Still editing Maggie. Mad respect to Stephanie, our editor, for sticking with this and seeing the potential there, because right now I’m slightly embarrassed at having turned in such crappy draft before. Onto more important matters. Microsoft snuck AI into the latest version of Word. By default Microsoft sits there and scans all of your
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Welcome to the Spamily
About three days ago I was CC’ed on a spam email. We all know what to do with spam. We ignore it, and it gets auto deleted. The people who were also CC’ed on this spam apparently didn’t know this. Instead they responded to the spam via Reply All. That reply then went to the
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Computer Oy and Other Stuff
Turn the sound up. It’s not the case fans. I have cleaned everything and tested them. It’s running hot, too, and I am doing zip right now, except accessing the internet. So. Distracting. Like nails on a chalkboard. I can hear it through headphones. It’s making it really hard to concentrate. Oy. In happier news,
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Still No Computer
::walks back and forth:: The good news is that I have followed up on all of the business emails. The bad news is that the computer still hasn’t been delivered. Come on, Amazon. We have arranged an electric inspection. Thank you to everyone who commented on the previous post offering suggestions. We’ll screening the trench
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Ryder Toward the End of the Week
According to my husband, this is me and my plants in Texas. So we’ve hit a bit of a delay writing-wise. We’ve been remodeling the office, and stuff has piled up, and now on top of everything else, we need a new work computer because the old computer is no more. I spent Monday calling
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Customer Service
Opening MS Word Office support window. Customer service rep: Hello, how may I help you? Me, very annoyed: Hello. MS Word refuses to recognize the custom installed font. CSR: Have you checked if the font is installed on the system? Me: Yes. Windows sees the font and renders it appropriately. MS Word sees the font,
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Socuments and Dropbox Hate
We changed computers – ours were old – and I had to reinstall the Dropbox to get all of our documents. The computer has a dual drive, C for the operating system and D with much larger capacity for everything else. Me: Download Dropbox to D drive. Dropbox: Okay! Me: Install dropbox. Dropbox: Okay! I
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