashing about and looking on the internet for answers. But I'm pleased that I figured it out and happy with the resulting document.
Kip and I went shopping and got various 4th of July treats--sausages to grill and watermelon and corn on the cob. I bought peaches with little specks from frost damage so they were "number 2 peaches" and were only a dollar-fifty for a couple of pounds. The peaches I picked from our peach tree are almost gone so these will be a nice replacement.
Tomorrow will be the companion sheet music songbook. I just hope that goes as well: I can't use Open Office for that one, but will probably have to stitch all the PDFs together in Adobe Acrobat.
Also--housecleaning. Seriously. Tomorrow I will do some for sure.
I also worked on making a pdf songbook, which I am rather pleased with, and put in some more time on The Vest, which doesn't have two pockets now, exactly, but has the hard parts of two pockets done: I'm pretty sure I can finish them tomorrow.
If The Vest comes out I have more fabric and may make another one like it at some point, so I can have one for Saturday and one for Sunday. Clothes tend to get worn hard at a con.
But basically I just felt happy. I learned new things about Open Office (which I'm informed by my husband also exist in Microsoft Word, but I haven't been able to afford Word for a long time, so...) Like you can make a while bunch of separate song pages and then put them together into a song book by just picking "page break" and "insert file" alternately. Like, you can have the front page and the table of contents and the index page left out of the numbering. Mind you, this isn't straightforward: I spent a lot of time thrashing about and looking on the internet for answers. But I'm pleased that I figured it out and happy with the resulting document.
Kip and I went shopping and got various 4th of July treats--sausages to grill and watermelon and corn on the cob. I bought peaches with little specks from frost damage so they were "number 2 peaches" and were only a dollar-fifty for a couple of pounds. The peaches I picked from our peach tree are almost gone so these will be a nice replacement.
Tomorrow will be the companion sheet music songbook. I just hope that goes as well: I can't use Open Office for that one, but will probably have to stitch all the PDFs together in Adobe Acrobat.
Also--housecleaning. Seriously. Tomorrow I will do some for sure.
