I Just Found Out...

I know someone famous! Wow! One of the police officers at the City of Gresham has written a novel called Sniper Shot. It was really a good story, made even more interesting because it is about places I know and have been. Put this one on your "Books to Read" list if you like police drama/adventure fiction.

Now I'm totally changing the subject.

I've been trying for the past two hours to create a digital scapbooking page for a letterboxing event coming up in March. I SUCK AT THIS! OMG, it is so hard! I downloaded all these cool digital scrapping things from this great free stuff site. Since the gathering is on St. Patrick's Day, I'm going with an Irish theme. One of the things I downloaded was a cool alphabet. I didn't realize how nice it is when you get alphabets as individual files. I've been trying to take one file and create individual files for all the letters I need. I've been working with the following letters: S P R I N G F L I N G E R. I can't get the damned things to all be the same size and lined up where I want them. I need to take a class on how to use this stupid Adobe Elements program. Maybe I'll secretly have my uber-scrapper cousin Deb make these pages for me. She does BEAUTIFUL pages! And I don't remember her ever saying it took her two hours to NOT be able to make a page. I still don't have anything to show for it, except one piece of black paper with letters on it. Sigh. I'll try again.

Okay, just a little frustrated here.

And on another completely unrelated topic:

We got snow here! Thursday morning I woke up to about 3 inches of snow on the ground. I didn't get any pictures of it though...sorry. I need to get my own digital camera so I can be better about recording stuff like that. I shouldn't have driven to work, but I was stupid and I did. As I was driving out of my neighborhood, I over steered and ended up doing a 240 (little more than a 180, but not a 360) in the middle of the intersection. Luckily, no one was coming from the left, and the guy on my right was way back and in no danger of hitting me. I reversed and carefully got myself going in the right direction again, but I was mighty red-faced! There is still snow on the south side (where the sun doesn't hit) of the streets in my neighborhood. A few snowmen are still valiantly waving, a bit drunkenly now, from people's lawns. It's still pretty cold, but I guess we aren't going to get any more snow. Oh well. That's how winter goes in Oregon.

So that's it for today. BYE!