Still finding my way around Ubuntu, but it's OK. I think I've got the hang of it now (scary console is still scary, but I think I'm going to read the article on Ubuntu Help, so I can see What It Does*).
Also I used GIMP for the first time ever this morning while sorting out photos, and it is not the uphill struggle to learn that I believed (and had read that) it would be! \o/ Sure, it's different after 10+ years of Photoshop, but it's pretty easy to use (and trust me, I have had struggles with learning software from scratch before (ask me about my initial experiences with Flash!) ). All I have to remember that stuff is not necessarily under the menu I think it is (though I am having a serious case of Curse You, Muscle Memory! right now).
I still get narked every time I see the cairo-dock app, though, because baaaaaaaaah who wants a dock that is a clone of a Mac/more recent Windows versions. Well, stupid question, really, because obviously people do, and it wouldn't exist as a recommended app if they didn't (I REALLY like the default sidebar dock that 12.04 comes with. It's kind of neat, although occasionally it scrolls past the program I want if I'm not careful).
*I mean, I know what it does, but I don't know how it does it, if that makes sense? And I don't know how to make it do the things I need it to do because everyone just posts code without really explaining it, and that makes me scream internally.
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I went out and did a bit of bumbling about in the garden. Well, more around the garden walls than anything. It was sunny, a bit breezy, and I enjoyed myself. Charlie accompanied me around as I went, which I loved (I've never really gardened since we had her, so this is a novelty). It was nice to have some company that didn't talk to me (I don't hate people, but gardening is kind of quiet time the way I see it).
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In other news. I put DAII in the Xbox after getting annoyed with my man Shep in ME1 because Mark Meer's acting is...terrible (he sounds so flat!) I loaded up my second game in which Bron Hawke hates everyone, especially mages (psst: she is a mage), but she loooooves Fenris. I think you can see where this is going.
Because I hadn't played for a year, I couldn't remember where the hell I was (part of the quest looking for Ninette, as it turned out) or what her character was supposed to be like (she hates you aaaaaaaaaaaaaall! Unless you are Fenris, of course).
When I last left her, one of the templars had called her a monster for killing his mage daughter, and then bribing him not to tell anyone about his secret (because mages are dirty, horrible, and bad, right?) I got 10 points approval off Fenris for that.
(I also had to reload earlier on, as I'd made the "wrong" choice and he disapproved, and we don't want that. Also god only knows what will happen with Feynriel).
LONG STORY SHORT: DANG KIRKWALL, I'VE MISSED YOU.
Also I used GIMP for the first time ever this morning while sorting out photos, and it is not the uphill struggle to learn that I believed (and had read that) it would be! \o/ Sure, it's different after 10+ years of Photoshop, but it's pretty easy to use (and trust me, I have had struggles with learning software from scratch before (ask me about my initial experiences with Flash!) ). All I have to remember that stuff is not necessarily under the menu I think it is (though I am having a serious case of Curse You, Muscle Memory! right now).
I still get narked every time I see the cairo-dock app, though, because baaaaaaaaah who wants a dock that is a clone of a Mac/more recent Windows versions. Well, stupid question, really, because obviously people do, and it wouldn't exist as a recommended app if they didn't (I REALLY like the default sidebar dock that 12.04 comes with. It's kind of neat, although occasionally it scrolls past the program I want if I'm not careful).
*I mean, I know what it does, but I don't know how it does it, if that makes sense? And I don't know how to make it do the things I need it to do because everyone just posts code without really explaining it, and that makes me scream internally.
~*~
I went out and did a bit of bumbling about in the garden. Well, more around the garden walls than anything. It was sunny, a bit breezy, and I enjoyed myself. Charlie accompanied me around as I went, which I loved (I've never really gardened since we had her, so this is a novelty). It was nice to have some company that didn't talk to me (I don't hate people, but gardening is kind of quiet time the way I see it).
~*~
In other news. I put DAII in the Xbox after getting annoyed with my man Shep in ME1 because Mark Meer's acting is...terrible (he sounds so flat!) I loaded up my second game in which Bron Hawke hates everyone, especially mages (psst: she is a mage), but she loooooves Fenris. I think you can see where this is going.
Because I hadn't played for a year, I couldn't remember where the hell I was (part of the quest looking for Ninette, as it turned out) or what her character was supposed to be like (she hates you aaaaaaaaaaaaaall! Unless you are Fenris, of course).
When I last left her, one of the templars had called her a monster for killing his mage daughter, and then bribing him not to tell anyone about his secret (because mages are dirty, horrible, and bad, right?) I got 10 points approval off Fenris for that.
(I also had to reload earlier on, as I'd made the "wrong" choice and he disapproved, and we don't want that. Also god only knows what will happen with Feynriel).
LONG STORY SHORT: DANG KIRKWALL, I'VE MISSED YOU.
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