26th August, 2020
Right … I’m actually up early, today: I’ve officially Jude sitting.
AND tinkered with some of the new filters in iMovie.
You may have noticed that: if you’ve watched the video.
The Comic Ink filter on the Jester at the start, looks good.
It’s possibly the best looking bit of the clip!
~≈Å≈~
On other fronts … ?
Argh!
My funding request at the Shaw Trust?
Got refused.
It’s a long, complicated, messy story.
On the job front? Their view was that they couldn’t justify the funding: as there was no offer of work involved. Just an initial assessment.
Which is annoying, but there you go.
However? They also refused a laptop for a for the European Computer Driving License course.
The ECDL people were thinking of getting me into the classroom for the course: supplemented by practise/homework sessions at the library.
They could just about wangle that: for one new learner. Usually, even with the loosened Covid restrictions in place, they wouldn’t.
Except?
One of the courses I applied for was the ECDL’s Microsoft Access course: that would’ve have taught me how to use the database section of the suite.
The one part of the MS Office suite NOT available at any library?
Microsoft Access.
As there’s no Mac version available? Installing Access on my machine would have meant installing Windows* onto an external drive connected to my machine, via Boot Camp.
Something I don’t have the money or confidence for.
Shaw’s best offer? Was, effectively, to offer to go halves with me, once I get a part time job.
I’ve cancelled the course.
Understandably, I’m not happy.
I’m going to be having a long chat with my Job Centre manager, the next time I talk to him.
~≈Å≈~
