Here be dragons

[da]

Is it sad that the thing I most want to remember about this weekend was the rather dramatic dream I had last night, in which I slew a scary dragon with a large spoon? (Thrown like a boomerang).

Hm. And I mostly forgot the dream until mid-afternoon, when I was walking on campus and a squirrel tried to hold its ground when I walked toward it on the path, and I thought to it, "You better watch out, I might have a spoon. Wait, what?..."

I sorted all of the electronics in the other closet in my study. I haven't decided whether I'm actually going to try and sell the small pile of sellables, or donate them to MCC Generations thrift store (dan suggests I could possibly get a hefty tax receipt for them). Selling stuff takes time. I remember when I was all gung-ho about ebay. Now I have a full-time job. And too little energy to work on too many things. Hm. (jeanne_d_arc, I hope to have something for you by the weekend; and I have to find a means to turn your Microsoft Publisher into a .pdf, since I'm not working on a Windows machine any more. Maybe I can find one at work...)

Hey, failing that: does anybody have easy access to Publisher and wouldn't mind turning around one or a few edits of a 20mb or so newsletter document some time in the next few weeks?...

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[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

I have Publisher on my laptop. I could probably do it so long as there's not much time pressure.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

OK, you're backup plan #1. :) Thanks. I'll still look for a localer install, because it's not 100% clear to me how much time pressure there is. But- thanks for the offer.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Perchance, what's your time availability to magically turn a publisher .pub into a .pdf ? If you don't have time in the next couple of days, don't worry about it, I'm making a hail-mary try (Hi? Mary?). None of the offices or labs I have access to have Publisher (and the public library has publisher but no pdf writer- and printing to paper and scanning just seems wrong).

http://www.coder.com/daniel/beemer.pub in case it's an easy do, for you. It's 1mb as a .pub file.

Big thx in advance ;)

Just call me Grace...

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Done and emailed to ya. Took a whole minute.

Re: Just call me Grace...

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Dr. Grace Beemer Tectonic. You Rock like the Precambrian.

Re: Just call me Grace...

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Hey Beemer: do you have time to churn another .pub into .pdf? he said hopefully?

I'd thought that the person responsible for writing the newsletter had gotten Acrobat in the last six months, but... no such luck. (Yar! So much for assuming it was a solved problem...)

If it's not a problem for you to do, I've got it stashed here: http://www.coder.com/daniel/11.10.08-FLGBTQC-autumn.pub (it's a 7mb file- I'm guessing there are many photos which are insufficiently-compressed...)

And again, no worries if it's not a good time for you. I expect I can scarce up another friend who uses MS Publisher somewhere!

Re: Just call me Grace...

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

I just determined that our campus copy shop will do the conversion for me.

Yay!

Re: Just call me Grace...

[dr-tectonic.livejournal.com]

Cool. I was going to offer to do it this evening. Let me know if the copy shop doesn't come through!

Re: Just call me Grace...

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

The eagle has flown. The midnight bomber bombs at midnight. The .pub is .pdf'ed!

Thanks for the offer, good sir.