Woman: Can you change the way this page prints.In actuallity she requested that it print on A4 size legal paper, but that's not quite as silly as blue paper. Yeah anyway.
Me: How so?
Woman: Change it so when I print it prints in landscape format and on blue paper.
Me: This is just a webpage, I can't change the paper in your printer from a webpage.
Woman. So that's a no?
Me: Correct.
I've been working on (designing mostly) a new project for myself. I've got a map, a BIG map. It was taken from an old elementry school and covered most of the wall of a small room. In the house I'm in now the walls are plaster so I can't very easily stick anything into them and hence nothing into a map hanging on the wall. So I got started thinking what I could mount the map on that I could tack things into and wouldn't cost an arm and a leg. I settled on sheetrock. This is going somewhere I promise. While trying to figure out how much I'd need and how to mount the map it occured to me that I a sheet of sheetrock would make a pretty good canvas - that I could paint a map on a sheet and go from there.
I get a project. I get to paint something other than walls, and I get to be (slightly) artistic. It's a go for me. Going to take some time I figure, but since it's winter and I don't really want to be working on outside projects it'll be convenient too. I don't imagine it'll take me much more than a week or two once I get the stencil and colors.
Plus I can label portions of the ocean "Here be dragons". We'll see if I can actually pull it off.
