Sox, do you have ScanSoft?
no, unfortunately, though it looks like it would come in handy. also unfortunate: they're asking me to do this because "you do the computer thing all the time."
YES. Currently, the website computer thing. with the databases and the code and design and information architecture. I have no frelling clue what to do with a PDF anymore. I used up all my memory on stupid calls to mySQL. PDFs have advanced so much since I knew them well.
I pointed out that the PDF format is designed so people can't just make whatever changes they want, and the customer said, "I don't care, I want to change it, how do I convert it?"
and this is exactly what I should have said if I were smart like Connie.
but they would have heard "whatever changes you want blah bladiddycakes beep boop bla bla bla. you're the greatest."
oh, and everyone else is on vacation. including the person who made this mess.
Sox, I didn't think you worked at my company, but apparently you do. We have the same. damn. problem. all the time.
Tep, we would have so much fun. Hey, did you get the magnet from adobe font folio last week?
*IF* it were possible to convert from PDF to Quark (which it isn't).
right. we've been there too. and back.
also - HI D!
D is currently trying to get me to start opening the various beverages that should be around here somewhere. I might.
not just because the dr says DH has shingles.
Especially around Perkins.
Also around Sox. (We're doing a BuPhista f2f, not the F2F.)
We had homemade éclairs today!
Ooh, yum. That may beat my Key Lime cupcake.
ION, I am officially On Vacation, but there's so much we need to get done tonight so that we can leave at the crack of fucking dawn tomorrow:
mow lawn
vacuum whole house (note: house is small, but pet hair is plentiful and hides in corners, so the job is still a chore)
mop bathroom floor and make sure sink, etc. are clean
wash dishes
make a family-friendly account for my laptop and password-protect my regular account (since the laptop is of course coming with me, but nobody needs to see my porn)
PACK
have the last sex we're going to have for over a week
All but the last 3 are so that our friend who's house-and-pet-sitting won't have to deal with our accumulated filth. Otherwise, I swear I wouldn't bother and I would be content to come home to a hovel.
Sox, I didn't think you worked at my company, but apparently you do. We have the same. damn. problem. all the time.
Tep, we would have so much fun. Hey, did you get the magnet from adobe font folio last week?
No! Unless someone thieved it, which I couldn't blame them for. Dang!
Is this the place where we come to confess our sins?
I am scum. I have wimped out on the second wedding of a niece this year. The first because I couldn't afford to fly, this time one of my sisters was going to come down and fetch me cause she's off for the summer (teacher). I was looking forward to it, but I've had a stubborn respiratory virus that won't leave and the stress of getting all the things done that I needed to in order to leave has aggravated my Fibromyalgia and CFS.
But, I feel terrible about missing another family event.
Someone tell me it will be okay, please?
quester it is not your fault. I'm sure your family understands that you would be there if you could and if they don't understand they're a big bunch of poo-poo heads!
Thanks, Laga. They are actually great people - well, most of them ( it's a big family) - but they all live up in Iowa and I live in Kansas City, so I don't see them as much as I would like. I can't drive that far and it is now way too expensive to fly.
boss just asked me if my first choice place to transfer is indeed my first choice. Keeping fingers crossed that's where I'm going. It'd be close enough to walk to (in an hour).
Don't feel bad. These things happen.
I was feeling guilty about even contemplating not going back East to my sister's for Christmas, until she decided "Wouldn't it be fun to have Christmas in VT rather than Boston?" Thereby making it:
1) more complicated to get to, and
2) more expensive (since Montreal is the closest airport)
So I stopped feeling guilty and just blatently asked my BiL to give me miles if they wanted me to come. How much awesomer is my BiL than my sister? He offered to pick me up and drop me off in Montreal so I wouldn't have to rent a car.
