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The Hobbit Hole XXXIV - But better than rain or rippling streams...

Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog

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To: Overtaxed; Lil'freeper; g'nad

Well, just because some things are complicated doesn’t make me curse Bill Gates. Office is a heck of a great product really, you just have to know how to do it. :~)

Praise Bill Gates!


2,381 posted on 09/06/2007 9:25:43 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: JenB

mmmmmm...six...


2,382 posted on 09/06/2007 9:26:26 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands

Heh...I was gonna suggest that graphic be posted. ;-)

Ungh...it’s just starting to hit me that I now have just two evenings left to prepare for going home. I haven’t started packing, I don’t know how to get to the hotel where I’m parking and picking up the shuttle, and I don’t have any food for the trip, which is going to be more than twelve hours, so I should get *something*, I guess. And I’m already worrying about all the things I could forget.

I hate travel. I really, really hate it.


2,383 posted on 09/06/2007 9:37:22 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: HairOfTheDog

And C#/.NET is a beautiful, beautiful thing. MSDN’s documentation is wonderful.

Formatting Office is frustrating though. But Microsoft has done some stuff really right in the last couple years.


2,384 posted on 09/06/2007 9:37:23 AM PDT by JenB
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To: RosieCotton

Just remember not to pack any liquids. Or jellies. And pack a bunch of books.


2,385 posted on 09/06/2007 9:38:10 AM PDT by JenB
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To: g'nad

Great!

Now I’m feeling guilty about gettin’ you all confused with the style thing.

Doh!


2,386 posted on 09/06/2007 9:39:22 AM PDT by Overtaxed
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To: JenB

Gonna have books and notebooks. It’s going to be a lonnnnng day. I’d better make sure I have plenty of headache remedies, too.

For foods, you can have pretty much anything not-liquid, right?


2,387 posted on 09/06/2007 9:44:11 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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Ungh...it’s just starting to hit me that I now have just two evenings left to prepare for going home. I haven’t started packing, I don’t know how to get to the hotel where I’m parking and picking up the shuttle, and I don’t have any food for the trip, which is going to be more than twelve hours, so I should get *something*, I guess. And I’m already worrying about all the things I could forget. I hate travel. I really, really hate it.

Aren't you just a ray of sunshine! :~)

You can buy meals on the plane. They've been quite good when we've gone. There's fast food in the airports. Bringing food sounds way more complicated, but maybe that's just me.

2,388 posted on 09/06/2007 9:58:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: JenB
But Microsoft has done some stuff really right in the last couple years.

Which means they probably bought some other company working on it and let them finish.
2,389 posted on 09/06/2007 10:07:03 AM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: TalonDJ; JenB; g'nad; Ramius; Corin Stormhands; RosieCotton; Overtaxed; Lil'freeper
Now I know Scott Adams has a mole inside our organization:


2,390 posted on 09/06/2007 10:13:09 AM PDT by 300winmag (Life is hard! It is even harder when you are stupid!)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Airport / airplane food is a heck of a lot more expensive than just bringing some crackers and some such stuff, though. :-\

I just wish I could get into a better frame of mind. I’m still in hyper-alert, something-really-bad-is-about-to-happen mode. And it’s not just the looming travel that’s doing it. Dunno what’s wrong with me.


2,391 posted on 09/06/2007 10:13:39 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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When you’re in vacation mode, you’re not living on crackers, you’re having something good and paying money for it.

I don’t know what’s wrong either, but cutting loose from some of these worries and treating yourself a little might help. On your trip, take plenty of pocket cash and spend it. Buy yourself a nice lunch.


2,392 posted on 09/06/2007 10:19:22 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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To: TalonDJ

Well, some of it, but I think C# was all them and it’s just beautiful.


2,393 posted on 09/06/2007 10:23:10 AM PDT by JenB
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To: HairOfTheDog
Praise Bill Gates!

*hiss*

2,394 posted on 09/06/2007 10:31:12 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: HairOfTheDog
Well, just because some things are complicated doesn’t make me curse Bill Gates.

I curse his name daily due to two little words... Internet Explorer. ;~)

2,395 posted on 09/06/2007 10:31:43 AM PDT by ecurbh (Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.)
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I’ve never had one problem with Internet Explorer :~)


2,396 posted on 09/06/2007 10:32:42 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Airport / airplane food is a heck of a lot more expensive than just bringing some crackers and some such stuff, though. :-\

Airplane snacks run $4-5 for a box of salty-sugary-starch crap. I keep a ziplock of (homemade) trail mix in my carry-on, along with two books and a bottle of water. I bring the trail mix and books from home which frees cash to buy water behind security. It's a ritual that's somewhere between supersition and insurance. Any time I fly without trail mix, water, and a book, there are storms or delays or other assorted miseries.

2,397 posted on 09/06/2007 10:35:39 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (You do not have the plug-in required to view this tagline.)
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To: 300winmag; TalonDJ; JenB; g'nad; Ramius; RosieCotton; Overtaxed; Lil'freeper

Heh...when the organization I worked for in DC went throough a nasty reorganization, I was ~briefly~ given responsibility for about 3/4 of the entire operation. I was 28 and in waaaaaaayyy over my head.

I made the mistake of telling the Chairman of the Board who was acting as Director. He said “give me a report of all that you’re doing.”

So I did. Then he fired me.


2,398 posted on 09/06/2007 10:36:59 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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A-1 SPAM


2,399 posted on 09/06/2007 10:58:03 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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To: Corin Stormhands

B-1 SPAM


2,400 posted on 09/06/2007 10:58:17 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands
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