You may have noticed lately that I haven't been blogging as much as before. This is not because I have been ignoring the Reilly Cemetery-- far from it. I've been writing up my report. Day after day, map after map, page after ever loving page-- it's slowly coming together. I was such a dedicated student (insert halo here) that I even took my laptop and my materials to the cottage this weekend so I could keep working away. I've sent off two drafts to my respective and respected profs for their comment but being me, I don't wait, I keep on working away. The tome has grown, it could be used as a door stop or a speed bump in a busy parking lot.
Today I was working away, doing the detail stuff that drives everyone crazy like generating tables of contents and labelling figures. Fun wow. Oh yeah, and proof reading...I think I'm going blind and you can bet I will have missed some stuff because after a while you don't see the mistakes. Anyways, it was coming along swimmingly. Tables were generated, labels affixed, spell check and proof reading done, and I printed the sucker (in black and white to save ink). The printed copy turned out great.
But, (have I mentioned I'm a technodolt?) somehow I managed to make the whole file go *POOF* and blowed if I know where the hell it went. I looked, I screeched a little. I said a few naughty words. Then I grabbed my recently printed version, found the last version I had and redid two days work. The tables have been re done, the labels re affixed and the proof re reading can bloody well wait until I can see again (tomorrow). The file has been saved and will be sent off site and out of this particular blasted computer for safe keeping, and so I don't have to do THAT again.
Live and learn and curse a little every now and then. I mess up therefore I am. Does anyone know how to say that in Latin? It could be my new motto.
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