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So, my last journal entry was fairly depressing, and really my day wasn't all that bad... it kind of balanced out. Let me tell you about the good things that happened today:
1. I woke up early this morning to find the first long-ass download had completed. My download manager program lets me specify a time for it to hang up, so I can leave downloads running at night and not even worry about it tying up the phone lines in the morning like the PC used to. I now have Gimp installed on this computer, filling my image-editing needs. This is also the first unix/x11 program that I have installed, and I was rather pleased to see that my installation of x11 is functioning properly. Still need to figure out how to make a shortcut to directly call Gimp from the Dock, but that's not a huge deal.
2. I went job hunting today... went fairly well. Lots of places wanted me to come back during the week when they are either less busy or their managers are there, but I got a few applications in and got a bit clearer idea of what areas/businesses are hiring currently and what ones aren't. Also got a lead on a possible job from my father today, when he pointed out that one of my mother's old bosses who she is still on good terms with is manager of Prints Plus in the Hamilton Mall. He'd been trying to get her to go back to work for him for a while... maybe he'll settle for me instead. Worth a try, anyway.
3. Having my laptop with me, and realizing around lunch time that I was near the apple store, I grabbed some fast food and ate my lunch outside it, taking advantage of their open wifi network (it extends a bit into the parking lot, it seems) to check my email and finish the second huge download in record time. I now have OpenOffice.org installed on my computer. Honestly, I think I like AppleWorks better, though. OpenOffice is probably going to be relegated to just opening Microsoft Word documents when I might need to. At least until they finish developing an OSX Native version... then, we'll see. But under x11 the integration with the rest of OSX's UI isn't as good as it could be. It still keeps menus at the top of each window rather than at the top of the screen, for example, and that's a little jarring now that I've gotten used to the Mac way of doing that. (And honestly, having file menus uniformly at the top of the screen rather than the top of the window feels MUCH more natural to me.) I also really like the many templates that come with AppleWorks.
4. Since I got home, I have been talking with the most wonderful man in the world (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
queerintheburg), downloading much nice free music from talented Filk artists, and finding interesting things that I had forgotten about organizing a job search in Jobhunting for Dummies, which I bought a while ago. :)
Life, overall, is good.
1. I woke up early this morning to find the first long-ass download had completed. My download manager program lets me specify a time for it to hang up, so I can leave downloads running at night and not even worry about it tying up the phone lines in the morning like the PC used to. I now have Gimp installed on this computer, filling my image-editing needs. This is also the first unix/x11 program that I have installed, and I was rather pleased to see that my installation of x11 is functioning properly. Still need to figure out how to make a shortcut to directly call Gimp from the Dock, but that's not a huge deal.
2. I went job hunting today... went fairly well. Lots of places wanted me to come back during the week when they are either less busy or their managers are there, but I got a few applications in and got a bit clearer idea of what areas/businesses are hiring currently and what ones aren't. Also got a lead on a possible job from my father today, when he pointed out that one of my mother's old bosses who she is still on good terms with is manager of Prints Plus in the Hamilton Mall. He'd been trying to get her to go back to work for him for a while... maybe he'll settle for me instead. Worth a try, anyway.
3. Having my laptop with me, and realizing around lunch time that I was near the apple store, I grabbed some fast food and ate my lunch outside it, taking advantage of their open wifi network (it extends a bit into the parking lot, it seems) to check my email and finish the second huge download in record time. I now have OpenOffice.org installed on my computer. Honestly, I think I like AppleWorks better, though. OpenOffice is probably going to be relegated to just opening Microsoft Word documents when I might need to. At least until they finish developing an OSX Native version... then, we'll see. But under x11 the integration with the rest of OSX's UI isn't as good as it could be. It still keeps menus at the top of each window rather than at the top of the screen, for example, and that's a little jarring now that I've gotten used to the Mac way of doing that. (And honestly, having file menus uniformly at the top of the screen rather than the top of the window feels MUCH more natural to me.) I also really like the many templates that come with AppleWorks.
4. Since I got home, I have been talking with the most wonderful man in the world (
queerintheburg), downloading much nice free music from talented Filk artists, and finding interesting things that I had forgotten about organizing a job search in Jobhunting for Dummies, which I bought a while ago. :)Life, overall, is good.