LaDonna

Hope this is the correct forum for this question I see people using the same back ground for different pictures or progression of pictures how is this done? When I submit a picture it is no longer in the save draft.

matthew

...after I am finished with my pic, I save it in Save Draft...

...I then reload the draft...

...I open up another window or tab & load my draft there as well...

...I then submit the pic from the 1st window...

...I then go to the draft in the 2nd window, add a piece, undo... Then Save Draft that one...

LaDonna

It s early here in Arizona 1:38A I will try that tomorrow. Thank you. Night all.

solosater

Hi, LaDonna, Soda is the one to ask about that and I think she did explain it in the first couple of posts to this thread then I high jacked it and it hasn't been quite the same since....All this talk about personality types and career choices, I made a mess of it. Sorry about that.

There was something about opening a new window with the same piece complete to that point than doing the save draft in one and continuing it in the other. Really you should go back to the beginning, I think you'll find what your looking for there.

And if not you could always have fun learning about your personality type, I'm enjoying it enormously!

solosater

I'm in Pheonix, and still awake. We saw snow on the mountains up north of town this week, you must be freezing your tail off up there.

I haven't been to Jerome for years, it hasn't slid down the mountain yet? I love that place but it's the only drive that ever makes me car sick so I don't relish the trip. I'll have to plan one anyway, before it's gone for good;-)

solosater

Oh and matthew's typed faster than I, so you got some real instructions. I'm glad as I was feeling all guilty about the high jacking...

Qsilv

Matthew - that's so simple, clear --and kind! THANK you!

anotherronism

Folks...

On Windows XP try this:

Start Menu | All Programs | Accessories | Accessibility | Magnifier

Created for the visually impaired it creates a magnification zone at the top of the screen which shows (2X initially) zoon of the mouse area. Bump it up to 4X and you're cooking with Pam on TD.

My 2cents worth

Qsilv

ooooohhhh! ...and here I was thinking you had a 42" monitor... *twinkly grin*

LaDonna

1) Saved draft
2) Opened two other tabs
3) Loaded in first tab
4) Went to second tab “sorry your draft could not be loaded” is displayed
5) Went to third tab “sorry your draft could not be loaded “ is displayed again
6) HELP

matthew

hmmmm... let me check...

matthew

I have no issues & can't recreate... sorry...

LaDonna

Thanks for trying Matthew

mostblessedone

Soda and Solosater - I enjoyed reading your conversation about thinking/learning styles. You both reminded me in many ways of my son, who is ADHD/OCD. Most of his schooling has been at home, and I finally gave up requiring the traditional repetitious and step-by-step processes. Once he understood a concept, he could not bear to continue rehashing the point. He also had a way of reaching the correct conclusion, even though he could not always explain how, i.e. in math. When he is not interested in something, it is very hard to plod through it, though he has learned to do so when necessary. When a subject grabs his interest, he "dives in", as you were saying. Over the years he has been an expert on rocks, reptiles, Pokemon, and martial arts. Each in turn was dropped cold when he focused on the next one. He mastered electricity, electronics, computers, and physics this way. He really did not learn to write intelligibly until the last year or so when he started doing "modding" online with other people and really wanted to get his ideas across. (Modding has something to do with changing the computer programming of computer games so that the rules, colors, graphics, effects, etc. are different than the original design.) He is 18 now, and planning to get his GED. Our eventual approach to his education was just too untraditional to be able to claim a standard HS diploma. Computer game design looks to be the path for his future career. Unless, of course, he finds a new love before that.

I guess I am really saying all this to make this point: God did not intend for any one to be just like anyone else. Some of us are "differenter" than others, and that's all to the good. Somehow, as we discuss all the ways people are different, it eventually comes back around to how we are all the same. Just different.

anotherronism

Mostblessedone:

You have described my own childhood almost to a tee.

So I offer unrequested thoughts and advice.

I would not change my past or who I am for anything.

But that mindset from my childhood remains. And throughout my life it has manifested in many ways. Ofttimes creative and sometimes successful there remain those times which I look back on with regret.

I am trapped outside a window always looking in.

I am addicted to addiction. This sounds so stupid when I read it back. But that is what it is and has been; addiction to addiction.

There is a hole in my head or in my soul And it MUST be filled.

I have often filled it with some obsession or interest or another.

But I have also filled it with poinson more times than I can count.

The funny thing about these addictions is that they were symptoms - not problems in and of themselves. As you say your kid drops one thing completely when he moves onto another - so have I done with the substance-of-the-week. I get addicted fast but also move on fast but also relapse fast.

I cannot turn my brain off. My life could be summed up as a long monologue with an audience of one: me.

All of this is to say this...

You mentioned ADHD/OCD.

When I was 41 years old I made a snap decision and walked away from an incredibly lucrative career.

I have no serious relationships.

I have trouble making new friends.

I quit my job and decided to become an alcoholic. Can you imagine the rationale that went into THAT one?

I haven't made a mortgage payment in eight months. Haven't paid my electric in six. Steal internet from my neighbor and have no cable tv. Yet I refuse to even look for work.

All of this - all of it not to garner sympathy (that would tick me off, actually) but to alert you to the dark side of ADHD.

I was diagnosed with this recently.

Funny thing about it is this: You've either always had it you'll never have it.

It can create frustration with parents. But it can also create a sense of precosiousness by the child in the pasrents eye.

But that child is going to grow up and if ADHD is present - things are not going to be easy for that kid.

I know people are against the medicating of our children (your children - I don't have any) but as a 43yo man let me tell you this:

If you put corrective lenses on healthy eyes they will cause discomfort. But put them on someone with myopia and they will experience something almost religious in their newfound "sight".

Put amphetamines in a child who doesn't need them and they will get high as a kite.

Put that same drug in someone with over or under speed neurotransmitters and they will experience something very similar to the person given eyeglasses for the 1st time.

My life is still messed up. But ti's a choice with me right now - not a result of the calamities of my lack of focus over time with any one thing.

Three things have changed my life:

First sex.
First time stepping out of an airplane at altitude and...
28 minutes after I took my 1st Adderall.

All of this is just preamble to a simple thing.

If you really believe he has ADHD then do not shun medical science. Get him diagnosed and get him treated. He will thank you for it for the rest of his life.

You will not diminish his spirit or spark or energy or anything at all. You will, instead, enable him to pursue those exact same impules to a meaningfull conclusion instead of simply abandoning them whenever he gains interest in another thing.

This is from my heart and I apologize for the length and any preachiness that might be inferred.

Because doctors overprescribe these medications DOES NOT mean these problems don't exist!

Later,
Ron

matthew

Are you trying to convert me?

solosater

Reply to both anotherronism and mostblessedone,

I agree, if you haven't got him medicated yet do so! My stepfather (45yrs) only just started medication (Adderall) and do you know he cried. His first day on the job with the meds he was like a new man: things got done, in order, and to everyone’s satisfaction, even his own.

He grew up thinking he was just not able to learn (he is the child of 1st generation Polish emigrants) and due to some really terrible teachers and their really whacked way of dealing with troubles kids, he felt stupid. That feeling has never left him.

These days we have such better training in our schools and even as parents we are better educated to look for these problems and to deal with them but still people fall through the cracks.

I was not diagnosed as ADD until I was in my mid twenties. I’ve never been hyperactive and was easy to call lazy instead of being seen as someone who really needed help. The OCD was something I used to joke about until my therapist said not only do I have it but the type I have, associated with the ADD type, is not treatable with meds, I’m hardwired for it. Perhaps Shock Therapy?~) Umm, no!

And as for addiction, did you know that something like the top 14% of people who are terribly intelligent (high IQ) are alcoholics or otherwise addicted? People who are very intelligent and people who find it hard to relate to others are more susceptible to these problems. As a child of an alcoholic father and the sister of a heroin-addicted brother, I can back this up. My father was what some would have called a “Jack of all trades” and here’s the kicker he was also a “Master” of most. He could do, build, design or draw anything when I was growing up. That’s not just my pride speaking, his work is still around in houses and buildings in the area, and in files in my Arts & Crafts department at home. He was a true genius; mind you due to his lifestyle he died at 55 of old age. My brother is similar, he’s very smart about mechanical things, building and design, he’s recently built his own computer from the ground up & he’s a high school dropout who never even took any vocational schooling and still can’t read. You know the whole “driven to drink” thing? I believe it! I’m not saying there’s any excuse to abuse drugs or alcohol, I’m saying when you are so intelligent you can’t have a conversation with most people you meet, it may seem the thing to do, and unfortunately, people with terribly high IQ’s often have no “common” sense at all.

Ron, funny both my father and my brother are Rons too, I know you say it’s a choice and you are not wrong, but you can choose to seek and find help. I hope you do. Also the whole relapsing thing, remember that alcoholism and other addictive disorders are diseases without cures, you will never be cured of it but you can recover. Good luck!

And mostblessedone, please keep an eye on your son, these problems present in males in their teens and early twenties, my brother was 19 years old before he smoked his first cigarette and 21 before his first drink, he’s 34 now and hasn’t been “clean” for more than 6 months at a time since. Please be vigilant.

solosater

And to you matthew, no one is trying to convert you, stop being paranoid!-)

Qsilv

Small addition to these gentle, wise offerings -

"You've either always had it you'll never have it" is, in general, true enough...
BUT -- it's not an all or nothing thing. It's measurable along a continuum...

...and when just high enough to create vision and drive, but not so high that you can't control the expression of it, aspects of it are absolutely a treasure... and you can be a gift to world at large... and especially the people around you.

Ron-- you're already dear.

; >

solosater

Yes and as Mr Monk always "It's a gift and a curse."

This is in re: OCD

I have to agree.