It’s been more than ten years since I first got online. Within a few months of getting on the internet, I was buying books and teaching myself how to create websites. No one who saw them would think they were professionally designed, but they were nice, they suited the purpose, and I felt a sense of accomplishment with them.

Today, I let a designer do my sites. (Have I mentioned how much I like her?) Anyway, I asked her to give me a bid on a couple of images. Instead of doing so, she pointed me to a free program that would do what I needed. I’m always a bit wary of new software until I get the hang of it. So I figured I would play around with the program for a while until I figured things out.

You can imagine how surprised I was when it took less than five minutes to do what I wanted with the picture.

Riding high on my success, I decided to look for software that would make screenshots from videos. That’s how I got this screenshot, which I posted last week.

So, I’ve got a couple of programs that will allow me to do a few things myself.

Now if I could just DIY with car repairs . . .