I am home with two computers running simultaneously.
I have two presentations on Wednesday – one for the District’s 60th Birthday.
I was tasked with putting together a power-point presentation showing some historical pictures.
So of course it has blossomed, and I now have about a 10 minute show going. It is not done yet though.
All pictures have been assembled and a map that shows the District’s growing.
I am working on titles and animations.
The animations are somewhat limited for most slides. I have one that fades three different buildings (well houses) in over each other to show the changes.
The other is the growing District. This required drawing the boundary for each incarnation of the District. In 60 years there have been many many incarnations. I started this using the drawing functions in Powerpoint 2003. (I do not do enough art to have real drawing programs, and drawing in Office is generally pretty easy for me.) But when I worked on my home computer over the weekend I had to use Office 2007. Now most frustrations with the upgrade involve just finding out where they have put all of the functions. But the drawing has gotten too complicated – they couldn’t keep it simple (stupid). So after being almost in tears because I couldn’t figure out how to change the default from curved lines to straight segments and more annoying (because I know how to change the segment), I couldn’t get it to free up my placement of the vertices – it kept jumping them. Yes I tried to set all of the bits to let me be free – but. Eventually I went back to VPN, which was taking forever due to the number of layers I had going. I would move a vertice, watch some TV, move the next one, and on and on, watching it redraw each layer in between each move – twice. I got fairly far through my list, with about 1/3 remaining. I was able to finish the last 1/3 in about 1/2 hour at work today….
So, since I am still working on the animation and don’t want to wait an eternity for each move, and don’t feel like fighting the 2007 battle, I brought home a work computer (with 2003 loaded).
Ah – I think I just ranted.
Oh – VOTE!!! We plan on hitting the polls for their 7 AM openning. I am supposed to meet my carpooler there and leave after we have both had our turn.
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