Asahikawa American English Conversation School
for November 2009
NOTE: The OBJECTIVE of this BLOG is to help my students with their study of English.
AND
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2009 November 24 Tuesday thru November 30 Monday.
There's
a New Kid in Town.
After about 6 years of using this SONY VAIO laptop PC model type F VGN-FS70B, I decided it was time to upgrade my hardware and get the newest and most powerful SONY VAIO available, as of late October.
Since late August of this year, I have been putting together an eLearning website using Macromedia Captivate and Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. The software is wonderful, but with bigger file sizes coming out of Captivate, the time it takes to create, save to disk and upload to the internet was very slow with my notebook PC.
Therefore, I got a real hotrod of a desktop PC, in order to kick things into high gear. Getting into SPECS of the machine itself which is model number VPCLAFJ; it has 12GB of main memory, a hard disk of 2TB, 2GB of memory for working with videos, a 2.83GHz Intel Core2 Duo CPU, OS is Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, Blue Ray disc drive, Bluetooth wireless keyboard and mouse. The display is a huge 24 inch Full HD 1080.
In other words, it does everything very quickly, making my workflow much smoother.
Also, I will be upgrading some software, hopefully the next upgrade of the Adobe eLearning Suite will come out early next year. Until then, I will continue to use Captivate 1, and Macromedia Studio MX 2004. It gets the job done, for now.
2009 November 9 Monday thru November 23 Monday.
These
past two weeks have been really busy for me, and the weather has been everything
from snow storms to warm and sunny days with almost no snow on the ground.
November is a confused month.
It is a non-season, between autumn and winter. It's not autumn because all of the leaves have already fallen, and it's not winter because there is no constant snow cover on the ground.
Monday November 23 was a National Holiday in Japan called Labor Thanks Giving Day 勤労感謝の日. I used the entire day to finish up Lesson 9 about The Earth for my new eLearning website.
I also spent some time learning how to draw ANIME characters using Adobe Fireworks. I will be putting some ANIME characters on my eLearning website early next year, for use in the lessons that I will be making for young children, and other true beginners.
Also, later on in the coming year, there will be some conversation based lessons on the website along with some lessons to help people who are studying for the TOEIC examination.
Stay tuned. More to come soon. Including the big snows.
2009 November 1 Sunday thru November 8 Sunday.
I
woke up on Sunday morning November 1, to discover a big dump of snow on the
ground. Oooops! I was planning to change to my winter tires on
Wednesday, November 4. I won't be doing any driving until this first snowfall inside the city, melts. And of course it did, starting the very
next day.
In fact, by Sunday November 8, it was about 20 degrees Celsius, and there was almost no snow left, anywhere in the city. Except for those shady spots in the gardens. As you can see from the photo in today's blog, the few autumn leaves that remain on the branches, are showing signs of frost bite and not looking as beautiful as they did, just one short week ago.
With such warm weather on Sunday, November 8, a lot of people, including myself, were out walking around by the river banks of the Chubetsu River between Twin Harps Bridge and the irrigation dam just upstream from there.
I managed to take a few interesting photographs today, which I uploaded to my FLICKR account. You can see those photos by clicking here.
Today may have been the very last day of warm weather for many months to come. More snow will be on the way soon. Much more!
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