alexpgp | Moving to a new machine...

Among the "tasks that shouldn't be" associated with moving from one machine to another is having to root around in various folders to find things like custom dictionaries, templates, and so on that are used with Microsoft Word.

I did all that that yesterday, and over the course of doing so, made some pretty sharp remarks under my breath concerning the fact that, over the life of this application—and I've been using Word since at least 1988, which is a quarter of a century, for crying out loud—no organic feature has been included that allows one to pack up one's Word configuration from one machine so as to be able to set it up on another. (On the other hand, I currently have an entire ribbon tab devoted to "Mailings," which I have not used ever.)

I've begun to use one of the custom settings on my "Excalibur" game timer (basically a chess clock, which has two buttons and two downward-counting time displays) to create a "pomodoro" timer, with 25 minutes on one side and 5 minutes on the other. (In truth, one could even play a game of chess "at odds" with such a time control, allowing one player—presumably the weaker one—25 minutes of thinking time and the second player only five.)

I've been using it to chop away at the long-deadline piece whose deadline is no longer very long, but whose subject matter at times makes me want to do anything other than translate... as evidenced by this post, I might add.

I've "overstepped" the five-minute rest period.

I will continue to make hash of the pomodoro method for another few minutes of actual rest, and then...back to the face!