I confess to being a bit behind just lately. I blame it all on
The Laptop Blues
I woke up in the morning. My laptop started to drag. I tried to make it better but it didn’t have room to defrag. I knew I had to replace it. I knew I had to talk tech. I knew I had to acquaint myself with the laptop’s modern spec.
I think I understand bus speed. I know how to increase my RAM. I also know all about drive speed - it’s that sort of girl that I am. Now how many USB ports? And how long does the battery last? Do I want an enormous great hard drive? Or less gigs but it really goes fast?
And I deliberated at great length ‘twixt the Turion and the Intel. Which processor to go for? Now how is a girl to tell? And I agonized for ages over caches level two. What capacity to go for? What is a girl to do?
And how hot do they get now? What’s the TDP? And shared or dedicated video RAM? I mean, how is a girl to see? So it’s down to the nitty gritty. There are two on which I am keen - And what technicality sways me? I’ll have the one with the biggest screen.
Enough of the blues - how about orange for this month’s Spectrum Project?
How about terracotta roofs?
And a terracotta dragon?
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Thursday 6th April 2006
Now that we are in April, the Project Spectrum colours have changed to orange and yellow. I love the idea of this project, but have realized that this sort of inspiration guideline does not work for me. In fact, I find it
rather stultifying. When an idea comes to me, it normally brings its own form, colour, texture and so on, with it. Sometimes it all works, normally it requires tweaking, but inevitably it dictates to me rather than me to it. Once the thing is formulated I can then repeat it in other colours and forms, but the initial process has to follow its own course.
The Project for March fell by the wayside. I did make this capelet in a stunning rose pink and gold yarn, but I adjusted a pattern I had purchased, so didn’t feel that it counted. So I have decided that although I shall follow the Project in other ways, thinking about the
colours and taking photos perhaps, I shall not necessarily apply it to my work.
Yesterday was so sunny, we felt we should take advantage of it and go to Richmond Park. Is there anything more yellow than a daffodil particularly with the light shining through it? At last it seems that spring is here bringing all her accoutrements with her. Birds seeking out nesting places, tiny insects hovering in the sunlight, a beautiful yellow butterfly that danced away too quickly for the camera, and a squirrel chattering angrily at us for being too close to its dray. We meandered to King Henry’s mound from which advantage point we could see St. Paul’s Cathedral, an
astonishing ten miles away. This is one of London’s ten protected sight lines, and this particular line crosses Richmond, Wandsworth, Fulham, Chelsea and Victoria to deliver the vista. I find it amazing that these bustling, built up boroughs can have this totally clear alleyway for ten miles, and I do hope that no-one ever disturbs it.
