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Good Afternoon!

Last week was one hectic week. As you know from my previous story, we didn’t have any internet access until 03.21. AT&T tech was there bright and early at 9AM, and was gone by 11AM. After that, I got the VOIP from VOIP Your Life hooked up, and the household was complete with both phone and internet. I’m so glad that’s over: I really dislike dealing with large companies where you cannot deal with one person on one issue. Specialist fields are good, but whatever happened to concurrent workflow?

I can’t imagine how I would have even had time to get online last week anyway. I don’t think I even remember any day last week with the exception of Friday. Frustration was high with me, as I feel it’s a crucial time to build consistency and readership of this blog. Things get better everyday, and I have no one but my readership to thank for that – so thank you!

In regards to my GTD course and following, last week I did not put up my worksheet due to lack in internet. I have to confess with all that went on last week, I didn’t even do it. I have not cleared my physical inbox for two Friday. I did manage to clear my email inbox each and every day I was at work. I do know what is sitting in my physical inbox, and I can say that it’s nothing that I can take care of immediately – I’m waiting on more information. So I have had a serious fall from the GTD bandwagon. Keeping up with my to-do lists and project lists was done, but the final processing of tangible items was not. This week I will be focusing on getting caught up on my coursework from the 7 Habits course, as well as seeing if I can do anything at all about what I have in there.

One unexpected thing that was added to our to-do list this past week was replacing my SO identification and SS card. Having a wallet stolen on a Friday night has to be one of the worst times for it to happen (other than Saturday or Sunday). We got all the credit cards canceled and re-ordered, but getting a new drivers’ license and SS card proved to be a challenge that could send a saint to drink. In our state, if your license is stolen, you have to provide a birth certificate and one other document that contains your SS number. If your birth certificate does not contain your SS, then you need one other document. The list is very specific and out of everything on there, the only thing that we could get that would work was a copy of doctors’ records. And of course doctors typically aren’t open on Saturday, so today I was on the phone first thing getting records from the doctor and finding out was is needed to replace a social security card.

To replace a social security card, the SSA needs a picture ID. But in order to get your picture ID once it’s stolen, they want proof of your SS number. So it’s a very vicious circle to try and get it – they pretty much each want what the other agency wants. A drivers license was finally obtained a half hour ago, and SS card application will be filed within the next hour.

I certainly hope that today is not indicative of how the entire week is going to be: I have Friday off was my last day here is Thursday, so I am certainly looking forward to the rest, relaxation, and peace and quiet.

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On a brief hiatus while I get the Internet and house straightened out for the holidays. I will return tomorrow!

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Creative Docs .NET is a versatile vector drawing software on the
lines of Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw – the software is completely
free for non-commercial use and also supports Windows Vista.

Though available without charge, Creative Docs offers tons of
goodies seen only in commercial software – you can draw text along a
curved path, merge shapes using boolean operations, convert text into
Bezier curves, color gradients, etc.

Creative Docs can also be used for creating optical illusions, drawing flow charts
or for writing manuals like you would do inside Microsoft Word. The
finished document / graphic can be saved in image formats or as a PDF
document.

Minimum System Requirements

• PC running Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 or
  Vista.
• 1 GHz processor.
• 1 GB memory recommended.
• 1024 x 768 pixels graphics card, or better.
• At least 32 768 colors.

Additional software required:

• Microsoft .NET Framework
  2.0 which will be downloaded automatically for you if
  you don’t have it yet on your computer.

Tools

Manipulation Tools

• Arrow
• Selection rectangle
• Edit
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Hand
• Property picker
• Color picker with magnifying glass

Creation Tools

• Lines and arrows
• Rectangles, various corner settings
• Free form polygons, various corner settings
• Bezier curves
• Circles, ellipses and arcs
• Regular polygons and stars
• Dimensions
• Trapezoids, parallelograms, various other 2D shapes
• Grids, checkerboards, rings, spirals
• Boxes, pyramids and cylinders in pseudo-3D
• Free-style text lines
• Text blocks
• Bitmap images

Properties

Graphic Objects

• Line width, shape, cap, join
• Dashes
• Uniform RGB or CMYK colors, with or without transparency
• Linear, circular, diamond or conic gradients
• Hatches and patterns
• Various arrowheads
• Various corners

Text Objects

• Font
• Justification
• Various tab stops
• Indentation

Other

• Object names

Styles

• Named set of properties
• Property inheritance through base styles

Operations

• Global or partial selections
• Shape resizing, excluding or including line width and font size
• Rotations
• Symmetries
• Deformations
• Alignment and spacing
• Multi-level grouping/ungrouping
• Boolean union, intersection, exclusion or difference
• Path conversions (convert to curves or convert to lines)
• Combination and splitting of curves

Document Features

• Multi-document, multi-page, multi-layer
• Infinite undo and redo levels
• Image import and export
• Publishing features
• PDF export
• Magnetic grid, rulers
• Smart constraints, magnetizing objects in a layer
• Temporary masking of objects
• Non-modal user interface

found via Digital Inspiration

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