Monday, September 22, 2014 @ 2:01 AM
Good morning. WooHOO! This is the new Microsoft program – there 365
Cloud or something like that. Joe, Cari
and Ramsey were over last night and as one thing leads to another – Joe gave me
one of his copies of the newer Microsoft package and we gave him our second
copy of the Adobe programs. As amazement
after amazement Joe was REALLY interested in getting a copy of Adobe
Illustrator because it was something he’d learned while he was a kid during the
years that I was gone. He played last
night when they were over a copy of Rich’s logo and I could just tell he was in
Joe-Bot heaven! Joe had at one time
during college been studying to be a computer programmer so things like
Dreamweaver and FLASH really interested him.
The Dreamweaver is Adobe’s most COMPLICATED web package tool. Joe said that he could actually make money
setting up web sites and that really excited me because it was an extra way to
provide income for his family. I also
liked it because Joe and I would be learning the same thing and going through
similar excitements. It’s just soooo
cool when one of your kids picks up one of the things you are most interested
in. WOW!
Pswhoo! Back. It turned out I was able to fall back to
sleep – slept on the couch for a while.
I wrote this and a note to Linda, then we slept until a couple hours
ago. It is now about 9 am. I think that it’s been about 3 weeks since
we’ve last written. The last time was write
after Katherine had been here, and now today, It is Dakota’s one month
anniversary of being with us. We think its
going extremely well. He’s such a good
dog. There are still incidents when
he’ll have an accident with his housetraining, but I think we’re much better
off now than we had been a month ago.
He’s still not doing real regular things to let us know he needs to go
out, but like when he doesn’t finish a whole meal, I know that he has to go to
the bathroom in-between things. And,
we’re better at feeding him about dinner time, then kenneling him while we eat. He gets a bone during that process and then
we know to let him out and he’s pretty good after that. I think when we have problems it is like he’s
saying – oh don’t let me bother you, I’ll just go over here! He’s got a favorite spot in the sitting room
behind the recliners, so we’re thinking he knows its wrong because he’s hiding
it.
We’ve only talked to Katherine a couple of times this month,
but she’s been very supportive of Dakota’s learning process. We’re both amazed as is Dr. Marvin that he’s
learned so much in the time we’ve had him.
There are just a few key things we’ve been working on other than
bathroom. One is to “Go on…” which means
that we’ve had enough of his attention seeking and he’s to walk away and
preoccupy himself on his own. And, then
similar to that is the command for ‘No petting.” This was developed mostly at Dr. Marvin’s
when he wants continual attention and “CAN’T” walk away because he’s on a leash
… it tells him we’re done petting and he should just lay down and chill. Last time at Dr. Marvin’s we just said it
once, and then he laid down and was out for most of the session until about 5
minutes before we left ... so that was enough time for him to get back adjusted
say good-bye to Dr. Marvin and for us to put back on his vest. He was a really good dog and we appreciated him
handling the situation so we could do the Dr. Marvin stuff we needed to do.
Hmm, my mother just called – it was less than a two minute conversation. She’s got a doctor appointment this
afternoon. She called yesterday and
she’s been having trouble falling again and some intestinal issues. She was in the doctor’s office and spent a
night in the hospital last week, but has now arranged things to be in again
because the anti-biotic medicine has not taken care of the problem. She called to let me know she packed a bag
just in case she has to stay overnight again.
I think that it’s a case of being over-prepared, but we’re glad she’s
taking her health seriously and is getting in when she should. She’ll give me a call later to let me know
how it is going.
I think everything else is in order this morning. I remember Rich trying to wake me about the
time he was leaving, but I was pretty much unconscious, couldn’t even lift my
head – he had to bend down to give me his kiss.
He’s really the nicest person we ever met! I’ll try to do him the reciprocal favor and
not eat the corn bread and extra pie while he’s gone. I am thinking he’s going to want me to save
that for dinner J See we CAN be a good Ann.
Missy just walked past and Dakota shared some of his uncomfortable
feelings. He’s always given Missy a wide
berth. Good dog!
We had such a good time with Joe and Cari here
yesterday. Cari only has approximately
just under 3 weeks to delivery. We’re so
excited for them. Part of them coming
over last night was to do a little private baby shower here. I wish we could have given them more, but we
got a gate for them like the one we got for Missy and Chief. It is the one with the special door that lets
through the cat, but everything else is stuck on the other side. I think they are planning to use it to keep
the baby on the upstairs part of the stairs going down. It sounds like it doesn’t have a door, or
maybe it does but they have to leave it open for the cat? I’m not sure, but we were happy to be able to
contribute toward the baby’s well-being AND the animals as well. We also gave them some cash. It seems like from what they were saying that
it will go toward taking care of getting a new person for the delivery
process. I forgot the name – it’s sort
of like a mid-wife, but different. I
think she does negotiating between them and the hospital staff. They are going to be in their natural
birthing area, but its within the hospital, so safe if anything were to
happen. Obviously, we’re hoping that
everything is going to be very normal.
I was so excited to be talking to them, it’s like we were
tripping over the conversation because it was such a wealth of information I’d
been looking very forward to. It’s just
been such a long time since we’ve seen them.
Like not at all since they first told us they were pregnant. Again VERY nice time!
The dogs got along very well. I think that Ramsey was a little more
submissive and Dakota a little more playful, but we’ll try to add the video of
the two playing … by the time the video was taken – he he Ramsey definitely was
involved in the game. He’s speedy fast
like Dakota. He’s stockier, but he
doesn’t mind as he bumps his way along to be in equal chase with Dakota. Dakota has home field advantage in that he knows
the chasing routes and is more agile (young) than Ramsey, or for that matter
Lady or Max Maury’s dogs. I’m really
glad they have developed a bit of a relationship and we’ll look forward to it
more in the future. I would like to see
the four dogs put together. None of us
have that kind of space – like a fenced back yard, but I’d still like to see
it. We might however have Rich climbing
the walls if we did it inside the house.
There was some concern over the dogs bouncing off Cari and the baby – so
that was a little protected, but we should be working harder to have Dakota not
bouncing off the couch. He does seem to
have a favorite “fort” location in back of my recliner. He can go around it in a circle really fast
and uses the space to out run the other dogs.
He’s just SOOO happy to be entertaining and enlarging his pack. We’re very happy for them all!
So that’s about it there … I’m sure everyone went home a
little more tired. Rich made a GREAT
meal of BBQ Pork Ribs, corn, waffle fries, salad and corn bread AND he even
cleaned up for me so that I could be with our guests longer. Cari watched the football game a little more
and talked with Rich when he got done and had an opportunity to rest, and Joe
and I had a chance to talk about our computer worlds. We showed him the work we’d done in the
morning with Rich’s web site and then we went into as we mentioned above
sharing our worlds with me giving him Adobe and him giving us Microsoft. We each had an extra machine copy that we
could download. Really happy about how
that turned out. I never expected to be
typing on a new MS 2013 Word program this morning. I like it’s lightness – no heavy design
colors, and I like the way when we reach the end of a sentence the page just
floats up ... It is very magical.
I think this morning we have to wash clothes, and then get
back to the work of putting together Rich’s Web program. Maybe you don’t know all that is going on
with that whole Adobe thing.
Basically, Rich and us got to talking about his web page and
we told him that if he paid the monthly fee of $49 (locked in for 2 years) that
I would commit to setting up a web page for him. The side part of that was that we’d also be
able to sign-up for our own web page for the Multiplicity. That is the true motivational part of the
project. Adobe has a program called,
Creative Cloud, and you get about 30 of their programs including their PDF,
lightroom, photoshop, illustrator, Muse, and so forth – basically, everything
you could ever want to put together web sites, photos, videos, flash, auditory
ANYTHING …. It’s just top of the line programming. They decided that instead of selling piece by
piece, they would sell monthly subscriptions – so they always have money coming
in and in the meantime the programs are always being constantly updated so you
have their top of the line issues. We
also went back and got the Captivate program.
Captivate was the main thing in the Adobe e-learning Suite we’d gotten
last fall when we first fell in love with Adobe. At that time we had their creative cloud too,
but we hadn’t used it enough so dropped it.
At the time we were getting the student packages.
With the e-learning suite – that had been about $1,800 and
because of really bad customer care, we complained in one of their forums,
which turns out to be very carefully watched – to help people through
problem-solving and we ended up with the suite for free ... well sort of … we’d
already put solid money – somewhere between $3-400 on the Captivate CS6
program. So that turned out to be a
really good idea, but like the other we weren’t using it like we should
have. But, now we have more
opportunities to be learning and using it.
There is a lot more time to work with it because now we are not in
school so don’t have all those deadlines looming over our head competing for
time.
The big deal of the e-learning suite and Captivate in
general is that it is a program to do online classes. The Overall feeling of what is going on now
is that Aynetal3 (US) are a web presence and our own brand, and that we’ll have
a website, that will tie to our blogs and most importantly it will tie to our
mind map AND it will tie to classroom learning … all those things will be a
part of our mother ship Hehehe which means it will all be about not only us,
but what we learn of Multiplicity in all the different means we offer. Before we went underground last year, we were
involved in these processes …
We haven’t done a whole lot of that for quite some time, but
now that it is fall again, we seem drawn back into the world. Matter of fact, we had seen this new
learning/teaching program and we’d dropped a note to our friends over at Plural
Activism, and then the guys Astraea had written back asking us to do a short
recording – forgot the term you now audio?
It will come to me. So we’ve got
that going on now too. In general, the
classroom part was – hmm, let me see if we can find it again!
AHA! It’s called
Versal.com
It’s a special course room to develop learning programs and
it gives a space to anchor the programs.
I think there is a special kind of language/code something that allows
it to load programs from the Adobe Captivate program, which we’d mentioned
before as a online learning classroom. I
forgot the code, but thought I’d seen it on the Versal program when we were
skimming.
I had told Rich after listening to several couple hour long
videos on the newest changes in Adobe and Apple through their big conferences
that I was going to switch my title to a “Creative”. He said we would have to check that with the
boss – meaning him. We were prepared for
that … we said that we consulted for him and that he was one of our customers,
but the bigger umbrella was going to be us as the one that pulls together All
this really fantastic stuff under the Aynetal3 title which might include not
only him, but our website and all that’s in it and maybe doing things like
helping Katherine out with her website or any other creative avenue we do … Our
biggest contract of course will be the Multiplicity thing that we are now going
to work through from our web page. That
was the deal – we’d get the really good creative cloud from Rich for $49 per
month, but that we would be able to not only do a web page for him, but our
baby as well. I’m just so gosh darned
excited. We’ve watched about 100 videos
so far teaching the basics of some of the programs on Adobe. We haven’t really practiced them yet, but
maybe that will happen today. The nice
thing about a web page is that it is stable and easily accessed by the
web. Some things like the mind map
aren’t really accessible too much from the Google searches, but some of the
other things are coming together, and will be even more potent when we get the
web page figured out.
Yesterday morning and a little from the day before, we went
in and started doing some preliminary work on Rich’s Web site. As mentioned we did a lot on the video
watching, but we decided to really focus a bit on the content. Our basis was the one page that Rich sends
out in his emails and which is the total some and substance of the web site his
son helped him with. That’s it though –
his present web page is just that one page.
So we brought it to our mind map and worked it into it’s own outline and
then we went through about 30 sites through packaging and assembly services
which is Rich’s main stake. We decide to
build about 9 pages which contain pages for Home, About us, Specialties,
Operations, Services, Solutions, Industries Served, Request Quotes, and Contact
us. And, then under all those categories
we’ve got sub-categories and data under even that so that we have a very
comprehensive outline of his services.
When going over the other sites, with all their ideas, we were just
picking and choosing things that made sense in Rich’s business.
The bottom-line outline I think is going to be really
good. More things might be taken out,
changed, or reordered, but we took the time to do some reordering while we were
working on it yesterday morning so we’re pretty happy as a first run with
it. I think the categories or TABS which
all the above will become are strong and should be fairly straightforward to
anyone looking at the site. I think the
only one not filled in right now is the Home key and that we’ve decided will be
just a few things like the tabs in a paragraph form with links, and then also
on the cover page a strong link toward the page where the viewer can write in
for a free quote. That’s sort of the
bottom line is to get them signed up!
And, there should be a page for a newsletter. Basically, part of the blog program is to
send out a communication once every month or two feeding the customer with new
information and again a direct reminder that we do services they might
want. I would like to add a blog part of
course, being me, but that might be a little more challenging in that either
Rich or I would have to keep up with it, and we’re not really familiar with
information in his field and Rich isn’t really familiar with regular
communication to be putting something out.
I really like them when included in most web pages, but if you don’t get
to it regularly then they work backward.
People think you are not up to date.
I think Rich has to walk a line too in that he doesn’t really want to give
information on his customers, because that just puts things out to others to
“take away.”
I’m kind of thinking that if we were to do anything there,
we might get a couple of trade magazines.
I know that Rich used to have some coming in, and then we’d have to skim
them and write from those kinds of resources about things happening in the
industry. It might serve a function to
keep up on the more simple processes of packaging and assembly services. We’ve spotted too a couple locations on line
for membership in certain associations also with good info, but they tend to be
more like costly associations which might be more helpful to bigger
organizations, but we’re just not there.
This goes especially with new-fangled machine operations that simplify
processing, but are too star-spangled to ever be considered in Rich’s
shops. He’s really a mom and pop
organization. And, we have to remember
that.
The main purpose for Rich to have a Web site is just to
maintain an online presence. Secondarily
to bring in leads and then after that maybe contribute back into the
conversation. That will take some time
and probably by the time we get there, he will be ready to retire.
There was a bit of conversation a couple days ago – Friday,
when we took a ride with Rich on his daily chores and we got to the part of
looking into a website for him – basically his web address. We can be working on his project now because
Adobe has something called, “Business Catalyst” which is a series of five
temporary sites we can be using temporarily from 3 months to 2 years. But, really they are practice sites, and then
gateways to plugging in your own web address. Rich was saying something more abstract and
we didn’t even want to hear it because the name wasn’t including the name of
himself or his business together. To us
that’s REALLY the way to go and we don’t want to budge from there. He on the other hand wants to go more
abstract and we’re saying you don’t understand how things are done and you are
going to need trusting us on some of the basics like this. I know to register is only like $9-10 but in
being able to have something people remember – You really have to go the most
basic.
We were a little bit like it with the outline too. I think from his comments after seeing it
yesterday morning, he was more appreciative of my work than he’d thought. There were a few services he wasn’t sure he
wanted to advertise, but that was just a minor detail. They main thing we were getting to was his
general organization of the site. We
plan to have short pages with not much more than the simple outlines on each,
but we’re going to have it done well and make it look professional as we can
including his contact information and the logo he wants to use. It’s a little more complex than our taste,
but I’m sure it is going to work out fine in the end. Last night when Joe was here, he worked a
little with the logo in illustrator separating out the lion in the crest and
then the crest from the more complicated parts of the image in the
background. I loved that he knew how to
work with layers. GOOD JOE!!!
Those kinds of things will be important and it will be
important to work with it in Illustrator so we can make the image clear and
still be able to resize it. I will want
to work a little later on adding just the first few things to the Master pages
like pages for all the elements we have so far and maybe adding text boxes for
the information that we’ve outlined. I
think it will take a little longer coming up with a series of designs through
other suggestions as to framing in each picture. This part is a little scary for me because
I’ve never done it, though from what I’ve seen there is a lot of simplicity to
it. I wish we had more pictures to add,
because I think most pages are better with at least one, but We’ve really only
got one picture and the making for a logo and neither is ready for that kind of
exposure. Just want to get to the part
that things are sketched in.
Through the process last night with Joe we ran our ideas
past him and he did the same with the web pages he created for his father and
for the one he’d started to work with for his own Karate business. That one is very basic at this point. The one for his father has tons of pictures,
which is really an important aspect of showing of the work he does as a
Victorian Painter, but as all things can improve.
I’m thinking this morning we have a lot of “busy thoughts”
running through our head. One of the
things we’ve talked to Dr. Marvin about this month – OTHER than our weight and
fitness program are running askew is that we might need to go back to the mind
map to sketch out not only Rich’s business, but our own. We want to be able to place all these things
that we’re talking about and we want to work on things as if it were yesterday
and everything is completed. We have to
walk a solid line in thinking we don’t want to overwhelm ourselves again, but
in the meantime realizing there is soooo much to do and we’ve just barely
caught the surface of ordering our world so that it more succinctly makes sense
and can be picked up by others.
I think the main problem besides starting or getting back to
some of these other projects is that there is so much work to do getting
through what we wanted to do with other Multiples’ blogs and the searches
through the Google program. We’ve
continued to pull together information but we are way back to about a year ago
in pulling information together … there are a couple main things there in that
we want everything represented, but with the number of medium steps we have –
there isn’t enough time to catch up.
Maybe one of the things that we should consider is getting the news
collated not with us going through it at this moment, but putting the emails in
some kind of form and function that others can sift through it or at least so
there is a collection of it so that it is available as a library to be searched
later and put to more usefulness. We
really want to curate, but there is another big responsibility to just collect
the information to keep it current.
The other main part relates to the curating in that there is
a final end need to be able to pull all the information out there which is
deafening so that it can make sense to others by looking at it. When we were working to the level of the
slideshow and through Learnist, we were able to make comments which really used
ourselves as a base with the work that we’ve done with Dr. Marvin as something
of upmost importance as another level of looking at things with other
Multiples, or with those interested in them.
Basically, it is defining our own voice amongst the others. You know the kind of stuff that defines –
what is our purpose anyway?! I think the
bottom line is that we want to become a resource of well-put-together
information that collects maybe not from the professional world, but from the
common experience of day to day Multiples.
Of course the other material works itself in, but there is something to
be really said about direct experience and understanding of oneself(ves).
There is this other part too that Dr. Marvin sometimes
reminds me of and that is going through the work of Paul Dell and his
Disassociation book which has the conglomeration of really big professionals on
the subject. It was always a dream world
to associate what they were saying with the general flow of experience of the
regular (like me/us) multiples. Kind of
a counter-balancing of each other, because right now those worlds are really
separated. I think there are some like
Astraeas’s, the Plural Activism group and others who collect information and
knowledge and some of it tends to play off with other groups, like through PODS
and Mosaic. I know there’s probably TONS
of other sites that have gone into trying to make sense of the Multiple World
both inside and outside of common or professional windows. We are subject to concern when we think that
any one organization holds all the answers.
To us it’s just that the discussions and defining of terms hasn’t been
done. It is frightening that so much of
the professional work that has been done prices itself out of the ability of regular
Multiples to even read the material if they can understand the ton of encryption
that has gone through the explanations of processes. It seems most professionals want to coin the
next part of the all in all understanding of Multiplicity and the terms cross
understandings. I think it is up to
researchers, which in another life I would have loved to be a part of – but,
they will have to sort it out. Having a
book like Dell’s is a first step. For
those not knowing much about it – it has about 46 different chapters by even
more specialists in the field all talking about their most understanding aspect
of the phenomena. We’re going to go on
the side of Astraea’s group in not considering Multiplicity to be a disability. Although I really need to better understand
the way they look at things and sort it out.
Basically, they do have valid information to include and I want that
really to be part of the organization of our little Multiples’ World. As well, I would like to learn the names of
people involved at the personal and professional levels so I can add there part
of the conversation in that which becomes the GREAT conversation!
I know there are probably other books that have come out
since Dell’s in 2011, but I’m not really aware of it. Hmm, Maybe I should stop over at Amazon and
take a peek? Hmm, nope … we checked
under DID, then for 4 stars & Up, and then New and popular. There Were 75 titles that came up including
Dells, but there were not other professional group that wrote a book more
recently than that book. I did see
Moline’s book (2013), but we’ve already discussed our thoughts on that and him
writing as a professional, but another writing after having experienced
Multiplicity minimally and after that having drawn conclusions – and that from
more a disbeliever’s view. SO … we’re
considering ourselves caught-up J
Ok, then … thinking through that and wanting more an outline
than actual start of work – how do we take in Dell’s book so that our own work
becomes more ordered? We have a tendency
to get blown away – I think in real life we’ve gotten up to chapter 11 and on a
practical level it doesn’t really correspond to the work or understanding we
have.
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