I almost forgot that I upgraded to the new Blogger version and switched what my template looks like. I was actually going to even try to design my own template or modify the ones they offer, but hey, I got bored and moved on to something else.
So thanks to Pat for the Gimpshop suggestion - I downloaded it, and it's done all I need it to do beautifully. I still haven't posted many pics, but hopefully I'll get there. My attention span is so short that by the time I log onto Blogger I've forgotten about what I wanted to write about.
Today is my birthday, and my workday was pretty uneventful (same ol', same ol'). But when I got home, Jay had gotten me some very, very pretty flowers, and a TV tray with fun '50s star patterns on it. (I did really want some sort of TV tray for the living room, because I wanted something I could put my laptop on without getting in the way of tasty snacks I like to put on the coffee table.) And then Jay took me out to dinner to Prezo, a very nice restaurant in Milford that we like for fancy-ish occasions. I got a steak! Delicious steak! With a side of asparagus! Delicious! Mmmm!
So I'm now 28, and we're now watching the Celtics play the Knicks, and I guess the Celtics are playing well for my birthday (they're up over 20), and Abe's stomach is making strange noises, but that's probably because he was eating lots of grass on his walk after work, and my palm is itchy, and I think I have to change out of my power suit into some comfy clothes, and I should load up WordPerfect onto my computer.
So another thing to say: I've been using WordPerfect for the past, oh, three-plus years to do my transcripts. I've gotten used to it. I've been using it on a reburbished Dell laptop from 1998 that su-cked. When I got this fancy new laptop, I didn't have WordPerfect to load up onto it, and since it came with Microsoft Office Suite, I figured I'd try out the ol' Microsoft Word. It pissed me off! I find it difficult to deal with page numbering, I find it difficult to define specific punctuation I want it to do, I find it difficult to deal with line numbering. Many little tiny things that bothered me. The judge I'm with is fascinated by my use of this new computer, and daily he will ask how it's going. I informed him of some of my frustrations with Microsoft Word, and he made it a personal mission to figure out the things I was frustrated with. And he did! I was very surprised that he took the time to figure it out. He helped me figure out line numbering (it's under the page layout menu under 'file'?? Hello, nonintuitive!). That was very nice of a judge to do.
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Happy birthday! I'm the worst at birthdays so sorry for the lateness.
Happy Birthday! I am worse than Dennis at birthdays!
At my old job I had trouble switching back and forth between WordPerfect and Word. We usually used Word so whenever we had to use WordPerfect we would get all frustrated and weird things would happen when you opened a document made in one program with the other program.
Thanks for the b-day wishes, everybody! I'm the worst out of EVERYBODY at birthdays, so pltthh, and you can most likely expect not to receive a happy birthday wish from me on your birthday, even though I'm probably thinking it in my head.
I still have a copy of Wordperfect on ye olde black and white laptop. I typed all my Art History papers on it. I think they may have been the only papers I typed in college. Majoring in art was the way to go.
In high school we learned how to type on an orange-text-on-black-screen version of Wordperfect. It's tough to swtich back and forth between that and Word.
Happy belated birthday!
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