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Another Saturday, Ill-Spent
Jul. 25th, 2020 07:20 pmWent downtown for magazines and/or books - properly masked - and to reassure myself about several businesses whose well-being I've come to value over the years.
Globe Mags and Cigars, check.
Eclection Fanfreluche, check. (They sold me a salt-and-pepper shaker set I liked the looks of, and the owner is a fellow Intelligence fan.)
After I left Chapters/Indigo-Rideau, though, was when I encountered the annoying fright: an anti-masker. Black hair, Northern Euro-Canadian, age roughly 40-50...and frighteningly obnoxious about her anti-mask-ness, demanding to know why I was masked up. I managed to skirt around her, even as she kept ranting at me.
The memory-shock has stuck with me on the transit ride back out to Orléans and into the evening, though.
I could have handled everything else well enough but for that encounter, I think.
Not everyone likes seeing other people trying to watch out for one another. Clearly.
Dammit.
Spending the rest of the day continuing the housekeeping work re: the new iMac. Examples of priorities?
Architecture/3D design: Looks like SketchUp 7 still works. Once I plugged in the license data, it reactivated on the new machine just fine. I doubt I can afford to update to a version new enough to really use High Sierra any time soon, though.
Photo-Comic design: ComicLife needs updating, but that might be easier and much less financially painful than I might fear.
Astronomy: Gaia Sky still won't work. It shuts down less than a minute after I try to launch it. I really want a proper piece of modern planetarium-ware, and this one from Heidelberg University looks like it will do well enough for now. If I can get it to work. Other Mac users manage well enough, and there's apparently a fix available.
Comic-bookery: I'm still adding materials, brushes, 3D models, colour sets, etc. to Clip Studio Paint at a steady clip. If it's free and it looks like I can use it, I grab it.
More as any of us thinks of it.
*hands over the mic to the audience...*
Globe Mags and Cigars, check.
Eclection Fanfreluche, check. (They sold me a salt-and-pepper shaker set I liked the looks of, and the owner is a fellow Intelligence fan.)
After I left Chapters/Indigo-Rideau, though, was when I encountered the annoying fright: an anti-masker. Black hair, Northern Euro-Canadian, age roughly 40-50...and frighteningly obnoxious about her anti-mask-ness, demanding to know why I was masked up. I managed to skirt around her, even as she kept ranting at me.
The memory-shock has stuck with me on the transit ride back out to Orléans and into the evening, though.
I could have handled everything else well enough but for that encounter, I think.
Not everyone likes seeing other people trying to watch out for one another. Clearly.
Dammit.
Spending the rest of the day continuing the housekeeping work re: the new iMac. Examples of priorities?
Architecture/3D design: Looks like SketchUp 7 still works. Once I plugged in the license data, it reactivated on the new machine just fine. I doubt I can afford to update to a version new enough to really use High Sierra any time soon, though.
Photo-Comic design: ComicLife needs updating, but that might be easier and much less financially painful than I might fear.
Astronomy: Gaia Sky still won't work. It shuts down less than a minute after I try to launch it. I really want a proper piece of modern planetarium-ware, and this one from Heidelberg University looks like it will do well enough for now. If I can get it to work. Other Mac users manage well enough, and there's apparently a fix available.
Comic-bookery: I'm still adding materials, brushes, 3D models, colour sets, etc. to Clip Studio Paint at a steady clip. If it's free and it looks like I can use it, I grab it.
More as any of us thinks of it.
*hands over the mic to the audience...*
