New US Mailbox!

My US Mailbox had been activated finally! I can order anything I want at any time!!! ... providing that I have the money...
With my camera away from me, I started to work on some photos from Ireland again, but this time I was trying to be more systematic in my preview and work with the images, that is, I check the folders ascending according to the dates of the taken photos and I check what best fits and what I did not do before, and then I work with it in HDR way or any other way possible. Hence, I made 2 new samples into my collection yesterday;




These two photos were from the earliest and first snaps I shot in Ireland after reaching Galway. They were taken directly in the next morning for my arrival (which was by night and hence, a very tiresome time!). I'm not sure though that I would be able to complete a set of 30 images to send over by email however, but I will see what I can do, but this is going to be a slow progress.
In the mean time, I'm supposed to pick up my camera by tomorrow, and let's hope it's finished this time for real. I went on yesterday (because the guy there told me it would be finished by Monday) but it wasn't finished yet. The other guy who, as it seems, works in the workshop itself said that it will be over by Wednesday, and he advised me to call before going there. I'm ready to go, but not make a phone call!


Amid this fuss, I'm working on some images for some people who wanted to make out something out of them, but the results weren't always good in fact, and that depends largely on the composition of the photo and how large it is already. Hope they like what I do, because me, myself, don't like it all the time! I'm working on a brochure for my work place as well, and this one is taking a great deal of time, specially with the hardship when it comes to work with Arabic text. I had to use old versions of Photoshop just to get the text done and yet I was not totally free of troubles.


My happiness with the new Mailbox is not complete yet, since there some items that are not available in one site and I might have to roam around and collect them and send all over to my US box. I hate this already before trying it!


The yield for today was 3 verses, and although I had the power to go on with a fourth one, but I preferred to stay here and check my new mailbox and write this blog, and read my book.

New Mistake...

 Not a pleasant beginning for the first day of work in the new year, and a not so special new year's eve as usual (well, it should be normal by now). In fact, this feeling was accompanying me all along since yesterday or the day before... a feeling of emptiness and carelessness for everything in this life and all what surrounds me. Feels like hating everyone, and caring for no one, and the pressure with the early hours of the morning today was not helping either.
Canstockphoto seem to be encouraging me to submit more of my doodles! That's a happy bit in my life!


The day went on without progressing much in fact. I went to Canon workshop to pick up my camera and it was still not finished and then went on to the DHL facility to collect my money back after the destruction of my shipment in Ireland before it could reach the owner of The Waterfront, and yet, I couldn't get any money about this because they did not have the cash at present and the guy said he will call me (maybe this afternoon) to go and pick up the money. I hate this. At least, I paid for a US mailbox (in Ohio as he said) and it might be active soon enough. I've made a wishlist already in BH website. The total amount for my wishlist exceeds $600, that's around 200 K.D. maybe. Ah yes, and the other good thing I did today was to drop some of my purchase back home, so I don't have to carry lot of stuff when I'm going out of my work place. But all of that really isn't worthy for all that traffic jam and the craziness that I faced in the roads today, going out fomr my work place or going here and therThe e or coming back to my work place... it was all the same.


I discovered another mistake in the line numbering... jumping from #2485 to #2489, missing 4 lines. I have to count the "net" number of lines, I really did miss around and lost the count of the lines. I think Word and other word-processing programs are able to do so! There is no way to count that myself!
Despite the tiresome roaming of the roads from the morning, I managed to translate on verse before I set off, and some 2 verses (or were they 3?) after arriving. The amount is increasing easily since the control over the words in memory is great, till now. The final stop is line #2496.

At the current time I'm working on looking for a suitable EXR viewer (and there are some of them out there) to view the HDR pictures saved in OpenEXR format, but it would be nice if the program supported HDR and EXR formats, and yet be light for the memory. Unfortunately, my default viewer, ACDsee, does not support the 32-bit images even in the newer versions. Thus, I have to look for some program that becomes sort of a swiss-knife for wide range of formats. Otherwise, I'm going to need the Photoshop every time I want to view one of those 32-bit images... and Photoshop is no little baby!