Red Hood: Week 5, 27 April

I’ve spent most of the past week indoors. Not that I wanted to be shut up when there was glorious sunshine outside, but that newsletter mentioned last week was well overdue. It seemed to take forever. When one item was laid out, I’d need an illustration for the next, and went off down an internet rabbit hole looking for the perfect one. On top of this, because I only use the software infrequently, I occasionally needed find help to refresh my rusty skills. Thankfully, it’s now finished and sent off. Trolley gone wild There seems to have been a software theme to the week, perhaps because so much time has been spent at the computer. A replacement program for a no-longer-supported screen calibration device needed to be found, because the proprietary one ceased to work. Fortunately, in the past I’d tried a free third party alternative which just needed updating. This was more complicated than clicking a button in the app store, as the program needed to be downloaded direct from the…