Today’s the day! After 12 years of long hair, Michael has an appointment today for a hair cut.
He’s kept a short ponytail for the last several years, so he doesn’t have enough hair to donate (he donated ponytails to Locks of Love twice in the past) but he says he’s tired of it and getting it cut short.
This’ll be very strange, because I met him when he was growing his hair out. And once it’s short, I’m pretty sure he’ll never grow it out again–at least not as long as he’s expected to deal with the public on a regular basis,
I’ll try to remember to post pictures, post haircut.
Move along home! Shap Three!
I’d be hard pressed to tell you why I enjoy that so much. Except that I do.
And anytime Michael or I heard the phrase “Move along home” one or both of us holler, “Shap Two!” (or three, or whatever comes to mind at that instant.)
And that was your completely random bit for the day.
Now, move along home.
How on earth is it December already? I feel like I just got used to writing 2006 on my checks and now you’re telling me the year’s almost over?
What have I been doing for the past 11 months?
Philosoraptor is wrong.
Do this!
Push the lever! All the other rats are doing it!
I realized today that the release of Office 2007 is upon us, and that someone had best familiarize themselves with it, because it won’t be long before we start getting questions on it. (And believe me, there will be screaming. A lot of people here are resistant to change. And this is a huge change.)
So I went through the Office 2007 demos on the Microsoft site, and although it’s not quite as horrific as I thought it would be, converting is going to be a problem. Additionally, I wasn’t that impressed with the demos. The focus seemed to upon document presentation. Which is all well and good, except that in practice what we’re going to get is people spending all their time changing to formatting of their documents rather than focusing upon the content.
Seems like the motto of the demos should be: Office 2007 – Making It Even Easier to Shine Shit.
Sorry, but I simply don’t care about applying themes to Word documents and Excel worksheets. What I care about it how easy it is to work with text and numbers, and how useful the spell checker is.
Now this doesn’t mean that Microsoft hasn’t improved the things that are important. I’m just saying that the demos focused upon things that aren’t important, while making me dig through the site to discover information I needed, like whether we can still use keyboard commands (you can use them, but in the demos the commands are no longer listed anywhere) and whether you can concurrently run Office 2003 and 2007 (the answer appears to be yes, although there may be issues.)
So, we’ll see what happens when I actually get my hands on a copy of Office 2007. I don’t think I’ll hate it, but I can tell you right now I don’t think I’ll care for the amount of window space the ribbon takes up–especially while I’m using a laptop.
Well, actually last week’s word. But I was busy.
steganography \steg-uh-NAH-gruh-fee\ noun
: the art or practice of concealing a message, image, or file within another message, image, or file
This is a lovely word. I learned it reading Simon Singh’s The Code Book.
So, the basement is as done is it’s going to get. Other than cleaning (yetch) and straightening, we’re done until spring (or whenever we have another significant chunk of spare time.) Grandmom is getting settled in, and we’re getting into a routine (although Thanksgiving break threw that off).
But being able to sit down and catch my breath allowed me to realize that I am so far behind in e-mails and letters, I feel like I should steal a page from S, and request that people contact me telepathically, as it would be faster than waiting for me to write.
I owe so many people e-mail that just the idea of trying to get caught up is a bit overwhelming. Especially considering the fact that I now have Christmas cards to write and send out.
So how about this? If I owe you an e-mail and you happen to read this post, what say you pretend that I wrote you, and you can respond to the things that you imagined I wrote to you. Feel free to make up as much detail as you please. Then I can reply to your “reply” and we’ll be all caught up. Won’t that be nice?
Happy Thanksgiving!
This year, I’m thankful for my family (and their willingness to assist us in home improvement projects)
That my grandmother agreed to move in with us
Pie with whipped cream
Books
But most of all I’m thankful for Michael.
I thought my day off was supposed to be, you know, a day off.
Did:
Open new grandmotherly checking account
Get grandmotherly handicapped parking permit
Visit Social Security Administration for address change etc
Get stamps from post office
Done:
1 apple pie
1 sweet potato pie
1 pumpkin pie (overdone)
2 batches of bourbon balls (For Christmas. The need to stew in their own juices.)
To Do Tomorrow:
Everything else for Thanksgiving dinner
To Do Now:
Shower
Sleep
dolorous \DOH-luh-rus\ adjective
: causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief
(My brother sent me this several days ago, but I forgot about it.)
Pat White is unimpressed by your growling
I have to say that even listening to the game over the radio, the “growling” got annoying really quickly. Amanda says it was far worse in the stadium.
But of course, that’s about all we’d expect of Pitt.
:)
Today, November 21, 2006, your RealAge is 31.6!
What amused me was, “But you could be younger — in as few as 90 days.”
How far back, precisely, am I supposed to regress. Because let me tell you, I do NOT want to be a teenager again, for any amount of money.
http://www.realage.com
Note shipping prices before placing order, moron.
Paying more in shipping than the cost of the item (unless said item is a one or two dollar used book) is stupid.
