Sometimes I just don’t get Microsoft Word. It decided, for some reason, that several paragraphs were misspelled. The entire paragraphs. Words like “the” were, at least according to Word, misspelled in those two paragraphs. Everything was underlined in red. I decided to run a spellcheck on the entire document. Perhaps, I thought, this would kickContinue reading “On Frustrations with Word”
Tag Archives: Work
On the Exciting Memories
Yesterday, like Sunday, was miserable and rainy. Raw, even. Cold. Very un-May-like. I wonder if there’s a real word for that — un-May-like. I digress. And yet, I was strangely thrilled by the un-May-like conditions. There was something enticing about waiting for a light rail train as a light rain fell from the darkened sky,Continue reading “On the Exciting Memories”
On Words I’ve Used Today
“Inhumanization.” Hum. I think I’m going to change that to “dehumanization.” No, I like “inhumanization.” It’s less well known.
On Getting to Work
About four miles from my house is the subway terminal. Across the street from my office building is the light rail station. I’d long thought about doing the socially and environmentally responsible thing — take the subway into downtown, and pick up the light rail back out of downtown to the office. I’ve had theContinue reading “On Getting to Work”
On Writing Word Macros
Sometimes my Microsoft Word macro coding skills surprise even myself. Once a month, every month, I create about two dozen files. Word documents, Excel spreadsheets — you name it, I’m creating it. Fortunately, nothing in Powerpoint, because Powerpoint es el Diablo. Wait. Why am I writing en espanol? No habla espanol, por favor. This isContinue reading “On Writing Word Macros”
On the Two-Week Round-Up
I think a biweekly recap makes more sense than a weekly recap. At least, until I change my mind again. 😆 Let’s step back two weeks, to the day before St. Patrick’s Day. There, I mused on The Return of the King, which I watched the night previous. Specifically, I talked about the original endingContinue reading “On the Two-Week Round-Up”
On the Magical Editing Pen
I have a magical editing pen. It is red. It uses gel ink. It writes smoother than any pen I have ever known. It fits my hand like no other pen I have ever owned. It is magical. Gel ink is so beautiful. It’s vibrant. It’s heavy. It looks like absolutely nothing else. It’s aContinue reading “On the Magical Editing Pen”
On This and That
I hate the morning commute sometimes. Going to work, I take the inner Beltway. And sometimes, the inner Beltway from 795 to 83 isn’t terrible. Sometimes it’s quite snappy. Today? It was bumper-to-bumper, slow as molasses. I go back to work, and the commute sucks. Of course, putting forty dollars in the gas tank beforeContinue reading “On This and That”
On Reader Reactions
Something I’ve discovered in the past few days. There are bloggers who blog about my day job. Without being too specific, I write copy for a product catalog. We’re finishing up the March catalog in the next few days. My word count on the March catalog? 72k. That’s a novel. I wrote that in tenContinue reading “On Reader Reactions”
On Nerd-dom
So, there I was, writing a Doctor Who product description for the next catalog, and I typed “Moxx of Bollhoon.” And I knew, as soon as I typed it, that it was wrong. Oh, “Moxx” was right, but I knew I’d mangled “Bollhoon.” I’d mangled an alien name. I was in the right ballpark, IContinue reading “On Nerd-dom”