Stuff accomplished today.

[nolawitch58]

This morning, I went to David's house to get him started using Word to type his writing. I showed him the basics and told him not to be afraid of clicking around to see what's available. He was dubious, but I think he'll do fine once he gets the hang of it. He and his wife need to get an ISP so that they can keep up with their community organization more easily. I advised strongly against AOHell and suggested NetZero for inexpensive dialup.

I dyed my hair. I don't know what they put in that stuff, but my hair always feels fuller and softer after a dye job. I wanted it to have several days between the initial dying and my interview on Wednesday. The inevitable splotches from drips would have time to wear off my skin.

Comments

[lab-rattus.livejournal.com]

So, did you go to the hair salon or did you dye it yourself. If you dyed it yourself, what did you use? I am thinking about coloring my hair. Need product and color advise.

BTW, how is Pete's gout? Is he staying away from the salted meat group?

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

I dyed it myself using Clairol. It's not difficult. Go to Sally's and get some #20 developer and a color you like, some plastic gloves and have fun.

Pete's gout has improved somewhat. I don't know what he's avoiding except for walking overly much until it clears up totally.

Good luck!

[saminz.livejournal.com]

For the interview, now. Sad to hear your job turned lousy, too...

Do tell the guy using Word that he better get familiar with the acrobat as well if he ever wants to get anything printed, ok ;-)?

Re: Good luck!

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I'm sure the new place will be better.

The guy I'm teaching Word is retired and it's going to be hard enough getting him proficient with Word. What's up with Acrobat? Most publishers in the USA require submissions in Word format, not Adobe. I guess they take the raw text, reformat it for their presses and send it to their typesetting equipment. I may be wrong, but I can't imagine publishers would want authors fooling with the mechanics of a book rather than the contents.

Re: Good luck!

[saminz.livejournal.com]

Well... As soon as you take a word-file to another machine, you run into trouble. Footnotes, "headlines", anything out of the very ordinary will just never stay put. Pictures, tables, transparencies - just forget it, for the most part. And not to mention the countless "syllable division" plug-ins, of which you simply NEVER have the right one! I am amazed that publishers there will take it - but they probably have their own standards. Good luck to them ;-).

Acrobat usually "fixes" a layout nicely, or will at least tell you what the problem is.

Eurgh, Word?

[lionsphil.livejournal.com]

Why would you inflict that upon anyone? At least OpenOffice's file format can be crowbarred open to recover the text when the office suite inevitably reaches the point of exploding every time the file is even mentioned.

Re: Eurgh, Word?

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

That's what he has on his computer. That's what the people in his community association use. If he's using standard software, he will have more people he can ask for help than just me.

He's also old and slow to pick up on new things.