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Tue, Jul. 21st, 2015 08:22 pm
So many things happening. I've stuck in the cornice piece in the studio, so the studio is now FINISHED, including all the fiddly fartarsey bits :D Also the curtains were installed today, which finishes the bedroom and gets a start on the living room. Bedroom is PERFECT. The real test will be in the morning to see how it goes at blocking light. So that's DONE now, except for a pretty thing I want to put on the chest of drawers, being a log with air plants attached to it, inspired by this sort of thing. I found a log on Sunday which is now at Mum and Dad's drying by the fireplace with a note saying DO NOT BURN attached to it. Once it's dried I'll figure out what to actually do with it.
Living room curtains are a little less saturated than I'd thought but still lovely. It's hard to tell from a single swatch sample what it's going to look like covering an entire wall, but it feels so much cosier in there with curtains instead of vertical blinds. Also new pull-down white blinds, both in living and bedrooms, so I can let light in without my nosey neighbours snooping on me as soon as I open the vertical blinds. SO GOOD.
Sunday I did a brush pen lettering day course thingie, which was fabulous fun and so so useful. I'll stick what I did up on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
h_bee later on. We started with two pencils rubber-banded together to get the idea of the thick and thin, which is pretty much what it's all about, getting that contrast between thick and thin lines. She gave us two pens each and I'm now going to have to invest in some more. Cos. PRETTY. They're so much fun to letter with and I'd love to try lining something with them, too. Expect lettering things soon. Yes.
It was really well-structured, moving through basic movements to get used to the pens, showing us how to do some particularly tricky letters like that swishy lower-case r and just S in general (the trick is to just let it do its own thing and don't try and force it, then it just comes out swishy and natural), going through the alphabet, linking letters together, playing with different baselines for each letter of the work (omg hers looked so pretty. I couldn't get the knack. PRACTICE.) and finally making a nice composition of a short phrase. The one I had in mind is the one in my icon there, but figured it was too long for such an exercise, so she suggested shortening it to just 'True strength is only eating one square' which worked out nicely. It was SO much fun. She reckons she'll do a follow-up closer to the end of the year, so I'll totally be in on that.
Then raced up to Mum and Dad's for the Showdown, which was the most epic Showdown I think we've ever had. Walshy would've been proud of both sides. 3 point win omfg. They played so well for the first three quarters, though, especially the very beginning, which is where we've been sucking most of the year. Aaaah I love footy.
Yesterday, up at Mum and Dad's again to pick up bread and got home later so didn't get the chance to update then, and then today MORE stuff happened.
At work, our entire system was broken from about lunch time. One of my workmates installed some ransomware. She's been sending out bunches and bunches of statements and invoices to clients who have outstanding accounts of more than 30 days, and likewise requesting them from our suppliers (long story short, our now-former accounts person was shit and now there's heaps of stuff that's marked incorrectly as either paid or unpaid and it's taking an age to go through and sort it all out). So when she got an email mentioning the attached statement 'from' a client, she opened it without double checking.
We noticed probably within half an hour, maybe an hour, when bits of job bags and invoices weren't working anymore. The ransomware had infected all the jpg files associated with the quoting system. So we yanked all the network cables from everything, including the servers, and that was the end of productivity for the day. At last update, outside IT guys are working on it. It only got as far as the quoting system's server, which is completely backed up as of last night (so if we lose anything it'll only be from this morning) and hasn't touched anything like artwork files or the files that operate the printers.
I did a bit of finishing, rubber-banding some stuff to go out, bit of laminating... made a coffee... yep. Sat reading a chapter of book until about 4:20 when I decided this was ridic and went home.
And now I've only just caught up on almost three days of the standards. So much stuff happening! Now I will take Shwiggy to bed and do some writing, maybe. If the feels let me. Writing feels is HARD.
Living room curtains are a little less saturated than I'd thought but still lovely. It's hard to tell from a single swatch sample what it's going to look like covering an entire wall, but it feels so much cosier in there with curtains instead of vertical blinds. Also new pull-down white blinds, both in living and bedrooms, so I can let light in without my nosey neighbours snooping on me as soon as I open the vertical blinds. SO GOOD.
Sunday I did a brush pen lettering day course thingie, which was fabulous fun and so so useful. I'll stick what I did up on
h_bee later on. We started with two pencils rubber-banded together to get the idea of the thick and thin, which is pretty much what it's all about, getting that contrast between thick and thin lines. She gave us two pens each and I'm now going to have to invest in some more. Cos. PRETTY. They're so much fun to letter with and I'd love to try lining something with them, too. Expect lettering things soon. Yes.It was really well-structured, moving through basic movements to get used to the pens, showing us how to do some particularly tricky letters like that swishy lower-case r and just S in general (the trick is to just let it do its own thing and don't try and force it, then it just comes out swishy and natural), going through the alphabet, linking letters together, playing with different baselines for each letter of the work (omg hers looked so pretty. I couldn't get the knack. PRACTICE.) and finally making a nice composition of a short phrase. The one I had in mind is the one in my icon there, but figured it was too long for such an exercise, so she suggested shortening it to just 'True strength is only eating one square' which worked out nicely. It was SO much fun. She reckons she'll do a follow-up closer to the end of the year, so I'll totally be in on that.
Then raced up to Mum and Dad's for the Showdown, which was the most epic Showdown I think we've ever had. Walshy would've been proud of both sides. 3 point win omfg. They played so well for the first three quarters, though, especially the very beginning, which is where we've been sucking most of the year. Aaaah I love footy.
Yesterday, up at Mum and Dad's again to pick up bread and got home later so didn't get the chance to update then, and then today MORE stuff happened.
At work, our entire system was broken from about lunch time. One of my workmates installed some ransomware. She's been sending out bunches and bunches of statements and invoices to clients who have outstanding accounts of more than 30 days, and likewise requesting them from our suppliers (long story short, our now-former accounts person was shit and now there's heaps of stuff that's marked incorrectly as either paid or unpaid and it's taking an age to go through and sort it all out). So when she got an email mentioning the attached statement 'from' a client, she opened it without double checking.
We noticed probably within half an hour, maybe an hour, when bits of job bags and invoices weren't working anymore. The ransomware had infected all the jpg files associated with the quoting system. So we yanked all the network cables from everything, including the servers, and that was the end of productivity for the day. At last update, outside IT guys are working on it. It only got as far as the quoting system's server, which is completely backed up as of last night (so if we lose anything it'll only be from this morning) and hasn't touched anything like artwork files or the files that operate the printers.
I did a bit of finishing, rubber-banding some stuff to go out, bit of laminating... made a coffee... yep. Sat reading a chapter of book until about 4:20 when I decided this was ridic and went home.
And now I've only just caught up on almost three days of the standards. So much stuff happening! Now I will take Shwiggy to bed and do some writing, maybe. If the feels let me. Writing feels is HARD.