Nick Postagulous
Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Adventures
Yesterday, I left work early. Alison's mom had a doctor's appt and so she took Nina by Alison's work. I left from my work and picked Nina up. Since we were downtown anyway, we went by Big Spring Park. Nina really had fun. She happily screeched at the ducks. She happily screeched at the pidgeons. She happily screeched at the seagulls. She pointed at the fish and made octopus noises. We saw the little rooster that lives near the parking garage. A toddler boy tried to poke Nina in the eye. A good time was had by all.
Once back in the car, Nina told me that she needed to go to the bathroom. I decided the library would do. And let me warn anyone going to the main branch of the library here, the male bathroom stalls don't have doors. No biggie for me, really, as I was just letting Nina go. She didn't produce anything, but her diaper was soaked when we got there, so the few minutes it took to get there were probably too much.
What Have You Done With My Daughter?
All the fun was about to come to a screeching halt when we got home. Nina was very fussy. I knew she was short on food, but she didn't want to eat anything. I offered a bottle, bread, and tortilla. She took a piece of tortilla, but after just plain being gross with it, she handed it back to me.
I omit all fussing in the description of what happened, because there was 90% fussing by Nina and 10% everything else. Nina was like the Flash, or one of those people in the Matrix. She was able to fuss faster than time would allow. It was time for Baby Brainwash (aka Baby Beethoven). Nina watched that, mesmerized, and I read some of my book, Migraine. When that was over, she wanted a Blue's Clues.
But Blue's Clues is not enough to satisfy the fussy baby. She wanted to draw. She first let me know this by taking a pen out of my pocket and trying to draw on my book. Did you know she can click retractable pens now? She can.
I got her drawing pad and crayons and she drew on the table, smashed crayons with the box, threw crayons, smashed crayons with a plastic bin, and stabbed at my eyes with crayons. Well, not the stabbing, really. But the crayons were soon rescued from her wrath and much crying did ensue.
After she was done with that, I tried to keep her happy, but nothing I could do was good enough. Eventually, I told her that I wanted to go to the bathroom, which actually means she's going to the bathroom. If I ask her if she needs go to, she'll say no if she's in a fussy mood.
Once Nina was on the toilet, we heard the garage door open. Mommy was home. Nina started crying. Alison came in. Nina was happy to see her. Alison walked into the kitchen to put down her purse. Nina cried. Alison came back. I left and hid upstairs on the computer for the next hour. More on that later.
After a while, I played with Nina and Alison with balloons. Yesterday was the first day that I let Nina know that the air can come out of balloons. We did the balloon flying around thing, but she seemed to like the small hole expelling air in a fine stream better. We only popped one, and it didn't scare her. After the pop, I started using kitchen shears to make the cut into the balloon so air could come out.
Computer Problems
My download speed is 242 somethings and my upload speed is 22 somethings. The reason my internet seems so slow is because of that upload speed. My requests for web pages is too slow, or something. This explains why I can download entire albums (like the Danzig I'm listening to now) from AllofMP3 quickly and easily, but if I just try to check my email it craps out. I called Bellsouth and the 14 year old who functioned as my tech support said he would see what the deal is and call me today around 5:30 p.m. I don't know when he's really going to call, since he was unable to understand that I wasn't in the eastern time zone.
Please, bellsouth. No more teen tech support people. Please, transfer me to India where they'll actually know something about computers.
Another Composite
I have a few composite faces working now. One is of 33 fairly random girls from my high school year book. Actually, 32 of them were either friends or school co-worker types. I added one of the popular gals, kind of like almond extract, because of her excellent looks. I could always exclude her, as it doesn't seem that her addition really changes the influence of the 32. And while I have nearly all the nodes placed, I did so on the raw scans which had only been cropped. I need to overcome the moire dots of the printing on each image before I composite them.
Also, I'm actually making three for that one. I have a composite made of the first 16 and I'm nearly finished with a composite of the next 17. Then I'll merge those into one. However, it's amazing how similar the two composites looks so far.
Of interest is that I was able to drop all the non-girlfriends out of the first one and see a composite of four of the girlfriends I had in high school. Interestingly, they kind of looked like another gal I dated who wasn't included in the composite. I was curious if it composite would look something like Alison.
I need to do some composites with Alison in them.
Another neat thing was when I was moving from composite 1 to 2 and needed to take the nodes over. So I deleted all but one image from the project (it happened to be Christine Burgess) and added the first from the second project (which was Holly Crocker). You would not believe how unbelievably cute a hybrid Chris/Holly is. They both had great attitudes and it really shows in their facial features.
Now that I have my node configuration, and more importantly prepwork process, ironed out a little, I think will do a composite of some males, just so I don't do all females. And regardless of what Alison says, I'd like to do mug shot pictures too. Oh, and the cats too.
I am a geek.
