2-16-11

Today was a single task day, but it was not the usual tedious paperwork. Rich had a farmer he was nominating as a small "socially disadvantaged" farmer basically meaning he had a small acreage and was diverse. The farmer only spoke spanish and had previously relied on his son as a translator. My job today was to create a powerpoint showing why this man was up for this award. Rich gave this project to me with all the information already prepared and a template for what the State wanted this powerpoint to look like. Pretty much it was already done. I sat down and began to look at the template and realized, it was kinda awful. I asked Rich if I could deviate and he said he thought it was terrible too and to go for it. Now, I've been doing powerpoints since we got computers at my elementary school in the 2nd grade. It was either that or Oregon Trail and I had a tendency of getting bit by a rattlesnake and dying so I was always making powerpoints. If you are going to give me free reign and all day as my time limit, I am going to have some fun. I spent half my time playing with the fonts and attempting to create better colors. In the end, Rich said he thought it looked great and he was amazed with how quickly I did it. I didn't want to tell him that most of the time I was trying to figure out whether I liked the Script font or the Kristen font. I also did a slight bit of research about noxious weeds for horses.