sure ain't kansas
by Tony Peters on July 13, 2008
well I've had my MAC for almost a month now and I'm pretty much converted I received my Education edition of Photoshop last week and it didn't take me a day to realized that CS3 is drastically different that CS2...Time to start learning again (not that that is a bad thing)...Thankfully it comes with video workshop I'm about half way through it, funny thing It's kindled an enjoyment to learn again...I picked up Adobe's Classroom in a book...and am beginning it as soon as I finish the workshop. I'm really enjoying learning again, I guess I really am ready for a change
The funny thing is I retire next year and thanks to Jim Webb I have a very lucrative GI Bill fund returning to school, I'm still not sure I'm going to do it but if my wife gets the promotion she wants the GI Bill and my retirement should allow me to go back to school instead of going to work immediately. What's new for me is how much I am actually looking forward to the idea of school plus the irony of possibly graduating from the University I was tossed out of for spending too much time not attending class because it wasn't what I wanted to do it was just what I thought was expected of me, which is the reason I ended up in the Navy in the first place...If I do go back to school I know what I want to do and plan on treating just like a job, albeit a really enjoyable job but a job none the less.
Four Replies to sure ain't kansas
Tony Peters | July 14, 2008
absolutely, my only realy worry is that I want my degree in Art, photgraphy/graphics being the majority of what I want to study. The thing I noticed is that URI still does it's 100/200 level photography with film something I haven't cared to touch in a while...hopefully I'll get credet for Navy experience (probable) and not have to deal with film, yes I know I'm spoiled but at this point I prefer digital
Jackie Mason | July 15, 2008
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Scott Hardie | July 15, 2008
Many things, probably starting with philosophy and history. Those felt shortchanged in my college education. If I had the physics background, I'd love to dig deeper into astronomy too.
What would you study again? Perhaps this is better asked in TC.
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I read Daily Beast for mush of my news because I like the tone and because there aren't many conservatives left who don't deal exclusively in hate (Hannity Rush etc) I actually used to consider myself a conservative but I can't reconcile their embrace of ignorance nor their dismissal of a changing word. Anyway Meghan McCain wrote an interesting piece on the old guard's disregard for the internet Go »argh
I got a phone call this morning from work (I'm on vacation) wondering if I know that I'm transferring in 2 weeks???? SAY WHAT???? yet again (this is the 3rd time) the Navy is transferring me to another job in the same area. Go »post pain pump
spending nearly a day on a Morphine pump was great but, it did little to prepare me for being out of the hospital or for that matter give me any idea just how much pain I was going to be in. Before I left the hospital my wife (who is a Nurse, the Pain Management Nurse at the hospital and I worked out this plan for the meds I was gonna need over this 1st week of my recovery...well that slowly disintegrated yesterday afternoon and by midnight I was in tears while my GSP sat with me licking my face...2 Go »Art........
OK so since the summer my creative obsession has been growing. It started in my drawing 2 class with a professor who would turn out to be the man who has completely changed how I both look at and create art, Ben Anderson is an interesting man The first serious piece of the semester was Morf, a Gargoyle I created using mostly found metal from a local bike shop (I have taken to visiting on a weekly basis to acquire additional materials....Morf was the first time I have had a piece of art that I am woking to create completely dominate my thoughts. Go »more liquid metal
My sculpture Professor decided that the burner we use for melting metal wasn't working out well, since it was designed for a forge and not a furnace he had a furnace burner made.....it used to take hours to melt 20lb of bronze, it took us 40 minutes yesterday. I have never seen the crucible as hot as it was. Go »
Scott Hardie | July 14, 2008
Same here. I skipped too much class in college to stay home and work on my web site, and now those skills have given me a career... but if I were to come into enough money that I wouldn't have to work any more, I'd feel inclined to go back to college just for the sake of learning. If youth is wasted on the young, so is university.