Kenja's Newsletter & Updates

Volume 2/ Edition 16

October 08, 2000

Hello again everybody

Welcome to another edition of Kenja's Newsletter & Updates.

Fall season has definitely started, and temperatures are way down... even here in Texas. The next few issues of the newsletter will hopefully prepare you for the upcoming holiday season or other wise known as the 'season for giving'. To give you a nice head start on the giving part, I will start listing various charity sites at this point of the newsletter. So then here is the first one: Make A Wish Foundations for terminally ill children.

Site Related News:

I finally had some time to make and add 3 new desktop themes to the African section. All themes come with wallpaper for 800x600 screen settings, 5 icons, set of cursors, Logo SYS files (Start-up, Wait and Shutdown screens) and 18 wave sound files. The names for these themes are as follows:

Blue Horn (wallpaper in part based on a painting by Kadir Nelson ©, wave sound files based in part on music by Duke Ellington)
Jungle Eyes (wallpaper in part based on painting by Gamboa ©, African music with Jungle sounds)
Majestic Felines (wallpaper based in part on a painting by Karl Bang ©, African music with Jungle sounds)

* NOTE* I use Zip Magic to compress Stationery and/or Desktop Theme files into EXE format. If you ever get a password prompt during installation... ignore it and proceed. They are not password protected! For more installation help visit either the Stationery Help, Theme Help, the Hotbar Skin Tutorial, or the WinAmp Skin sections.

Halloween 2000 Ghost Story and Recipe Contest:

Only two more weeks left to enter the Halloween Contest. Read about the Rules & Prizes at the web based issue Edition 2 Volume 15 and then send me your entries! Winners will be announced in the October 23, 2000 newsletter issue and each winning entry will get a listing on the Winners page in the Haunted House.

The Gifts:

The Gifts for this issue are a Stationery with scrolling background, & midi, and matching Wallpaper (800x600 screen settings) for non stationery users. Graphic for stationery gift and Wallpaper gift are my original creations from scratch with PSP 7 (various tubes and filters for effects).

Hope you enjoy the Gifts!

Please make note that the gifts are only for actual subscribers to this newsletter and not for visitors to the archive copies based on the net. Gifts are available for a limited time with each issue, roughly about 7 days and will then be removed... so get 'em while you can!

*NOTE* At the time of publication, all URL listed in this newsletter are working. Please keep in mind that if a URL does not work, it may be due to an increase in traffic or other temporary causes I have no control over. Try them again at a later time.

Submitted by Readers:

Aquatica (SW) is an awesome screensaver that turns your desktop into a virtual aquarium complete with 3-D animated Tropical fish on colorful backgrounds (both can be changed and/or added to). A good assortment of additional fish and backgrounds are available in their monthly updated download library. Aquatica also includes a feature that lets you display on screen messages when the screensaver is active. I love using this screensaver and was totally blown away with the realistic look and movements of the fish... especially the diver (everything moved just as it would in real life). Very impressive and worth getting! *smile*

Patsy submitted a site called Stationery Sisters, which offers Outlook Express 5.x and Outlook Stationery made by a group of stationery designers. Each designer has a link there to their own site and the Stationery (from what I have seen, it's top notch quality) offered covers a wide variety of categories ranging from feminine, children, holidays to native, animals and much more... too much to list here. *smile*

Scott submitted a site called National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. This site is chock full of great information for car owners, those looking to buy a car or people just interested in finding out about the latest safety issues on cars (dealer may fix these for you in cases of re-call). This site is truly a great find... thanks Scott. *smile*

PSP (Paintshop Pro) Tutorials:

Jasc offers one of the most popular and easiest to use graphics program called Paintshop Pro. As I am an avid PSP user myself, I would like to introduce you to various great sites that offer tutorials designed to accommodate most versions of PSP and most commonly used Filters like Blade Pro, KPT (Kai Power Tools) 5 & KPT 6, Alien Skin Eyecandy & Xenofex:

Simply Pixelating currently offers 52 step-by-step picture Tutorials. These range from, but are not limited to making Balloons, Note Cards or more complex projects like how to make your own lighthouses from scratch. Links to special pre-sets and/or filters are included as well.
Lori's Web Graphics How To is another great source for tutorials for all versions of PSP. Her site includes currently 15 tutorials that are geared to new users of PSP. These include the following categories: Picture Tubes, Photo Editing, Masks, Buttons & Icons, User Defined Filters, Vectors, Picture Frames and Illumination Effects.
Graphic Buds Tutorials has an awesome variety of tutorials (if they don't have it, then they will have a link to other sites that do) for anything from simple projects like glowing text to far more advanced projects like making a room with furniture. Most tutorials require a working knowledge of PSP, and all projects are worked from scratch. Prepare to spend a lot of time here. *smile*
PSPtuts offers a great variety of tutorial for all versions of PSP, including on how to make a fuzzy bunny from scratch (real cute *smile*). Other goodies at this site also include textures, masks, tubes, pre-sets for Blade Pro and much more.

My list of links is much longer, but I will list a few more PSP tutorial sites in the next newsletter.

On the Lighter Side of Life -:)

The following set of rules (joke) was submitted by Iola. I can just imagine that a lot of Dad's are very sympathetic to these rules. *smile*: Ten Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter
Rule One:
If you pull into my driveway and honk you'd better be delivering a package, because you're sure not picking anything up.

Rule Two:
You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter's body, I will remove them.

Rule Three:
I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don't take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose his compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes too big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do not, in fact, come off during the course of your date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

Rule Four:
I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a "barrier method" of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you.

Rule Five:
It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk about sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my daughter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is "early."

Rule Six:
I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Seven:
As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process that can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don't you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

Rule Eight:
The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there are no parents, policemen, or nuns within eyesight. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to induce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chain saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

Rule Nine:
Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.

Rule Ten:
Be afraid. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveway you should exit your car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car - there is no need for you to come inside. The camouflaged face at the window is mine

Author: Unknown

The Finishing Touches:

Hope you enjoyed this edition of the newsletter, and found lots of useful information. The next newsletter will be published on or around the end of the first week in September, which also starts the regular Schedule again. You may share this newsletter with your friends and family or visit the website for the current & all previous Issues: Kenja's Newsletter & Updates

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Next Issue due on or about October 23rd, 2000

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