When Edwin and I were in CA for DeanFest, we visited a friend of his in Santa Monica, and we all went out to the Pier. There was this giant seagull waiting outside the hotdog shop, who swooped down and grabbed a hot dog out of a three year old's hand. *I* feel like that seagull, grin. . . . .
Going to have to eat my words, BTW. Last night I gave up an accepted that I'm doomed to use outlook express. Can't figure out Opera; Eurdora is now coupled with Thunderbird, which can't configure itself to fetch mail from earthlink. Ironically, there are great overlaps between the earthlink mail client and outlook. At least I can *find* stuff on it. However -- my kid didn't install Microsoft Office which contains all the programs with spellcheckers, so outlook can't spell. . . .
Ya, I wanna cry, but am all cried out about this issue. Onward.
I'm not sure Outlook Experss (now Windows Live Mail) would use the Office spellcheckers anyway. It's a totally different program from the Outlook that comes with Office.
I've by now used Outlook for so long I'd feel lost (for a while, anyway) with anything else.
We just got word that the mother of childhood friends, herself a longtime friend of Mum's, is suffering from dementia and is so ill that she has been institutionalized. The news was a terrible shock, so much so that I'm physically sick about it.
I generally try to avoid learning new software. Since I'm happy with Outlook and not terminally unhappy with IE (for which most Web sites are optimized), I'm not convinced there is any reason to switch. Plus, I'm sceptical about the idea of integrating an e-mail client with a Web browser. I "grew up" with stand-alone programs, and can't quite shake the feeling that trying to have one huge program do everything is asking for trouble.
Not that I never buy new software. I just spent $100 for an upgrade to the new version of EndNote. But that has new features that I expect to save me a significant amount of time. (EndNote is a program you need if you're writing research journal articles. Others needn't think about it.)
My sympathies. And yet, this is the sort of thing that all too often happens as we grow older. Gradually advancing dementia (technically not Alzheimer's) was why my mother spent her last years in a nursing home.
When I looked for spelling, microsoft assured me that the spellchecker was hooked to the spellchecker in Word. . . . I stopped using it when (2003) it started stealing pictures, saying all pictures had viruses. . . . Including ones I sent to myself from my own computer, lol!
Web-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.
That's my problem, Cat. I want to do EMAIL -- NOT newsgroups, feeds, chat. Aside from which, it's a mozilla thang, and while I adore firefox, the email clients all seem to exhibit the same kind of thinking which both doesn't work here, and drives me nutso. If there were a list where you could click "decline" and they'd take it away, mebbe. . . . Whatever the bug in thunderbird is that keeps it from finding earthlink. . . . But I truly just want to download my email, not play bugzilla with mozilla suites. . . .
Ah, Cat, I'm sorry ♥ It's a good thing to remember though (this is from my nursing home experience) that while it makes everyone else miserable, *they* are perfectly happy almost all the time.
Puddle, not to be a pain, but just to point out: IIRC from Netscape, you can use only the bits you want. The other bits don't bother you. You don't even know they're there unless you happen to see them on the menus.
It's a reality I try not to contemplate too closely, either for myself or for my parents, because it's terrifying. Although, I do realize that dementia patients are often quite content.
I've never had any such problem with either Outlook 2003 or 2007. But that's Outlook, not Outlook Express/Windows Live Mail. I do find that recent version of IE have a bad habit of blocking things that I know are perfectly safe. But I can just click and tell it to download them anyway.
Got up early and worked at the Library. My regular coworker was off playing harp at a wedding, so I worked with our best sub. We had the busiest Saturday I can recall, plus two power surges that made us have to reboot the computers. Son*in*Maine came with two of our granddaughters and visited the Library! They were delayed by a traffic jam (which seldom happens in VT). He had to be at our house to receive a conference call 15 minutes after the Library closed, and needed me to "ride herd." So of course people stayed up to the last minute and afterward!
Got home and Son greets me at the door to tell me the electricity is out His cell phone doesn't work from there and our downstairs phones *being wireless* aren't working. I bounded up the stairs and discovered one land line working...to his immense relief as he'd given the folks our phone number as a backup. The conference call began with him unable to access the internet, but the lights came back on about half way through and we were up and running.
Meanwhile all day long Hubby and another Son of ours were out on Lake Champlain in a big sailing race...in numerous downpours!!
Long story short, a race that often takes 4 hours took 9 1/2 today. Hubby never got to see Son*in*Maine and our granddaughters. But they WON the race! Hubby got to the dock just in time to dash off and meet me at the Playhouse as we had tickets for this evening. We arrived from opposite directions and drove into the parking lot only 2 cars apart! LOL! Mind you, he arrived with totally soaked jeans, socks and sneakers. So I met him with a bag of nice looking dry clothes and a suit jacket. He changed in the Men's Room, then joined me at our seats (Row G, on the aisle). Just as he sat down, the play began! LOL!
It gets better. This wildly strange day concluded with a FABULOUS play, and during the first act a BAT went flying all over the theatre! That added some real excitement, to be sure. Even so, the cast never missed a beat. It was an AWESOME presentation of The Spelling Bee, which received a standing ovation. SWEET!
Howard is definitely first!!
ReplyDeleteGreat photo again, listener! Is that your library?
Ah! Today we have unadulterated gorgeous! 70ยบ and a tiny wind. Sun and cloud in turn. Happy camper here.
ReplyDeleteDamn! Watching these two stupid novices on ebay bid the item I want up out of everyone's reach. A total nube (0) and a (10). . . . God luva duck!
ReplyDeleteWhen Edwin and I were in CA for DeanFest, we visited a friend of his in Santa Monica, and we all went out to the Pier. There was this giant seagull waiting outside the hotdog shop, who swooped down and grabbed a hot dog out of a three year old's hand. *I* feel like that seagull, grin. . . . .
ReplyDeleteVery strange. . . . two missing posts. . . . (short form -- I won, in the last thirty seconds)
ReplyDeleteDoes that mean you got the eBay item?
ReplyDeleteYup! Snatched right out the hands of the newbies. Mean, eh?
ReplyDeleteGoing to have to eat my words, BTW. Last night I gave up an accepted that I'm doomed to use outlook express. Can't figure out Opera; Eurdora is now coupled with Thunderbird, which can't configure itself to fetch mail from earthlink. Ironically, there are great overlaps between the earthlink mail client and outlook. At least I can *find* stuff on it. However -- my kid didn't install Microsoft Office which contains all the programs with spellcheckers, so outlook can't spell. . . .
ReplyDeleteYa, I wanna cry, but am all cried out about this issue. Onward.
Hey, to the victor belong the spoils, right?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure Outlook Experss (now Windows Live Mail) would use the Office spellcheckers anyway. It's a totally different program from the Outlook that comes with Office.
ReplyDeleteI've by now used Outlook for so long I'd feel lost (for a while, anyway) with anything else.
Good show!
ReplyDeleteEspecially against newbes. Crummy pains in the neck. Who needs 'em, right? *evil laugh*
ReplyDeleteYou sure you don't want to try Sea Monkey?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.seamonkey-project.org/
We just got word that the mother of childhood friends, herself a longtime friend of Mum's, is suffering from dementia and is so ill that she has been institutionalized. The news was a terrible shock, so much so that I'm physically sick about it.
ReplyDeleteI generally try to avoid learning new software. Since I'm happy with Outlook and not terminally unhappy with IE (for which most Web sites are optimized), I'm not convinced there is any reason to switch. Plus, I'm sceptical about the idea of integrating an e-mail client with a Web browser. I "grew up" with stand-alone programs, and can't quite shake the feeling that trying to have one huge program do everything is asking for trouble.
ReplyDeleteNot that I never buy new software. I just spent $100 for an upgrade to the new version of EndNote. But that has new features that I expect to save me a significant amount of time. (EndNote is a program you need if you're writing research journal articles. Others needn't think about it.)
My sympathies. And yet, this is the sort of thing that all too often happens as we grow older. Gradually advancing dementia (technically not Alzheimer's) was why my mother spent her last years in a nursing home.
ReplyDeleteWhen I looked for spelling, microsoft assured me that the spellchecker was hooked to the spellchecker in Word. . . . I stopped using it when (2003) it started stealing pictures, saying all pictures had viruses. . . . Including ones I sent to myself from my own computer, lol!
ReplyDeleteWeb-browser, advanced e-mail, newsgroup and feed client, IRC chat, and HTML editing made simple -- all your Internet needs in one application.
ReplyDeleteThat's my problem, Cat. I want to do EMAIL -- NOT newsgroups, feeds, chat. Aside from which, it's a mozilla thang, and while I adore firefox, the email clients all seem to exhibit the same kind of thinking which both doesn't work here, and drives me nutso. If there were a list where you could click "decline" and they'd take it away, mebbe. . . . Whatever the bug in thunderbird is that keeps it from finding earthlink. . . . But I truly just want to download my email, not play bugzilla with mozilla suites. . . .
Ah, Cat, I'm sorry ♥ It's a good thing to remember though (this is from my nursing home experience) that while it makes everyone else miserable, *they* are perfectly happy almost all the time.
ReplyDeletePuddle, not to be a pain, but just to point out: IIRC from Netscape, you can use only the bits you want. The other bits don't bother you. You don't even know they're there unless you happen to see them on the menus.
ReplyDeleteThanks, guys.
ReplyDeleteIt's a reality I try not to contemplate too closely, either for myself or for my parents, because it's terrifying. Although, I do realize that dementia patients are often quite content.
I've never had any such problem with either Outlook 2003 or 2007. But that's Outlook, not Outlook Express/Windows Live Mail. I do find that recent version of IE have a bad habit of blocking things that I know are perfectly safe. But I can just click and tell it to download them anyway.
ReplyDeleteNo, that is none other than Shelburne Farms! Gorgeous!
ReplyDelete=Great Big HUGS!=
ReplyDeleteAm home from QUITE a full day!!
ReplyDeleteGot up early and worked at the Library. My regular coworker was off playing harp at a wedding, so I worked with our best sub. We had the busiest Saturday I can recall, plus two power surges that made us have to reboot the computers. Son*in*Maine came with two of our granddaughters and visited the Library! They were delayed by a traffic jam (which seldom happens in VT). He had to be at our house to receive a conference call 15 minutes after the Library closed, and needed me to "ride herd." So of course people stayed up to the last minute and afterward!
Got home and Son greets me at the door to tell me the electricity is out His cell phone doesn't work from there and our downstairs phones *being wireless* aren't working. I bounded up the stairs and discovered one land line working...to his immense relief as he'd given the folks our phone number as a backup. The conference call began with him unable to access the internet, but the lights came back on about half way through and we were up and running.
Meanwhile all day long Hubby and another Son of ours were out on Lake Champlain in a big sailing race...in numerous downpours!!
Long story short, a race that often takes 4 hours took 9 1/2 today. Hubby never got to see Son*in*Maine and our granddaughters. But they WON the race! Hubby got to the dock just in time to dash off and meet me at the Playhouse as we had tickets for this evening. We arrived from opposite directions and drove into the parking lot only 2 cars apart! LOL! Mind you, he arrived with totally soaked jeans, socks and sneakers. So I met him with a bag of nice looking dry clothes and a suit jacket. He changed in the Men's Room, then joined me at our seats (Row G, on the aisle). Just as he sat down, the play began! LOL!
It gets better. This wildly strange day concluded with a FABULOUS play, and during the first act a BAT went flying all over the theatre! That added some real excitement, to be sure. Even so, the cast never missed a beat. It was an AWESOME presentation of The Spelling Bee, which received a standing ovation. SWEET!
Home now and recovering. 8-)
WOW!!
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