Thanks for the advice! I'll have to discuss it with my hair guy.

You know what's wrong? I was in North Carolina several months ago and visited the Duke campus, where I purchased a Duke notebook. I'm using said notebook for my statistics class. Due to the recent Duke rape scandal, I find that I hide the cover of the notebook. I have a black friend in the class that I'm even more careful of the notebook around. I never intended to make a political statement when purchasing a university trinket while on vacation, damn it! Do others get this crazy about such things or is it just me?

The police non profit people are RUDE. Extremely seriously rude.

Catching up -- I find that they tend to go away politely when I tell them that there's no extra money because of health problems in the family. It was actually true when I started using it soon after Hubs' mother was diagnosed with cancer.

And GC, I tend to get embarrassed over similar things.

Has anyone said anything to you about it? If not, why hide it? In all honesty, as bad as the rape scandal was, I'd be surprised to find anyone outside of NC that cares enough to give you shit about a notebook.

No one has said anything or would probably even notice, much less give me shit about it. Still, I hide it. The craxy voice in my head says, "They'll think you searched it out to support your aryan nation brothers! Why are you using the stupid notebook in the first place? You should have thought all this through in the few seconds it took you to grab the nearest notebook for class, moron!" I need protection from myself!

toddson - talk to your hairguy about lowlights - acc'ding to a hair person , it needs less maintenance -it wouldn't nessicarily cover all the grey - just enough to take off some years.

The craxy voice in my head gets like that, GC.

Argh. There's a post-wedding brunch thing this Sunday, I think, that I have already RSVPed for but I can't find the invitation so I don't actually know where or when it is. Why did they not put this info on the wedding website?

Gah. Job Guy 2 sent me the files--a raw data dump with NO field headers. I can only read it as a text file, even in Excel. So I have no way of manipulating the data I need to do this anaylsis.

I emailed him back asking me to send them to me in a tab or comma delimenante format--I'm praying he knows what this is and how to do it. Else I could be screwed.

Does anyone here know how to get a text file into a .csv format so I can do this job? I've tried saving it as .csv but that doesn't do anything.

Can you export it to a csv file through Excel? Caveat: It's been ages since I had to deal with something like that so I could be totally off base.

Cashmere most spreadsheets have parsing tools somewhere, though I can't figure out where the current version of Excel hides it. Email me a copy (my profile addy is good) and I'll be glad to parse them for you if parsable. If these are fixed field lengths and I can figure out where one field ends and another begins from context then parsing it is easy/peasy.