It's Coming Together

Good Afternoon, Gentle Readers!

Today's image is titled Explosion. I made it about a week ago while trying to create my diamond-quasars. This time, I tried to block off a part of a floodfill to keep and erase everything else. As you can see, that didn't quite work as planned- but what I got instead was quite striking. Needless to say, I saved it.

The class project is starting to come together. Two parts of it have been given over to the team leader: Mine, which covers ethics and law, and one of my team mates, who had charge of describing what workplace ethics consists of. I have to give praise to him for what he created too; It was thorough and would be easy for even a lay reader to understand. This was in spite of him having been ill for the week before too! If there is anyone that deserves a high grade, it's him. But then, I am working with a wonderful group of people.

I next need to see what I should do about the next paper I have due, and perhaps look into my next class. Five weeks is not long, and I'm looking at the end of my first five-week period in my Bachelor program already.

Until We Meet, Gentle Readers...

Team Project

Good Afternoon, Gentle Readers!

Today's image is titled Light On Tree. It is another attempt at the image I showed you yesterday. It didn't quite turn out as I wanted, but putting it together was quite an experience in itself. My biggest problem was trying to make it come together in such a way that it wouldn't look like the components were just stuck there.

I did get my part of the team project turned in last night- but I may have to tweak it. Meanwhile, I have another project to attend to this week. Fortunately, this report is a solo one. That means that I won't have to worry about stepping on toes, so to speak. Not only that, the only person I have to fit my work in with is me, instead of me and five other people. Still, I do need to get a quick approval before I begin. Or maybe I can ask and meanwhile start gathering my material. Wish me luck!

Until We Meet, Gentle Readers...

Failure is Not An Option!

Good Evening, Gentle Readers!

Today's image is titled Warm Light. This is a work in progress; I made it for a friend who wasn't feeling very well, and I thought a little warmth would be good for both of us.

It has been cool today- though not as much so as it has been. That has been a blessing; More of the leftover snow and ice will finish melting off now. That would be just as well, considering the rain that supposedly is headed my way.

I just finished filling in a table for my school work. That was a challenge in itself because the table I was supposed to fill in wouldn't copy and paste over right to either one of my documents or to the Reply section of the college site! What I finally did was create a table of my own and copy-paste over the assorted labels I needed. I think I went into more detail than the instructor really expected- but perhaps not, considering how much of the word count was taken up by those labels! In one of the rows the question was about setting my solution to the problem of continuing education into action. One thing I mentioned in that block was that failure was not an option.

And it isn't.

Until We Meet, Gentle Readers...

School and Snow

Good Afternoon, Gentle Readers!

Today's image is titled Blue Web River. This morning, I decided to give up on quasars for the moment and instead see what I could do with sunbursts- which I've not used often. The web is made of dark blue- but applies with a filter that I usually don't handle because I almost never know what's going to happen. What you see is the result.

Last night, I searched both the school library and the web for a couple of items for my part of the paper. A couple of things I looked at were interesting- but not detailed enough where I needed the information. A couple of other items were plainly biased- which is not something that should be used in a scholarly paper unless the subject is about bias! I really wanted to get a couple more things, but alas, restrictions forbade. I should be able to finish up my part and show it to my team mates this evening.

This morning as I was doing my normal Monday chores, I looked out the window- and I had to laugh! It was snowing, and I was having visions of my poor husband staring and yelling, "Gak!" I don't think we'll see any accumulation, but I'll be giggling for the rest of the day.

Until We Meet, Gentle Readers...

Teamwork

Good Afternoon, Gentle Readers!

Today's image is titled Spin. I attempted yet again to make quasars, and again I found it didn't quite work. I do have another idea, though, which I will try later. I think part of the problem is that I'm trying to start on the base layer, and that is throwing everything else off.

After a great deal of talk yesterday in my class about procrastination and plagiarism, I went ahead and labeled a page in my pad for the project. Considering how many people the project is being divided among, I don't have that much writing to do. My challenge will be to pack the information I gather into as few words as possible- and previous solo work has not prepared me for that. But that is, after all, the purpose of the teams!

Until We Meet, Gentle Readers...

Think think think...

Good Evening, Gentle Readers!

Today's image is titled Rose Winged. I was trying to get a starburst pattern with a red or rose-colored diamond and quasar effect in the middle. When I saw it wasn't going to work this time, I decided to run in a very different direction with the picture. You now see the results.

Today was largely quiet, other than my husband and I going to visit my mother. But in my head, I have been working on my class project. Of course, I still need to get it out and into a document that can be shared with my team mates; They're counting on me, and I've a feeling at least two of them will need assistance. I may go ahead and write up items that can substitute for them too, if they don't feel able to handle it. Two, I am sure, will have difficulty- but they are trying very hard, and that I applaud.

I will try my starburst and quasar again- then start looking up and documenting my sources. I may go back and reread some of my previous reports too. Wish me luck!

Until We Meet, Gentle Readers...

The Home Front

Good Afternoon, Gentle Readers!

Today's image is titled Overlaid Teardrops. There are several very strange things about this image. One is that it isn't supposed to have any green in it at all; The field that is showing as green and dark blue is supposed to be red, or reddish. The other is the feathering you can see along the edges. I think I know why that is happening, though. I think I'll keep the effect for a while; I do like seeing something besides nice neat edges once in a while.

Forgive me for not writing in yesterday, Gentle Readers; Yesterday, I was busy most of the day helping my mother. I do have some very good news on that front; The injury, while serious and painful, was not as serious as I thought at first. In fact, the attending physician is confident that the knee should be as good as new in about six months. To which I say, YAY!

About the class project; My team and I are supposed to assemble a report on business ethics and values, and the sources of them. I volunteered to cover the laws that are supposed to help with that, since that was a subject I had looked at a couple of times before. It is a crying shame that ethics and values need to be legislated at all, but certain businesses that have since fallen spectacularly have demonstrated that not everyone is learning right from wrong at home- or perhaps, those in question have chosen to ignore the question of right and wrong in favor of a quick profit.

Until We Meet, Gentle Readers...