Last Minute

Work for me today, and thankfully it's inter-disbursed with enough stuff that I don't get bored and it makes the day go that bit quicker. I also learn that I'm not the only person to be leaving at roughly the end of month and as another lady who does a similar job to me (but working on the GUI's of web based applications) is also departing as she's got a contract at a place that won't involve her commuting for an hour and half every day. Looks like work might be a bit short handed in a couple of weeks then.

At lunch I pop out into town to see if I can get a pressy for my Mum for mothers day, I failed miserably to spy anything in Oxford yesterday but I had a bit of a brain wave last night and figured she might like some cross stitch to do in her spare time. I pick up a lovely design which is of some fushias - however they had done it in a way where as it looks just like a water colour, sort of wishy washy with colour melting into eachother, which is something you don't often see with cross stitch designs as they can be quite blocky at times.

So with that purchased I head back to work where they've got even more awful work waiting for me, this time it's taking screen shots of an application they've built. Ordinarily I'd have just stuck with the printscreen function and stitched the images together in photoshop, but some of the pages they want grabs of are incredibly long so I decided to take the cheats way out and download a bit of software called SnagIt, which very handily will take screen shots of scrolling web pages with one mouseclick and save them however you so desire. So instead of taking me all afternoon to complete this bit of work it takes me less than an hour and I'm all done.

After work I go to the gym and do my usual thing, then back home I do tea and then set about wrapping gifts and writing cards out. I'm off to Wales tomorrow for a long weekend and so want to get as much prepared as I can before I head off - I'll have enough to do in the morning what with going to the gym without worrying about sellotape, wrapping paper and the like.

Posted by Abi on the March 24, 2006 9:18 PM