The Rolling Stone issue with Lady Gaga on the cover arrived at my house today! YAY! But I gotta say it: her butt is really badly Photoshopped. Anyway. I am happy because I am pretty sure my subscription is expiring soon (it was a free subscription that I got for buying No Doubt tickets last summer), but I am slightly obsessed with all things Gaga at the moment so I’m glad I got a free copy of this one.
Speaking of Photoshop…my work computer is now upgraded to CS5 and the content-aware fill is just as amazing as the YouTube videos I watched about it a few months ago.
Apparently Monterey has a roller derby league that has open practices on Thursdays during the summer. A couple of my lady coworker friends have asked me to go with them on July 15, so that promises to be an adventure. I have been looking at speed skates and dreaming up roller derby names for a few days now, and I’ve never even played! Yet something tells me I am going to like it…
Corner and I went to an open skating session at the skating rink tonight to check it out. I was surprised because I am pretty sure that Rollhaven (the roller rink near where I grew up) is bigger/better/newer. And if I remember correctly, Rollhaven is a bit of a dump in a not-so-great part of town. Also, the last time I was on roller skates, I wore a size 4 shoe. I was later into inline skating for a couple years, but skating on quad skates again was an experience. The rental skates were pretty bad, and I now have a couple of nasty looking blisters. But on the plus side, I was a better skater than Corner, which was rather satisfying, because he is generally better than me at most athletic/sport-type things (bowling, racquetball, etc.).
This has been an interesting week at work. I am trying to crank out the virtual campus tour project that I’ve been working on for awhile, but other more pressing items keep coming up. We are rolling out a new logo on July 1 so I have been scouring the web for places where we use the current logo so I can update them all (although I’m positive I will still miss a few…they’re EVERYWHERE!).
My latest conundrum: Kindle vs. iPad vs. netbook vs. hold off on buying anything until I am more confident about which is the right choice. Since Amazon lowered the price of the Kindle a few days ago, I suddenly have more than enough money for a Kindle, but I’m still only about halfway to an iPad. Now that I don’t have a laptop, I’m kinda thinking an iPad might be a good fit for me. Or I could buy neither and put the money towards student loans (although that is definitely the least fun option). Decisions, decisions!
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Rollhaven was in a shady part of Grand Blanc, so we were relatively safe learning to skate there. Isn’t one of your nicknames K2?? That sounds pretty tough. I was going to suggest Kalvin, but I am not sure it applies here… :)
do NOT get an iPad! They’re so dumb!! Especially if you have an iPhone. What’s the point? As much as I love Apple and think Steve Jobs is a genius, the iPad is really really dumb.