AH --- Artificial Intelligence for writing! Yes -- it's been suggested, from multiple sources, that I use it to help generate my presentations. Well, I'd have to be a whole lot more organized!
Here's what happens when I'm working. I start with a blank page—well, not always. Sometimes, I recycle slides from other presentations. I do that a lot, and since I'm not always sure where the particular pictures I want are, how the heck would I tell a computer where to find them?
Then, I may take six pictures and load them. In what order should they be loaded? OK, I guess that's an easy one—in the order they were taken. But what if I go back and take six more pictures (it happens all the time)? Then where does the system insert them?
If it were cut and dried, I would have a folder of pictures and then ask the computer to load them. I could do that, but that is NOT how my brain works.
However, given the learning I'm always yapping about, I should try it when I'm not against the clock!
It may help me, and I'd just have to work more organized. But here's the other thing—I sometimes work from two different computers to create the same presentation. I don't know why I do that—one is downstairs, and one is upstairs. Some of the files (the presentation) sit on a shared drive, but the pictures sit on an external hard drive attached to the computer in my office. So I'd have to change a lot how I work.
I do not want to fill that shared drive with all my pictures, so that's a problem I would need to solve. I could put everything on the shared drive and, when complete, move the designated folder to the external hard drive. Oh, there are lots of things to think about.
It's a complicated process when the slide presentations can have up to 100 slides! Most of the slides are just pictures, but I'll try!
I know DH is starting to use it. Since he could NOT take notes during meetings, he's been getting AI to do it for him. He said it's far from perfect, and it can't handle loads of people in one meeting, but it's better than nothing.
Having said all that, all the presentations are done—well, I'm still tweaking one of them, and I won't get done all I wanted, but it's enough to get them sewing!!! I have one other instance when all four of these classes fall on the same weekend, so I'd better be prepared for that. Since today is the first of all four, extra work is involved in getting the class set up. It's all my fault for not getting organized a wee bit sooner!
There are four different classes. One is full, but the other three? People were still signing up last night! That was an issue as I needed to keep the distribution lists up to date! If anyone else signs up now, well, that's too bad!
The good news is that even though I hate admin work, I'm actually having fun with all this—and I'm getting good at it! This is a good thing since so much more needs to be done! What I dislike is when required paperwork isn't because of me!
Oh, Miss Murphy! She's so cute and LOVES to play in the mud and be dirty! Lexi is such a princess by comparison.
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| MOM -- just hanging out in the backyard |
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| MOM -- those machines are noisy! Let me out of here! |
OH MY -- look what comes back to you! This was a label I found in those boxes of stuff that someone donated to me. Is this the same Cabin in the Woods quilt I've been working on? Completed in 2008 sounds about right. I quilted it for her, but I wonder why the label never made it onto the quilt.
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| A lost label |
It's confusing because the book is called Welcome to My Cabin, but the quilt we made (the one I finished recently) is called Cabin in the Woods. OK—it's not confusing, but it can be confusing when you don't pay too much attention!
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| My two Cabin in the Woods quilts |
It's never too late to get anything done!
I'm determined to get my 13 KM in every day. The end of the year is fast approaching (66 days), and I still have a lot of mileage to cover. I cannot sluff off! So, while waiting for DH at physio, I walked. With all the up and down the stairs to take photos and load them, I got a few more steps, but I needed more. So, the girls and I (individually) went for a walk last night. The second time this week. They think they have died and gone to heaven! TWO walks in one day!
It was a glorious evening. I was wearing a down vest, and it was very pleasant to walk.
Oh, and if you lose a pet and wonder if you should put up a sign, do it! I spotted this sign the other day in the forest.
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| Missing pet |
Yesterday, Muprhy and I were walking past a house with big pine trees in front. We could hear a cat who didn't sound too happy. I was trying to get a closer look without alerting Muprhy to the fact that there was a cat there. She hates cats.
At that point, a neighbor happened along. She knew whose cat was missing, so I left her in charge of contacting the owners. Murphy and I continued on our way!
Cats, e-scooters, and two dogs in our neighborhood. She can't handle any of those three! Yesterday, she was barking her head off when I was downstairs, and DH was on the phone. Yep- the dog she hates was walking on the other side of the street! I've no idea what she has against that dog, but many other dogs pass our house and even stop to sniff. She's OK with them, but not this one dog!
Remember, we have a Virtual Retreat tonight and tomorrow. Gosh, it's Saturday—how did that happen so fast?
Saturday, October 26 - Starts at 6:00 PM
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Happy decluttering—cleaning out drawers (they are endless) and tidying up the UFOs (again—endless for most!).
Have a super day!!!
Ciao!!!
The label may not have been used because welcome to my cabin is. Different designer. Was it suppose to be for the misty woods pattern?
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