The things I do for love
Nov. 10th, 2005 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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selenite was looking at a page of bumperstickers, and came across one and was annoyed. I looked to see why. It was a sentiment he mostly agreed with, one word wrong.
So I said to him, would you WANT a bumpersticker that said it the other way? He would.
So I have spent a chunk of the evening fighting and railing and occasionally cursing the computer, the image manipulation program, and the Cafe Press website (must I shove every individual byte up the pipeline myself?) until I got a bumpersticker made that he liked. It's frankly rather visually better than the original one was, IMNSHO.
While I was at it, I finally ordered the Bujold quote wall clock I designed for the nursery some months ago, and the Project Orion t-shirt I did up after one of the typically odd conversationsselenite and Gerry and some of the other ORAC people got into many meetings ago.
For someone with utterly no background or training in graphics work or software, I don't do too badly. And generally the process always manages to teach me something new.
Even with the cursing at the computer, I *like* getting a chance to do something like this. I like making romantic gestures for the people I love - sometimes big grand ones, sometimes quiet ones just to show I pay attention and I care.selenite isn't the sort that lends himself to Great Romantic Ideas in the everyday run of life. But if I can find something like this, where I can make him something cool that he wants that he can't get otherwise, that's a great opportunity.
selenite was looking at a page of bumperstickers, and came across one and was annoyed. I looked to see why. It was a sentiment he mostly agreed with, one word wrong. So I said to him, would you WANT a bumpersticker that said it the other way? He would.
So I have spent a chunk of the evening fighting and railing and occasionally cursing the computer, the image manipulation program, and the Cafe Press website (must I shove every individual byte up the pipeline myself?) until I got a bumpersticker made that he liked. It's frankly rather visually better than the original one was, IMNSHO.
While I was at it, I finally ordered the Bujold quote wall clock I designed for the nursery some months ago, and the Project Orion t-shirt I did up after one of the typically odd conversations
selenite and Gerry and some of the other ORAC people got into many meetings ago. For someone with utterly no background or training in graphics work or software, I don't do too badly. And generally the process always manages to teach me something new.
Even with the cursing at the computer, I *like* getting a chance to do something like this. I like making romantic gestures for the people I love - sometimes big grand ones, sometimes quiet ones just to show I pay attention and I care.
selenite isn't the sort that lends himself to Great Romantic Ideas in the everyday run of life. But if I can find something like this, where I can make him something cool that he wants that he can't get otherwise, that's a great opportunity.
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Date: 2005-11-11 06:00 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2005-11-11 06:08 am (UTC)Tonight's bumpersticker:
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/designer.aspx?clear=true&number=37162889
The Bujold quote wall clock:
http://www.cafepress.com/kelthaven.20400396
(Maggie has the matching t-shirt, you may have seen it on her)
The Project Orion shirt:
http://www.cafepress.com/kelthaven.15317162
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Date: 2005-11-11 06:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-11-11 06:59 am (UTC)Kind of an "Oops" or "Holy Crap !! It Worked !!!" :-)
Of course selenite, being a real live Rocket Scientist, would probably have done the math and not been surprised...
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Date: 2005-11-11 12:54 pm (UTC)I can just SEE that image on one of Pegasus Pubs' shirts!
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Date: 2005-11-11 07:29 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-11 07:46 pm (UTC)He's my rocket scientist, and I love him.
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Date: 2005-11-11 09:42 pm (UTC)( Mentally adds burned paint and various scorch marks to the previous image. )
Just a little Heavy Metal train of thought - in reverse...
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Date: 2005-11-11 05:52 pm (UTC)The quote "All true wealth is biological" brings tears to my eye. Always did. Some of us did not choose to be childless but are anyway. [snif]
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Date: 2005-11-11 06:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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