Just moved from South Africa to start a new life in the Palm Springs, CA area! (how often do you get guys like that on this forum?)

Fantastic art, Magenta! Did you do that yourself? If you're into the graphical arts, I'm into the musical arts. I write piano solos with Christian, humorous and romantic lyrics. I can also read and play notated sheet music, not just chords.

You're awesome, dude. Just saw your massive list of skills, you can mix and write lyrics and you use LMMS and do all that...
MeanHWILE, I am sitting here with my little bowl of Fruit Loop studio and can't mix or master to save my life... lol
Hope you enjoy your stay.

Wow, that's incredible! What graphics software do you use for this? Adobe? I'm quite au fait when it comes to learning Windows 10 software in general, and enjoy doing software support. I've used Paint on Windows myself, and can resize, rotate and insert text etc.

Thank you so much for your condolences for my late wife, whom I lost to suicide.

I have a Sound Cloud account if you want to hear my music at all?

Good morning, Roy, I would love to hear some of your music! Perhaps you could create a new thread for it in the music forum, posting there as SoulWeaver (a woman ) suggested?

I have used Paint in the past, but find it very limited, and have not opened it for so long I cannot even say LOL. I used to design web pages on a gaming site my daughter signed me up to shortly after I first got a home computer twenty years ago. Starting with an editable template that I could customize with my own color preferences and content, I did play with images in Paint back then (we're talking more than fifteen years ago); I remember working on one image adding one pixel at a time When I became a member here close to five years ago, I would find simple images and add borders and text to them, as you have done also I was using Pixlr by then, which was a free online editing program much like Photoshop, which is what I use now. My daughter got Photoshop CC 2015 for me when Pixlr went offline for a time, and then returned after dumbing down the program so much it became useless to me.

It is kind of funny in a way because in some ways it seems so random in how it all came about, and yet I can see at the same time that all things work together for the good just as God's Word says. My previous laptop lost reliable internet connection after falling off my desk at work a couple of times, and I had gone looking for fonts, not knowing they were still on my computer, and just needed re-installing, after doing a number of factory resets. It was while I was looking for fonts, that I started seeing other things, simple images and individual pieces that could be used in the construction of my own designs... as I did not want to just add borders and text to found images any more, but make my own. Here is a sample of my earlier work here:

Yeah, I used to make everything purple

You seem very high functioning for someone "on the spectrum." I am somewhat OCD, not in the washing hands kind of way, but in a dogged persistence that works well with my creative drive and transcendence/escape from self I find while immersed in the creative process

Not working on music projects right now, I was joking, but seriously kind of you to offer help. I will just add that it's a great decision that you want to get yourself in order and heal properly before looking for another relationship. That's the right course of action bro. Looking forward to seeing you post in the Christian music subforum...

Hi SoulWeaver!

I've just put a fresh post on the music forum with a link to my Sound Cloud music archive. It's awaiting approval from admin so hop on over there when you think it's been approved. Enjoy! There are lyrics too.

Hi Magenta!

Thank you ever so much for your lovely reply. I'll reply to your question at the bottom of your latest e-mail and comment on your graphical projects as well. Sorry if this sounds rather gushy, but I'm so grateful for friends like you and some others I met on this website. A true answer to prayer from God! And yes, I am very high-functioning on the autistic spectrum. I do have high-functioning autism, which used to be called Asperger's Syndrome.

I fully understand how limiting Paint must be. It's really just a basic little “thingy-thingy” for odds and sods. Photoshop is much more advanced, and I'm not surprised at the beautiful art you're able to create with it. Do you have a graphics tablet? If not, that would be an excellent investment! One pixel at a time??!! Wow, wish I had YOUR patience haha!

It sounds like you needed my tech support a number of times with laptops falling off desks and losing a reliable Internet connection. Was it a wireless connection or a network cable plugged into the laptop? In my PC Technician 'geek' language, that cable would terminate in an RJ-45 plug on your laptop side. If it was a wired connection, then either the cable/plug/RJ-45 socket on your laptop is severed and you need to find somebody who's handy with a soldering iron and/or fixing electronics to do the necessary repairs to the damaged hardware. If it was wireless, and lost reliable connection, then I'd say it's more serious and there's internal damage to the laptop. Is that laptop still working? I doubt it, but you say you don't have it anymore.

Finally, this e-mail wouldn't be complete without me commenting on something you said in your 'Good morning' paragraph. I will post some of my music shortly in a new thread on the music forum. Assuming you know a thing or two about high-functioning autism (one would be reading real deep into things that I hear or read and picking up signals – wrong signals at that – thinking somebody is saying something to me, while in actual fact they're saying something else. I'm unable to pick up 'hidden meanings'.) The moment you said SoulWeaver was a women in brackets, and then put a winking face there as well, got my mind and adrenalin running at 5000 mph! LOL. I started to think things like “Oh, is Magenta hinting at the fact that SoulWeaver is single and available to date? I did tell Magenta that I'd like to meet somebody who'll be my second wife, so maybe that's why she told me SoulWeaver is a woman and put a winking face next to that?”

Yip, I can get pretty analytical and read into things, especially when I think there's a possibility of pursuing marriage with somebody! So, I'm still trying to figure out why you put that winking face there, assuming that you're hinting that I must keep up communications with SoulWeaver to see where our friendship goes. Of course, I'm also asking questions about SoulWeaver (which I'm too afraid to ask at this point) like does she live close enough to me, is she too old or too young for me or just the right age (I'm 44), do we have enough things in common to make a go of this etc etc.? E-mailing her, it does sound like she has a touch of music in her and can't do sound mixing to save her life so there's common ground there. God has revealed that I have issues with insecurity and looking to the women in this world for happiness, so I'm busy with a Youversion Bible reading plan to address my insecurity, and look to God as my first source of happiness, with a wife second. Insecurity can really make the ladies run away and I think that's why I've been through so many break-ups. But now I have friends like SoulWeaver and yourself, and things are going to be different from now on!

God Bless, I'll look forward to your next e-mail! Check the music forum tonight; I might have some songs posted there. I'm considering writing a song dedicated to this website and its registered members soon! I have what I think is an exciting prospect for you, but I think I'll leave it for when I reply to your next e-mail! I want to leave you in suspense !!!

Take a look at the piano sheet music I've attached. It's a computer game soundtrack from the game "Myth" on the Commodore 64 computer, composed by Jeroen Tel of Maniacs Of Noise in Helmond, The Netherlands and I listen to his music a lot. You seem to be a perfectionist in your art, and I was a near-perfectionist getting every note perfect in pitch and duration with notating this tune. I spent A SOLID 13 hours on it, getting to sleep at 3 am the next morning! How's that for dedication and perfection? I'll post the actual MP3 on CC's music thread; it was about 95% accurate to the original tune. It's encouraged and motivated me to pursue music as a career. I hope I can get paid to do this kind of thing; sound mixing at the very least.

Your brother-in-Christ, Roy.

Hello Roy, by now I believe you have realized that you have found a gold mine here at Christian Chat: there are many talented people here like Magenta. And we in turn can learn from your talents and experiences.

Roy, we are so glad to have you with us and may God bless you richly. Welcome!