Change of Color

Recently I have been discussing with my wife the possibility of her changing her hair color. Admittedly I am a newb at marriage and, of course, I did not think that this subject was taboo. Come to find out after discussing it with my family at Sunday dinner when Andrea was at work, this topic is akin to playing with fire. Having only been married about a month and a half, perhaps it is a little too early to discuss changing for each.

But what is done is done. Surely there is no harm in trying something fresh, something new and exciting, even at this early stage in our marriage. As part of the agreement that she would change her hair, I would try and find a look on her that I liked. My first impression was the punker-rock black lowlights with a-line cut. However, having dealt with her blonde hair her entire wife, Andy helped me see the light that many girls with those types of hair cuts are not natural blondes, making her hair untenable for such a hair-do. 

Undeterred by her lack of faith in my vision, I decided to set out and show Andrea how her hair would look with certain colors attached. What follows is my exploration into some new hair colors for my wife, with photos courtesy of my sister-in-laws photography business Frame a Smile. I couldn't get the lowlights to work very well (which indicates that it probably is not a good look on a natural blonde, to my chagrin :( ... oh well), but I was able to make these beauties. If you want, let me know which one you like the most.

Original:

The original is still the best in my opinion.

Alterations:

Highlights Added

Red Hair with Highlights

Red Hair without Highlights

Original 2:

Yeah, original is definitely best.

Alterations:

Brown hair

Red Hair

Read Hair with Highlights

Red Highlights. Probably my second favorite.

Any way you look at it, my wife is gorgeous. I enjoyed making these more than any other picture just so I could look at her more. What a great thing photoshop is. Perhaps I will just content myself with these little images as being enough change for now:)

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Microsoft Office Automation - Introduction

Nobody likes to do repetitive tasks, especially when time is lost as a clunky html page is required to load between each step. Wouldn’t it be great to automate some of the things you do every day without ever having to see the webpage you are trying to reach? This is the power of automation – reducing the time it takes to perform repetitive tasks by letting a computer (a machine that is designed around repetition) to do it for you.

The problem many face when attempting to automate is the barrier of code and logic. It is not uncommon to hear that one must place 10,000 hours into a coding language before they are capable of writing their own automation scripts. Many wish that there was a simple step-by-step tutorial on how to automate their particular tasks that didn’t require this long and arduous learning curve. The problem is that many of the instructions or forums are written for people who have coding experience, or who have at least a basic understanding of the language.

This is where my blog posts will come in. Over the course of the next several posts I will outline how to automate the Microsoft Office Suite using Visual Basic for Applications. As these articles are written, you can check back here and click on any one to get a further in-depth explanation as to how this can be done. Each post will be written in an attempt to explain concepts to the uninformed, and to make it as easy as possible so that even non-technical users will be able to create their own automation suite.

The majority of this code will be taken from my project to automate purchase tracking during my internship at Adobe. The entire project will be uploaded to this page (after much editing to remove any Adobe information has been completed). Feel free to download it and run it for yourself.

Initially these posts will be a little more technically minded simply because I want to get out the harder concepts before I forget what I have done and my justification behind those actions. After this is complete, I intend to add more explanation for non-techies, and then to write a few posts explaining some common concepts used in this macro.

**A quick note on this process – it is not professional grade coding, and it was never intended to be so. Some other programmer may be able to write something that is more stable, more reusable, and more robust than this. These blog posts are intended to show you what works. If you have questions about how to find information on the web concerning automation, read my other post about searching for useful answers on the web.