Here I am blogging from our room at the Courtyard in Niagara Falls, Ontario Canada.
We got upgraded for some reason to a honey moon suite, so I’m in this huge room with a big jacuzzi tub and lots of extras. Annie is getting ready to run a half marathon shortly. I’m getting ready to find something to do for the next few hours.
Pics and blogs to follow.
Business is a little slow, so the boss-man has tasked me with drumming up some business cold calling. I’ve been cold calling since yesterday and three people have agreed; although, we don’t have their money yet so I’m still unsure about the success rate of this venture. I’ve made a ton of phone calls, a few people tell me they will think about it, some people say no, but more often than not, I’ve left voice mails. About 2o minutes ago, I received a call from a gentleman I left a message with earlier this morning. Here’s the just of the call:
Me: “Hello. Can I help you?”
Him: “Is this Annie?”
Me: “Yes.”
Him: “Would you like to by some postcards?”
Me: “What kind of postcards?”
Him: “I don’t know what ever.”
Me: “Do these postcards have pictures or can I have you print whatever I would like on them?”
Him: “Do you like me cold calling you and interrupting your business?”
Me: “I’m sorry; I am just doing my job.”
Him: “I’m sorry, I’m being a jerk but we’ve (him and his company) gotten so many cold calls from this one tax lien I purchased. Me and my employees can’t get anything done.”
Me: “I’m sorry we won’t bother you again.”
The conversation goes on for a bit longer with him apologizing for being rude.
Weird…
As seen in the previous entry, you can override the paintEvent method for a custom widget if you want to control the drawing yourself. By request, here are a few more examples of things you can accomplish when doing those custom drawings:
require 'Qt'
class FunkyWidget < Qt::Widget
def paintEvent(e)
p = Qt::Painter.new(self)
# Vertical blue line
p.setPen( Qt::Pen.new(Qt::blue, 4) )
p.drawLine(width / 5, 0, width / 5, height)
# Reddish arch
p.setPen( Qt::Pen.new( Qt::Color.new( 200, 24, 116) , 2) )
p.drawArc( width / 5 * 2, height / 2, width / 2, height / 4, 1760, 1760 )
# Light yellow ellipse with blue/green dotted border
p.setPen( Qt::Pen.new( Qt::Color.new(100, 200, 150), 1, Qt::DotLine ) )
p.setBrush( Qt::Brush.new( Qt::yellow, Qt::Dense6Pattern ) )
p.drawEllipse( width / 5 * 4, height / 2, width / 5, height / 2)
# Some text
p.drawText( width / 5 * 2, height / 3, “Some Text”)
end
end
app = Qt::Application.new(ARGV)
fw = FunkyWidget.new(nil)
app.setMainWidget(fw)
fw.show
app.exec
See this page for a more complete list of all of the Qt::Painter methods you can call.
Back in high school, I had a job at a collection agency. One day when I was filing I came across the following name: Tuesday Imma Hoar.
When I was but a lowly intern many moons ago, I shared an apartment with three other guys for the summer - two of which worked at the same place I did. At the end of the year, on our last day, we decided it was fitting and proper to perform some kind of prank/antic that would be “funny”.