Bonjour, Ni hao, 'ello.
Here as titled, is my previous Word experience as well as techniques and other things that caught my eye.
I'd been using Word since I was in school having been blessed to have a computer class pretty much every year of elementary school. (For those of you who may or may not remember, Kid Pix was and still is the most epic program ever.) I'm pretty familiar with the layout of Word thanks to these classes having used it to write papers and to learn to type without looking at the keyboard. In the BCIS class I took in high school, I became familiar with the block style when used for writing business letters as listed in the exercises of Chapter 2.
The Publisher program of Microsoft Office is the only program mentioned in Chapter 1 that I don't know how to use so I'd like to learn about that.
In Chapter 2, Document Collaboration was the feature mentioned that I wasn't familiar with at all because I hadn't used it before. It seems like a handy tool to know how to use when working in a group on a presentation or with a tutor or editor on a paper or article.
Finally, in Chapter 3, using clip art and positioning graphics with the new Word has proven to be a bit difficult for me so that would be another thing I'd like to review.
That's all for the moment so until next time.
- Adain
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Me?..
Hello, hello. My name's Adan and I have a sense of humor. So I'm open to nicknames. I've been known to answer even to expletives though I wouldn't recommend going that far unless you're willing to accept that in return. I have many nicknames as it is to choose from, so it won't be necessary to use anything from your four-letter-word vocabulary: Adain, Damian, Uhdawn, King George, Gizmo, and Aladdin among others. Adain (uh-dane) is the most recent and common nickname.
If you're going to ask me which I prefer, I'll tell you to do whatever makes you happy because I'll try to pay attention either way and flat out tell you if I can't or I won't.
I was born and raised in Laredo, Texas. I love to write and express myself through music, stories, poetry and at times art. I also like to think I'm good at said means of expression. Having put that out there, my secret fact is that I want to travel to Europe one day as some kind of performer to perform and travel around a continent I've always wanted to see. Aside from a student run orchestra/groups-of-students-doing-crazy-stuff-with-instruments group called Tuche, I haven't joined any music ensembles or done any plays or displayed any art here at Trinity yet but I feel that soon, the time for all that will come.
Now for places, the Google Earth wasn't being good to me and the links have been getting fixed all afternoon, so I improvised and technically used Google Earth to get these pictures but had to print screen them and get links to the pictures by other means so bare with me. I went through way too much trouble to get two pictures to not put them both here so here are my two favorite places in my hometown. This first link is to a picture of Church's Chicken.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x196/adnadedamien/Place2-ChurchsChicken.jpg
This is my favorite place to get friiiiiied chicken. And yes... There's a difference between fried chicken, and friiiiiied chicken (5 more Is, yes.) To put it briefly, I've had many laughs with my friends here, coming at odd hours cursing them for not being open 24 hours like IHOP. Though I have to say it was probably just me cursing the place because I usually wanted friiiiiied chicken at their awesome price more often than anyone else anyway. And IHOP was too expensive. Why aren't there free refills on anything but water there? Not relevant but it made this Church's Chicken better to me. It also means a lot to me on a personal level. I actually went there when I went to celebrate getting into a highly selective liberal arts school called Swarthmore. That day, I feel I should mention I got a free hat from Church's Chicken which I still have with me to the day. I still demand the chicken on my birthday, too.
This next place is the Starbucks where I worked through my senior year of high school and 1st semester of college.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x196/adnadedamien/Place1-Starbucks.jpg
It's my second home because I'd been there at all hours of the day, having opened in the summer at 4:30 a.m. and then closed in the winter, getting out as late as 2 in the morning. So I guess the only hour I haven't been there is maybe 3 a.m. Still, how many other places besides where you sleep can you say you've been at every hour of the day?
It's my favorite place because I bonded with the environment even though I really detested it at first. Once I got a grip for working there though - and took fair advantage of the employee discounts - I began to understand how and why the environment was so inviting. With the exception of the strange kid with sunglasses that would come in at around 10 P.M. some nights and run away with our tip jar, it wasn't too out of the ordinary. In fact, it was easy to feel connected with everyone who worked there because if you didn't like them, you could still talk to them about switching shifts and chances are, they'd do it. Sometimes they wouldn't show up, and you'd get in trouble, so you'd really have something against them, but they usually forget about those kinds of things and then ask you to make their drinks. Karma?... Well, whatever side of the counter you're on, I'd say yes.
Before I worked at Starbucks, I worked as an assistant computer technician for a small private computer company in Laredo called M1 Networks. I learned a lot about computers, such as how to format hard drives, find viruses, use the force (kidding), and set up land lines and some wireless equipment.
I spoke a lot of Spanish and did a lot of traveling throughout South Texas with this job learning from my boss Julio, his father Julio, and the real boss, Julio (again kidding; the other two were Julio; the real boss was Mr. Solis.) I traveled to many small cities in South Texas such as Zapata, Benavides, and San Ygnacio among others to help set up networks, printers, and computers. I would climb through roofs and walls at construction sites or schools that were open over the summer to help set up wires that needed to be put in new classrooms and/or office buildings. I also learned how to build and take apart certain computers when I didn't travel with them.
So to recap,
I'm from Laredo, Texas.
My secret fact is that I want to travel to Europe as a performer.
I look like Aladdin to some people, hense that nickname.
I'm a recently ex-communicated barista.
I like to express myself through writing, and other random art forms, thinking I'm good at it.
I like Fried Chicken.
And I obviously don't know all there is to know about computers though I've had my fair share with them.
If writing about the class this semester will be as fun as it was writing this blog, then I'm glad I failed.
For the final bit of the record, My e-mail is: agonzal4@trinity.edu
Au revoir.
- Adain
If you're going to ask me which I prefer, I'll tell you to do whatever makes you happy because I'll try to pay attention either way and flat out tell you if I can't or I won't.
I was born and raised in Laredo, Texas. I love to write and express myself through music, stories, poetry and at times art. I also like to think I'm good at said means of expression. Having put that out there, my secret fact is that I want to travel to Europe one day as some kind of performer to perform and travel around a continent I've always wanted to see. Aside from a student run orchestra/groups-of-students-doing-crazy-stuff-with-instruments group called Tuche, I haven't joined any music ensembles or done any plays or displayed any art here at Trinity yet but I feel that soon, the time for all that will come.
Now for places, the Google Earth wasn't being good to me and the links have been getting fixed all afternoon, so I improvised and technically used Google Earth to get these pictures but had to print screen them and get links to the pictures by other means so bare with me. I went through way too much trouble to get two pictures to not put them both here so here are my two favorite places in my hometown. This first link is to a picture of Church's Chicken.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x196/adnadedamien/Place2-ChurchsChicken.jpg
This is my favorite place to get friiiiiied chicken. And yes... There's a difference between fried chicken, and friiiiiied chicken (5 more Is, yes.) To put it briefly, I've had many laughs with my friends here, coming at odd hours cursing them for not being open 24 hours like IHOP. Though I have to say it was probably just me cursing the place because I usually wanted friiiiiied chicken at their awesome price more often than anyone else anyway. And IHOP was too expensive. Why aren't there free refills on anything but water there? Not relevant but it made this Church's Chicken better to me. It also means a lot to me on a personal level. I actually went there when I went to celebrate getting into a highly selective liberal arts school called Swarthmore. That day, I feel I should mention I got a free hat from Church's Chicken which I still have with me to the day. I still demand the chicken on my birthday, too.
This next place is the Starbucks where I worked through my senior year of high school and 1st semester of college.
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x196/adnadedamien/Place1-Starbucks.jpg
It's my second home because I'd been there at all hours of the day, having opened in the summer at 4:30 a.m. and then closed in the winter, getting out as late as 2 in the morning. So I guess the only hour I haven't been there is maybe 3 a.m. Still, how many other places besides where you sleep can you say you've been at every hour of the day?
It's my favorite place because I bonded with the environment even though I really detested it at first. Once I got a grip for working there though - and took fair advantage of the employee discounts - I began to understand how and why the environment was so inviting. With the exception of the strange kid with sunglasses that would come in at around 10 P.M. some nights and run away with our tip jar, it wasn't too out of the ordinary. In fact, it was easy to feel connected with everyone who worked there because if you didn't like them, you could still talk to them about switching shifts and chances are, they'd do it. Sometimes they wouldn't show up, and you'd get in trouble, so you'd really have something against them, but they usually forget about those kinds of things and then ask you to make their drinks. Karma?... Well, whatever side of the counter you're on, I'd say yes.
Before I worked at Starbucks, I worked as an assistant computer technician for a small private computer company in Laredo called M1 Networks. I learned a lot about computers, such as how to format hard drives, find viruses, use the force (kidding), and set up land lines and some wireless equipment.
I spoke a lot of Spanish and did a lot of traveling throughout South Texas with this job learning from my boss Julio, his father Julio, and the real boss, Julio (again kidding; the other two were Julio; the real boss was Mr. Solis.) I traveled to many small cities in South Texas such as Zapata, Benavides, and San Ygnacio among others to help set up networks, printers, and computers. I would climb through roofs and walls at construction sites or schools that were open over the summer to help set up wires that needed to be put in new classrooms and/or office buildings. I also learned how to build and take apart certain computers when I didn't travel with them.
So to recap,
I'm from Laredo, Texas.
My secret fact is that I want to travel to Europe as a performer.
I look like Aladdin to some people, hense that nickname.
I'm a recently ex-communicated barista.
I like to express myself through writing, and other random art forms, thinking I'm good at it.
I like Fried Chicken.
And I obviously don't know all there is to know about computers though I've had my fair share with them.
If writing about the class this semester will be as fun as it was writing this blog, then I'm glad I failed.
For the final bit of the record, My e-mail is: agonzal4@trinity.edu
Au revoir.
- Adain
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