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Dreams in the night

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I dreamed of you last night. It was a good night.

You’re still with me, after all these years. Your smile is the same. The corners of your mouth turn up the way they always do when you look at me. Your dark eyes shine. Your long, raven hair still gets in the way of everything. Your cheek still caresses mine.

I never did tell you how afraid I was of you at first. I’m sorry it took so long to get to know you because of that. It was the fear. You said it was the same for you. Now I understand. I hope you do too. I’m so sorry for the time we allowed that fear to steal from us.

Your smile, your laughter. The sound of your voice. The way you moved. The way you walked. The way you looked at me.

I tried to scream. I couldn’t. Instead, I woke. Awake, I was unable still to scream, so filled with despair.

Dreams of you in the night don’t come as often now. When they do it’s as though you are here still, and I am grateful for that fleeting comfort. Wherever you are, you are well, I trust, and happy, as before when we were together.

—Make my bed and light the light, for I’ll be home late tonight, Blackbird, bye, bye…

Hardware/Software, Personal

Do any serious writing?

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Scrivener for Windows

I’ve been waiting ages for Scrivener to come out with a viable Windows product. I’m happy to say that my wait is now over. I’m plugging away on their latest version, 1.0.3, and it’s working flawlessly. It doesn’t yet have all of the features of the other computer company at version 2, but it’s coming along nicely.

I’ve plugged three projects into it, and plan on using it from now on. I find the software extremely useful for story planners such as myself. If you’re a pantser, perhaps not so much.

A trial version is available for 30 days of actual use. Like the ad copy says, if you use the trial for two days a week, it lasts 15 weeks. Try it and buy it, right away. I did. Once you get past the learning curve, you’ll not go back to Word. The price can’t be beat either.
Scrivener for Windows

Hardware/Software

Export failed due to an unexpected error – fix here

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MS Word 2010 may give you this useless info box “Export failed due to an unexpected error” when attempting to convert a doc file to a pdf.

Here’s a new fix from a bulletin board:

  1. Go to Windows\System32.
  2. Find t2embed.dll (you must set the option to see all files and folders in windows explorer).
  3. Open properties.
  4. Open security tab.
  5. Select ‘Everyone’ or whatever users you are trying to allow.
  6. Click Edit.
  7. Check Full Control allow All.
  8. Click Apply/Okay.

Problem solved.

If that doesn’t work, try scrolling to the MS fix partway down this page and click on the “Enable” box. That should do the trick.

Stupidity plain and simple

Movember stupidity

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Can someone explain to me exactly how growing a moustache for thirty days contributes to anything other than facial hair that looks childish and ridiculous? The majority of men complain about it, can’t wait to shave it off, and have absolutely no desire to do it again–unless, of course, they’re a public figure attempting to curry favour with the television station they work for. Naturally, the station likes to have people thinking that they’re relevant and contributing to society–by having their male on-air windbags grow hair.

Movember. It has to be the stupidest prank on men ever perpetrated.

Politics, Stupidity plain and simple

Arab Spring is alive and well in America

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I have to applaud the students at UC Davis for their non-violent response to the campus police who were attempting to clear a way through non-violent demonstrators. You’ll have to watch the entire 8-minute video to see what the students did to end up winning.

There’ll be a lot more winning before this is over. Unfortunately, there will be violence also, but not in this case. Here’s a link to the full salon.com article.

I particularly enjoyed UC Davis’ Chanceller Robert Birgenau’s confusion and abject ignorance over what constitutes non-violence. He too is so obviously afraid.

Thank you Ghandi, Rosa Parks, et al for your refusal to be quite literally beaten into submission.

Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis – YouTube

Politics

Arab spring and OWS

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The Arab spring has finally come home to roost in North America, and America in particular. I wonder how long it will take for nervous State politicians to call out the Guard?

I expect that local police Captains are anxious to put their shiny new tactical vehicles to work sweeping the streets of the riffraff as it accumulates. So far they appear to be showing remarkable restraint in that regard, but I wonder how long that restraint will last. You can’t equip a police department with all of those new toys, point them at massive citizen unrest, and not expect them to put the toys to what they would consider to be good use.

If the support and momentum for the demonstrations lasts throughout the winter, it should be very interesting times come spring.

Yes, I support the OWS demonstrators, most particularly in America. They need all the help they can get down there.

 

 

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