Thursday: today's victory

Today I had a victory. I wrote a program a while ago and last week gave it to the operators to start using. Well, it didn't work. Why? Because I wrote it with VBA 2007 and the computer only had 2003 on it. There are some commands that are not backwards compatible, as I quickly found out.

Ok, not a problem. Well, just a little problem. We'll run it on the computers next to the other computers. I try it. The network drive permissions are incorrect. Bother. I finally get that straightened out. It seems to work! Hurray!

Of course, I didn't test one of the buttons to print something. It turns out that these other computers aren't hooked to the printers. (The first computers were...it never even crossed my mind.) So I had to figure out how to get those computers hooked to the printers. The on-line tutorials were not very helpful as they left out the one step I couldn't figure out: how to get the server name for the printer.

Here it is, just for reference: 1) get the printers and faxes open in an explorer type window (you can right click the "printers and faxes" if you can't figure out any other way). 2) In the white area, right click and choose server properties. 3) Find the name of the server. It might be the computer name, but not necessarily.

Wednesday: more thoughts on words

Sanctuary.

What is the first definition that you think of when you hear that word? A place of worship or a place of refuge?

And really, shouldn't it mean both at the same time? Shouldn't our place of worship be a place of refuge?

Tuesday: hmmm

Hmmm.

I'm making a list. It helps to de-stress me because then I don't have to remember everything that is running through my head.

I love lists. I make them all the time. I have been better lately though and haven't added fun things like nap and shower just to have them on my list.

Monday: why my back could be sore

First of all, I had to collect six catapult pieces and carry them at once in my backpack. "No big deal," I thought. But then I found out they (circled in yellow) were about six times the size of me (circled in blue).

Fine, fine...my back probably isn't sore from that. But it could be sore from shoveling this morning. We didn't get shoveled out until around noon (we took many breaks). I did go into work after lunch, but there were only about 15 out of 50 people there.

We shoveled just enough to get the car out.

(And my back isn't sore...but after today, it could have been. The snow was heavy.)

Sunday: weather

I took this picture this morning because I found it interesting how the last bit of snow was melting from our deck.

But then by the time we got back from church around 1pm, we had an inch of snow!

By 4pm, we had more.

When I went out to shovel, it was a good 4" and still coming down hard. The part I shoveled first probably had about 1/8" on it by the time I was done, 15 minutes later.

And here's my helper. She wanted me to go to bed.

Update: Ben and I went to shovel again around 9:30. There was another 5" minimum.

UpdateII: Ben and I looked outside around 10:30. There was another 1".

Saturday: waking up

I woke up way too early this morning...earlier than the alarm usually goes off on a weekday. While it was kind of sad, I did accomplish many things before 9am.

Friday: something I never thought I'd burn

Tonight I was making curry (and using up the potatoes). At one point, I need to heat some vegetable oil and then put flour in it. In the past when I've done this, little bubbles appear when it gets hot.

So this time I was waiting for the bubbles to appear. And waiting. And making sure the burner was on. And waiting some more. No bubbles. Finally I decided it had been long enough and started to put the flour in. It stank like burnt food, and the flour even looked burnt. So I threw it out and started again. It turns out that the little bubbles only appear when there is an "imperfection" in the oil...like a little piece of meat from the main dish. But when your pan is perfectly clean, the oil just starts to heat without the bubbles.

And the quilt progress - I've quilted about 1/4 of it.