Random Raves 49: Cats Can Have Little a Salami

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Rave 1: I just realized that for threads on the front page, I can CTRL+F to find them instead of using the stupid search function. I don't know why I didn't think of this before today, I use CTRL+F daily.

Rave 2: I have gotten to do a bunch of illustrations in powerpoint for work and I love it and am getting really good at it.

Edit/Rave 3:
My brother is getting married in October and I'm going to go to NYC to attend it. :D I've never been to NYC, plus I'm stoked for him and his fiance.
 
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Rave 2: I have gotten to do a bunch of illustrations in powerpoint for work and I love it and am getting really good at it.
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Illustrations of what? If I go back into self publishing, is this anything I can use for cover art for a high fantasy novel?
 
No. I've posted my more artistic designs for mission patches here before and they are not that great. What I am getting really good at is more technical illustrations, like infographics that are part of a presentation. Unfortunately I can't share any of them to show them off. I'm actually thinking about creating some random ones just for fun that I could share. I find the creative process relaxing, even if I'm not portraying something fanciful.

Does anyone have a request for an infographic they'd like to see? Any random science-y questions they'd like answered with an illustration?
 
I love my life.

Long anecdote explaining why, at this particular moment:

Spoiler :

Friday I had errands to run, and basically none of them went as rapidly as planned. I had to get a new phone, and the guy at the phone store was either brand new, dumb as a stump, or telling me honestly that they had "a bunch of new promotions" that had him in unfamiliar territory. I kept making jokes about how if I had a phone I would send out for pizza. Eventually I made it out of there. Next stop, Target, for beer. Target is in the midst of "encouraging" shoppers to use the self checkout, so only one of the twenty-six checkstands was open. Since they don't allow self checkout with beer, I skipped the line and went to look at their selection of Playstation hardware, just to be informed, and when I came back it was down to a reasonable level. Next stop didn't take too long, but I was way later than I should have been so called gf on new phone and arranged to pick up dinner rather than come home and cook.

Since food is usually her cost, my effort, and I had bought dinner Friday, yesterday she said "hey, skip cooking, here's cash to go get Panda Express." I'm always down to skip cooking, and even though I like Dragon Garden better than Panda Express I'm willing either way, so off I go.

I'm in line at the PE, and this guy walks in behind me with the usual "How's it going?" that most people interpret as just automated noise. Me being me I give him the full blast "If it was going any better there'd have to be two of me to do it," and struck up a conversation with him. His accent was not really thick, but noticeable and I'm sure he is more accustomed to the white native English speaking population not being too friendly, but he took to it well and I had him laughing a number of times even though his conversational skills led him to the simple topic of the weather. In regards to the weather I think his biggest laugh was for "yeah, I have these friends that always say 'well, we have four seasons' and I tell them 'what good does having four seasons do if three of them suck?'" Without really thinking about it I also said that I had done my time with winter when the Navy was shipping me around, but once I could go where I wanted why would I go where there's snow up to my butt?

Anyway, he gets a call on his phone, I strike up a conversation with the woman in front of me; a grandmother with her grandkid who was just hella cute (the kid, not the grandmother), and in short order I'm at the front of the line ordering food and getting on with life. So I reach the cashier, she runs my bill, and out of nowhere this guy says "I'll get that" and buys our dinner. Not sure if it was a 'thank you for your service' veteran thing or if I had just made his evening via the unexpected Panda Express dinner and a comedy show and he thought I earned it. Either way, it was cool.
 
Pay it forward Tim!
 
hobbsyoyo said:
Rave 1: I just realized that for threads on the front page, I can CTRL+F to find them instead of using the stupid search function. I don't know why I didn't think of this before today, I use CTRL+F daily.
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There's a subscriptions page, y'know.
 
The subscriptions page is the only way I visit this site, but since it only shows unread posts, sometimes I have to go and track down the raves or cool pics thread.
 
Like my new floor tiles?

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D&D geek.
 
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