Found a trio of caches today with the folks. My Wife says we should only count it as two and a half though, since one of them is a cache which thwarted us back when we looked for it in January. It was a lot easier to find without the hip-deep snow…
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Ok, we’re up North, the wireless network is set up, and I’ve recovered from the drive.
Of course, it took a four hour nap to do that… And if you’re good at math and Michigan geography you’ve figured out that we got here remarkably early. We actually rolled in to town at around ten AM.
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Do you want to know, in a nutshell, the latest thing that bothers me about PowerPoint? I hate how they define the layout of your master slides. Sure you can modify title and text slides, but if you want to change the default layout of graphic slides, you just can’t do it. I spent far too much time yesterday and this morning trying to convince PowerPoint that what I really wanted was a layout with a title at the top of the slide with a picture centered below it and a caption at the bottom. That was fairly easy. If you then hit the ‘layout’ button for ‘picture with title and text’ it shuffles things around so that you’ve got a two column layout with the caption as a bulleted list next to the photo. This is wrong.
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Once again I’m falling into the self editing trap. I write a couple of lines, pause to think too much about what I want to write next, and then wind up canning the whole thing. Or I’ll start something and put it in draft mode and then revise it until I give up…
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Saw the most recent Star Wars movie on Saturday. Last night we got talking about it with folks at my sister’s game. More specifically, we got talking about how to talk about a movie without giving away too much to people who haven’t seen it yet…
On the other hand, there are some obvious “safe” spoilers:
Anakin turns to the dark side!
Padme has twins!
Obi-Wan, Yoda, C3P0 and R2D2 all survive at the end of the film!
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I found out last night that an old friend of mine died. The memorial service is tonight, but it’s up North and there’s no way I can get to it. Some of his other local friends who are in the same situation are going to be getting together for some reminiscing. I’ll be doing an iChat session so that the Man in Japan can sort of be there too.
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I’d like to take this opportunity to let the folks who make the “Plung-R” drain cleaning device know that their product really sucks.
It also blows.
And it got the water flowing through the drains in the Condo’s bathroom sink.
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What better way to mourn the printer than to see what kind of office supply I am?
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…we knew ye well.
After using enough paper to cover two football fields and enough ink to put an inch deep puddle in a cast iron bathtub, the big poster printer at work has kicked up heels and gone to join the choir invisible.
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