She Made Her Mark - Day Five

Today was a putz around day. My back brace behaves as a corset; it cause all my innards to complain. So I complain, too.

I got all the xerox work done. Got the mail prepared and finally out.

Began to work the photo deck that's on the laptop. Very frustrating as some images and some details are missing. Add to that the fact that the image files were rigidly and properly built in entrant's numberical order.

iPhoto must have an odd sense of humor; forget numberical order, even the full shots and the details are scrambled beyond recognition. Add tri-focal glasses and a selection of focal lengths in the software from half inch thumbnails to four inch squares trying to match up full and detail was time consuming. I can either see all the images, which means I can't reallysee them or I can see one or two images. One or two are great, nice resolution; but where on earth is the detail to match.

Peg came in and spent at least five hours banging out the remaining forty percent of the data base work. Whew! That's done.

Found a set of images picked off someone's email to replace the CD images of an unentered work. Fixed that. Started comparing the entrants' numbers with the image numbers. Found a few glitches. Pushed and shoved and used up a line that said empty. Finally got everything matched up.

Another ten woman hour day. Mailing expenses, too. Xerox expenses, including color ink. The meter is running.

And the real work has not even begun. I've heard a rumor that the work was all done. WHAAAATTTtt??????????????? The work has not begun. All we have accomplished is the secretarial work. Let's see what day six, seven, eight, nine, and ten provide.