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September again
12 years ago
General
and once more another year closer to the grave (my 56th occurs in less than three weeks). The Continuing Crisis regarding my numb toes and crunched sciatic nerve seems to be abating and not a moment too soon. This course of cortisone seems to be doing the trick, and I'm starting to walk almost normally at intervals again. Yay for me.
After a long interval of idleness here I've posted a half dozen or so stray pieces in my Gallery and Scraps sections here. One perhaps noticeable thing about them is that several were scanned, not on my crusty old HP scanner, but on a Lexmark all-in-one scanner-printer which seems to have a distinctly different style. The old HP showed every smudge and erased mark; the Lexmark shows gray and black as light blue, which meant I had to do some tinkering in Corel PhotoPaint before they could be ready for showtime. I would have used the HP for all of them but the Linux box it's attached to is being a butthead , i.e., the cursor has started a habit of suddenly darting down to the lower left corner of the screen, usually when I'm attempting to do something that requires its presence elsewhere. Annoying, to say the least. Ah, well, someday Linux will be just as good as Windows 98 and there will be great rejoicing.
After a long interval of idleness here I've posted a half dozen or so stray pieces in my Gallery and Scraps sections here. One perhaps noticeable thing about them is that several were scanned, not on my crusty old HP scanner, but on a Lexmark all-in-one scanner-printer which seems to have a distinctly different style. The old HP showed every smudge and erased mark; the Lexmark shows gray and black as light blue, which meant I had to do some tinkering in Corel PhotoPaint before they could be ready for showtime. I would have used the HP for all of them but the Linux box it's attached to is being a butthead , i.e., the cursor has started a habit of suddenly darting down to the lower left corner of the screen, usually when I'm attempting to do something that requires its presence elsewhere. Annoying, to say the least. Ah, well, someday Linux will be just as good as Windows 98 and there will be great rejoicing.
I am having problems with some of my hardware, there are two keyboards with dead keys sitting aside, and several mice that don't navigate very well. OTOH I have two IBM Model M keyboards that do work, but for some reason are not in use at present. And a box of Apple keyboards & mice in the living room. Ah, well...