[Mission 101] I'm at it again

[deana_in_texas]

I finished my previous attempt at mission101 back in August with very little fanfare. I didn't even make a post about it. I learned quite a bit about myself during the experience and decided I would give it another go. Originally I wanted to start on December 1, but I had some trouble finishing up my list. I spent a lot of time on it today and I'm pretty

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[deana_in_texas]

Thanks for the tip about Photoshop - yes $179 would be a great improvement over the regular price. I know we do have some software over there, I'll have to see what kind of discounts they offer me. I hadn't even heard of Elements but I'll have to check it out.

I'm not looking to make huge changes to photographs, like I don't need to be able to put my cat on my dog's head or something. I just want to be able to improve the quality of the images I've taken, which I hear isn't too difficult anyway.

The speed math book is pretty old - I found it at a thrift store a few years ago. But they still sell it on Amazon!
http://www.amazon.com/How-Calculate-Quickly-Course-Arithmetic/dp/048620295X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1294037336&sr=8-1

It starts out with adding, grouping things into 10s, or less than 10, for some exercises they have the numbers from 1-100 all jumbled in a random order and you just have to go through the list and "add 4 to all the numbers", so that's just working on the basic addition memorization (though it goes up to "add 25 to all the numbers", I believe). Sometimes it asks you to add up, sometimes down, sometimes two columns at a time. I really did notice a vast improvement in my adding speed doing this, and it's come in handy on occasion!

Then subtraction, and it starts out with left to right subtraction, which is interesting. Flipping through the book there are a lot of money exercises near the back, too, so as an accountant it might be good if you do things by hand.

[msmasucc]

I have Photoshop if you decide that an "illegal" copy is okay. ;)