Yesterday was Mail Day!

Everything that I had ordered though the internet finallycame in  yesterday! The set of 16 drinking glasses I had bought from Macy's with the gift card I had won over Xmas online - The checks I had ordered online because bank checks now cost a fortune - The sox I had gotten on sale from Nonsense becaz I was impressed with the quality of a sample they had sent me - and the DRESS I had ordered from Amazon, which had gotten lost in the mail....(I had had to print out the paperwork from Amazon about deliveries & stick it in the mailbox for the postperson & it worked!)

Everything a bargain - the dress' list price was almost $35 & I paid $15 WITH shipping! I have so few dresses & it's hard to find the simple kinds I like without paying a fortune...$15 is almost a thrift shop price!

And in the mail there also arrived a skin sample from Murad - something from Walmart - and more FREE magazines, which I looked at during the TV commercials last night.

I struggled with the internet yesterday afternoon, trying to figure out features on my phone, like text and how to download pix - seems like I have to PAY for software for pix download?? Ugh. Do I have to schlepp my digital camera around??- I would like pix for my microblog at Zannel  ( see me at http://zannel.com/pamphyila - I am under L.A. Stories...)

More emphasis on show biz there...So I am back to my clip art archive...But my cell phone bill had an extra $12 for me - presumably for the computer stuff - so I have to be careful.  Otherwise I am not using it much.  But sometimes I have to check for emails on the boat over the wkends...Mark uses all our minutes for his job - wish he got more $ back for that...

Tech learning curves are hard - but fruitful.  The only way I have ever been able to learn tech stuff is thru the learn by the "doing & looking up along the way" route...Other than typing classes I took before it was known as keyboarding, I have never really taken any computer classes at all.  Everything I have done is pretty much self-taught, with the help of manuals and support materials...When I was a temp I had a library of manuals for various software programs when I switched off from one to another...Remember Wang?  And Wordperfect?  And even WordStar?? Old dBase? And I say to anyone who has ever learned the rules of a game like Monopoly, you, too can learn a computer - it's just another set of rules...

Today I look for semi-automated programs like Picasa imaging (free from Google) which have shortcuts to the easy features I want - like the programs at www.jumpcut.com which allowed me to save a couple of hundred bucks by doing the editing for my reel myself!

Feeling frustrated about my artistic unemployment - even tho the pirate flick was on the tube a week ago- so for all intents & purposes I AM working cyberly.  How strange. But it's all weird.  My buddy Eldon always gives me credit for hanging in there.  We are all underemployed artistically - and only the fanatics hang on because we HAVE to.  Tell that to any starry-eyed kids dreaming of performing success!

How are you?  My hubby's job seems secure - they need him - but then I read an article in the L.A. Times that said that the 30% of us in the US who think their jobs are OK are actually nuts.  But then, I never claimed that I wasn't.  Besides, I have been preparing all my life thru frugality for something like this!

Do you feel prepared??

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