I used to have this manager who would say "Are you Sarah Connor" every. single. time. he called me
My paid LJ ran out, but Russia is still trying to genocide Ukraine, yada yada yada, they gave me another year for free.
I got an email late Monday night from Airbnb saying they were deleting my account because my "profile contains false information such as an email address or profile photo". The tone was unnervingly cheery, very reminiscent of Douglas Adams. Hello, the algorithm has randomly selected your life to blow up, we regret any inconvenience!
*blink* My profile photo is about a decade old, but it's me, and nothing in my profile is "false". I mean I just used Airbnb a month ago to book my trip to Poverty Point.
Upon further inspection, I realized the email began "Hi Connor", so clearly this was another case of someone with plump Polish sausages taped to their fingers entering an email address wrong. I had to actually call, like on the phone, Airbnb to straighten it out. (I may be Gen X, but I have the stereotyped Millennial hatred of talking on the phone with people. Probably because my mother was on the phone seemingly every waking moment of my life from birth until I was at least 20.)
I finished Sosha Davis' Galaxy Watercolor, although there were a few exercises I skipped.
If there's one thing this book helped me improve, it's painting clouds. I mean you can see the real-time education in the 2nd photo, I still don't quite "get it" in the large top-middle box, but in the small bottom-right (but still in the top half of the page) box it clicked and those clouds look much better.
Next book I'm going to use is Mako's No-Fail Watercolor. She was the very first painter I started following on YouTube when I got interested in watercolor, so I don't know why I didn't start with her book.
I should probably get a cross stitch project lined up for the holidays, though. When all the family is going to be here, I'll want to be downstairs with them, and I won't have room for watercolors if my sister is going to take up the entire living room table with a jigsaw puzzle, which seems likely as it's something she does every Christmas. She had a bunch on her Christmas list, and I know Mom is getting her a couple, and I think Lori is, too. (I know Mom is, because after 2 or 3 Christmases of her buying doubles of stuff or, as happened with me last year, forgetting to buy some presents entirely, I took over her gift purchases. Except for my gift, which Jamie will buy.)
I got an email late Monday night from Airbnb saying they were deleting my account because my "profile contains false information such as an email address or profile photo". The tone was unnervingly cheery, very reminiscent of Douglas Adams. Hello, the algorithm has randomly selected your life to blow up, we regret any inconvenience!
*blink* My profile photo is about a decade old, but it's me, and nothing in my profile is "false". I mean I just used Airbnb a month ago to book my trip to Poverty Point.
Upon further inspection, I realized the email began "Hi Connor", so clearly this was another case of someone with plump Polish sausages taped to their fingers entering an email address wrong. I had to actually call, like on the phone, Airbnb to straighten it out. (I may be Gen X, but I have the stereotyped Millennial hatred of talking on the phone with people. Probably because my mother was on the phone seemingly every waking moment of my life from birth until I was at least 20.)
I finished Sosha Davis' Galaxy Watercolor, although there were a few exercises I skipped.
If there's one thing this book helped me improve, it's painting clouds. I mean you can see the real-time education in the 2nd photo, I still don't quite "get it" in the large top-middle box, but in the small bottom-right (but still in the top half of the page) box it clicked and those clouds look much better.
Next book I'm going to use is Mako's No-Fail Watercolor. She was the very first painter I started following on YouTube when I got interested in watercolor, so I don't know why I didn't start with her book.
I should probably get a cross stitch project lined up for the holidays, though. When all the family is going to be here, I'll want to be downstairs with them, and I won't have room for watercolors if my sister is going to take up the entire living room table with a jigsaw puzzle, which seems likely as it's something she does every Christmas. She had a bunch on her Christmas list, and I know Mom is getting her a couple, and I think Lori is, too. (I know Mom is, because after 2 or 3 Christmases of her buying doubles of stuff or, as happened with me last year, forgetting to buy some presents entirely, I took over her gift purchases. Except for my gift, which Jamie will buy.)