A Good Day

So far today is shaping up to be a good day! All in all, I'm pretty happy with how the elections turned out - hopefully we'll start to see some changes over the coming months. Honestly, I'm a huge fan of gridlock - the less power any one party has, the happier I am. That way no one group can go mad with power or get too far too fast. I'm all about slow, well-thought out progress! I hope we'll see some of that now.

The Scrapartist Apprentice kits also went up today in the Shoppe, so I'm madly downloading as we speak! I can't believe all the gorgeous kits the finalists created - and they're only $2! You can't beat that :)

Plus, there's some excitement in the works over at the Digichick too - mostly internal stuff, but I think those things make a big difference too. In a change for me over there, if you didn't see last week, I'm co-hosting the color challenge with Jacque which has been lots of fun already! Jacque's hosting this week and the color is red (my favorite!). Be sure to stop by and join in!

In work news, we're getting caught up . Our case list has been growing, but I think we're getting it under control! I've tried to employ a new deadline system for myself to keep me on task a bit more. I printed out some project tracker forms and set deadlines for each step of my workflow (even creating the wordperfect document LOL) so that I start to feel a little internal pressure if I let things sit too long. There's nothing like setting goals to keep yourself on track!

Finally, in totally random news, Coke Zero actually tastes like Coke! My grocery store was out of my beloved Diet Dr. Pepper, so I had to settle for something else and decided to try the Coke Zero. Much to my amazement it really does taste like Coke - well worth a try :)

Last Night

Guess what I got to do last night? Perhaps you've guessed from the photo at left (miserably grainy as it is LOL - boy do I need an SLR with a good lens!). That's right, I got to see an ex-president speak live and in person :) Whatever else you might say about Clinton, he's a fantastic speaker - I really enjoyed his speech. It's interesting to me how much the Democrats as a whole are reaching out to the center. I expected this to be a pretty party-oriented event, but I guess there must have been a lot of other independents attending besides me because that was definitely the target audience. It's nice to hear politicans talking about the "sacred middle ground" - that's certainly not the usual message these days, but there was a lot of talk about it at this event. Anyway, it's not everyday we get presidents in Tucson, so it was definitely a memorable event!

In more exciting news, my new printer/scanner arrived today! I ordered an Epson RX700 and I'm dying to start playing with it! It will scan negatives and slides and it's just a lot better scan quality than my current base-model HP. Plus, I can finally print 4x6's or cards or whatever at home - the sad old Epson printer I have right now will only print on 8.5x11 paper, so I have to trim everything, which is a huge pain in the butt. So, I have finally entered the modern printing world - very exciting!

Finally, Bob just called me and he has successfully burned his first CD! At 41 he missed the learn-to-work-a-computer-in-school era. I had some pictures from a former co-workers wedding that he wanted to give her today and so he had to do it on his own. Apparently it went off without a hitch! Yeah for small victories over technology :)

Just a quick picture of my current workspace - mainly I'm testing out BloggerBot, but I thought I'd post something at least marginally interesting LOL