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littlemspickles, I have two lovely grandsons and another arrives next month

I also have two wonderful granddaughters who entertain me no end, too. I love being an Abuelita.

Thanks for stopping by to read and to comment.

posted by benzinha on February 10, 2005 at 5:04 AM | link to this | reply

sounds like you have a wonderful grandson!

posted by littlemspickles on February 10, 2005 at 4:11 AM | link to this | reply

Benzinha

When my son arrived my mother could not believe what it added to her life and how being a grandmother made her feel. I refer to your advice in my post today. BTW, If you have a moment to scroll down to my "liberal" post, I would love to hear you thoughts

posted by beachbelle on January 24, 2005 at 8:32 PM | link to this | reply

Logitech MarbleMouse TrackBall, writing this down. I have to pull my

mouse apart, open it up and clean its innards about every two months....just to keep it rolling. It's six years old. Good idea, it is a bit spikey in its movements. Graphics smooth, yeah.....

posted by benzinha on January 24, 2005 at 8:26 PM | link to this | reply

Next thingee...trackball.

I bought a Logitec Marblemouse trackball and found that it gives you much more control for graphics etc than a regular mouse, doesn't get a dirty as soon (if you don't spill stuff into it and you wash your hands once in a while), and uses less wrist movement. Mine cost about $20 two years ago at Staples and I bought two more (one for work, one,for my wife who has carpal tunnel syndrome). I use mine for games too, but that can give you motionsickness.

posted by majroj on January 24, 2005 at 7:37 PM | link to this | reply

the link opened up OUTLOOK Express 6 and has the New Message

addressed to my randomly selected bad word for 'computer' as an email to be sent. OOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo Maybe it's a sign from the gods and I should write and send something. But, what if it's the Devil?? Scary !!!

posted by benzinha on January 23, 2005 at 4:30 PM | link to this | reply

maj, I showed PAINT to my two other grandchildren today and they can't

wait to get home and play with their computer. They are seven and four years old, or is it five?? Sigh.....Anyway, they made neat pictures and we saved them on my computer. I even liked the goofy Birthday picture mess that I made as an example and saved it, too.

I do have something like that Photoeditor, because I took a photo once, took it down to its smallest outline components and made it into my son's latest barber shop business card......shall look for it again. I want it all, all, all.....like Snoop Dogg raps about. AND, especially, the time to play with these programs!!!

My &$^@#%#^&$^#% COMPUTER ; wow, that magically turned itself into a link!!! Wonder where it goes?

Anyway, I took 260 digifotos of my youngest grandson's birthday party yesterday. Today, while babysitting, I knew that my time was going to be scattered, so I decided to download photos, label them and make a cd. Well, this simple one hour MAX job, on a good day, took my computer five hours to accomplish. Amazing! But, it is done. My gift to my daughter and my grandson and they will burn one for each little friend. Fun!!!\

We could hang out together and just do PAINT on our side by side computers and be perfectly fine.....so alike. I love PAINT. Shall follow your guidelines and see what else I can do.

posted by benzinha on January 23, 2005 at 4:27 PM | link to this | reply

HA! Another victory for "PAINT"

I tell people I use it and they make faces, swear it's too primitive.

I guess. (NOT).

See if you also have a program called "Photoeditor" or some variant. You can really spruce up photos with it, change the size of the picture, and even convert it digitally to resemble a watercolor, pencil sketch, etc.