Day: March 2, 2009

Crankypantsing

Damn Oven

Shelly

My oven died. Again. It was the same problem as last time. I didn’t look very closely when the maintenance guy was explaining the problem (the less I know about electricity, the better), but apparently there is some sort of ground wire that keeps shorting out. He swears it’s fixed FOR REALS this time. We’ll see.

In an effort to take it on a test run, I baked a chocolate cake. Mmmm.

What I did not do is finish cleaning out the studio/office. It’s about half done, but the rest will have to wait, I think. I still have to clean the bathroom, and after a weekend of working my ass off, that’s about all I intend to do tonight.

But! I think everything else on my big list is pretty much done. I even cleaned out the bedroom closet and sorted a bunch of junk that had started to procreate in the corner of the living room. Someone is hopefully coming to pick up the stuff I Freecycled, tomorrow night. I hope she brings help, because one of the boxes is kind of heavy. There’s also a contractor bag full of board games that weights a metric buttload. If she doesn’t bring help, I’m going to have to divide the games into two smaller trash bags. Carrying something that heavy across the living room is one thing, but carrying it out to her car might make me cry.

Photography

Spring Cleaning: Phase 4

Shelly

It’s nearly done, and a good thing, because my knee and back are sore. Also my hands, from stapling new covers onto the dining room chair seats. Once the giant mountain of Freecycle stuff is gone from the dining room and I dump the crap in my car at the Mission, all that’s left will be cleaning the bathroom, washing the dog and trimming her nails, and cleaning the studio, which is already half-way clean.

I’m hoping to finish up tonight (well, everything except the trip to the Mission). If so, this will be the first time since moving here that everything has been clean and organized at the same time. I’ve even been dumping and sorting drawers, closets, and boxes as I’ve moved stuff around.

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These two may as well be joined at the hip, because they are never more than a fin’s length away from each other.

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Gone to the Dark Side, BRB

Shelly

I finally got fed up with Thunderbird. The way it displays quoted text drives me batshit crazy. Since I’ve got Office 2007 installed on Cracktop, and since I have to use Outlook for work, I figured I may as well use it at home. As much as it hurts to say it, it’s a huge improvement over Thunderbird. For one thing, you can control how incoming messages are displayed, even to the extent that it’ll strip out HTML. This is good.

Plus, the integrated calendar is helpful. And the good lord knows, after spending three hours in a ridiculous workshop learning the dark secrets of the Outlook calendar, I should probably put that evil knowledge to use.

[Addendum: I found a utility to convert Thunderbird mailboxes to Outlook-readable files. It involved converting, then dumping into Outlook Express, then importing into Outlook, but it worked flawlessly. The whole process took about 15 minutes, and that includes searching for the converter, downloading and installing it, and time spent hunting around on my hard drive for the stupid TB files.]