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ever have one of those weeks?
Actually it's been several.
Gave myself an embarassing injury a couple weeks back. Both how I did it, and the fact that I had to ask a friend to come over and look at it because I couldn't see it (and it was bad enough telling the friend, telling a doctor was Right Out unless it'd been serious. Fortunately, it wasn't).
Then there was the bit with a bank I posted about.
And my health insurance has gone up something over $700/year (that's an increase of $700/year, not a total)
Still fighting uncooperative software on the new computer.
Spent several hours today tearing my hair out over a *simple* program I threw together to let me merge messages from several old incarnations of my mail program, without winding up with tons of dupes.
Finally realized that the problem was one of these details that was so "everybody knows" that they hadn't mentioned it in the manual for the ancient version of BASIC I was using. Seems that the ctrl-Z char being used as a message seperator in the folder files I was tryimg to break down into individual messages is used as "end of file when you do OPEN file FOR INPUT AS #x.
I had to change to opening as Binary.
Meanwhile, my other attemp to do some importing messed up some stuff in the mailer. Mostly a matter of having to spend a few hours at some point in the future manually editing a file to allow deleting some phantom folders. L-(
Christmas with Chrissy & Stacy had some ups and downs too.
And then there's finances.
2007 is not gonna be fun... :-(
Gave myself an embarassing injury a couple weeks back. Both how I did it, and the fact that I had to ask a friend to come over and look at it because I couldn't see it (and it was bad enough telling the friend, telling a doctor was Right Out unless it'd been serious. Fortunately, it wasn't).
Then there was the bit with a bank I posted about.
And my health insurance has gone up something over $700/year (that's an increase of $700/year, not a total)
Still fighting uncooperative software on the new computer.
Spent several hours today tearing my hair out over a *simple* program I threw together to let me merge messages from several old incarnations of my mail program, without winding up with tons of dupes.
Finally realized that the problem was one of these details that was so "everybody knows" that they hadn't mentioned it in the manual for the ancient version of BASIC I was using. Seems that the ctrl-Z char being used as a message seperator in the folder files I was tryimg to break down into individual messages is used as "end of file when you do OPEN file FOR INPUT AS #x.
I had to change to opening as Binary.
Meanwhile, my other attemp to do some importing messed up some stuff in the mailer. Mostly a matter of having to spend a few hours at some point in the future manually editing a file to allow deleting some phantom folders. L-(
Christmas with Chrissy & Stacy had some ups and downs too.
And then there's finances.
2007 is not gonna be fun... :-(