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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[mynatt.livejournal.com]

I've been frustrated several times by the fact that pretty much nothing but Publisher opens Publisher files. But then, it's such a terrible program that why would you want to?

The best legal solution for this problem I know is to install Adobe's authoritative & free-as-in-beer Windows Postscript printer driver on the machine in question, use it to print to a local PS file, then use free-as-in-speech Ghostview for Windows to generate a PDF from that. Of course, it's not difficult to illegally install Acrobat either.