April 16, 1997
"The Judge said Boy! Just one more!!"
Watched the news yesterday...may people lining up at the last minute to deliver their tax returns to Uncle Sam. The big thng seemed to be why did they wait so long to do it. Duh!!!
Just downloaded Visual Page 1.0 from Symantec. What a nice piece of software. Much faster than PageMill 2.0 on a 68040 'chine and the table creation and editing/sizing function blows the doors off of anything else I have used. Plus, even in PageMill 1.02 I would get dropped characters at wordwrap and this thing just chugs along. The interface is clean and intuitive and after 5 minutes I can recommend this software. At $99 dollars, it equals PageMill on value and beats it on performance. This thing is just fast and it works. Period. Buy it.
Just spoke to Colette...happy days!!! Got the apartment all cleaned up and vacuumed...except for mopping the kitchen and bathroom floors and cleaning the bathroom sink area. A perpetual nastygram if ever there was one.
We had sunbreaks, wind and some rain today...normal. But it is sunny right now and that more than makes up for anything else it did today. I live at the dead end of a cube line and so I don't get to see the sun or sky and don't know what it is doing most of the day. Which can work both ways. We have a huge atrium in our building and today it was just sunny and bright and made going somewhere something to be looked forward too.
I have to do this. It is playtime!!!!!! This editor is such a step up from PageMill that I can't believe I didn't know about it until today!!!! It's fast and simple and does all the things that the better ones do plus it has built in FTP support. I keep doing all these things with it that I used to wait minutes to complete with PageMill and this thing is just blowing through them. It also has spacers which I hadn't seen yet. I have got to have this thing!!!!! And, it doesn't goof up the document so that PageMill can't read it...which is nice in case I can't buy it for a while. Fishheads on FrontPage...this is great!!! Just tried out the FTP client...too KEWL!!! Like I've always said...it doesn't take much to entertain me. It has got my juices flowing enough to reorganize my folders for my diary entries from 1996 and this year. Wa hoo....
Enough geek rambling!!!
I cannot belive I watched "Touched by an Angel". As mentioned yesterday, I now have this TV and Colette and I watched this show. I am surprised that a show that mentions God would have lasted this long in America. A Neo-Pagan society for sure.
Well, got the last of my clothes washed and got The Boys on the headphones. Debating whether or not to mop the floors tonight or just leave it until tomorrow......tomorrow. Definately.
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I liked Visual Page so much I bought if online. You can get it at www.symantec.com. Check it out all you Macheads! You can't go wrong...unless you're the type who say that real coders use text editors. I'm sure you still use SimpleText to write your thesis too...
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The following are some poems and things written by a young girl I met in the hospital in Dec. She is battling her illness as are we all. These are reprinted with her permission.
Read and try to understand...Confusion
So many things to do
with so little time.
Sometimes I ask...
am I losing my mind?
So many decisions
I know I can't make.
Too much criticism
I just can't take.
I hate all the pain
that is brought upon me.
All these tears
are just too much for me.
I can't stand it
I don't know what to do.
There's so much stress
If only you knew.
Sometimes I wish this
was all pretend, but I
know the pain will never end.
I'm sitting here in a mental hospital thinking what else can go wrong.
Everything is happening so fast I don't even know what's going on.
People probably think I'm crazy but that's not me at all. I just have a
few problems I need to solve. I guess I'll be in here forever 'cause my
problems will never go away. But I brought everything upon myself
so now I have to pay.
The Voices
Why won't the voices leave me alone?
So I can deal with my problems on my own.
I can't concentrate when their here in my head.
I guess I should be dead.
Their going to kill me anyway so why try
and fight all day?
Their taking control of me...if only you could see.
I guess I'll never be as happy as I used to be.
Be Joyous!
Drew
<Smoking a Marlboro Light, drinking Joe and kicking back.>
"I can't drive...55!!!"
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