tablet!

When Emma made the switch from pc to mac, she left her drawing tablet with me. It didn't work so well with paintshop and I was about to throw it away today, feeling wistful about the whole thing, when I remembered I have photoshop now. . . it works! Like a charm! so much better than sketching with a mouse. I still don't have control over the tablet (or photoshop: how do you even get the bucket tool to work with the background color? right-click doesn't do it: shift-click doesn't do it: ctrl-click doesn't do it: alt-click doesn't do it). But it is smooth and produces smooth lines. I can see how this will be very nice to have.

And I didn't spend any moeny to get this new toy. All I did was clean up the corner of the room it was in.

On another front, I was going to use mothballs as a rat repellent on top of the other measures I'm taking, until I read the package (after I had paid for it). Can't use it in open areas.