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Last-minute frenzy...
Jul. 1st, 2008 09:49 pm...and it isn't even the last minute!
Though perhaps I should have been acting is it was the last minute starting a few days ago. First up today was submittal of an overdue expense report, made ever more urgent because the charge for lodging - which had been picked up the client last time - had been put on my Amex card. Next, I filed an overdue annual report for my LLC (hefty late fee... ouch!). Next, Galina and I hunted down a notary and signed some papers that needed signing and FedExing.
It turns out my Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8.0 doesn't work under Vista, nor does the Strobe XP100 scanner. The former really isn't an important part of my "road warrior" ethic; the latter has been an important component. However, now that I have a "real" PDF program (i.e., one that allows manipulation instead of just viewing), I probably don't have to scan as many documents, since usually the reason for the scan is to capture my signature, and I can apply a signature from inside the program (Nitro PDF Professional).
In related news, I've printed every kind of list imaginable from the Intuit InvoiceManger, as I have resolved to move my "accounting" over to TurboCash. One of the major reasons for this is that dealing with the Intuit program is a one-way street: you can enter data, but not get it back out (short of printing it and then re-keying it somewhere else) without turning to third parties and forking over additional cash.
Activating Office 2007 on hammer was not as easy as it looked, and I'm beginning to believe the best way to find something at the Microsoft web site is to go through Google. In the end, I had to register for something called LiveID, if memory serves. In any event, the trial is supposed to be for 60 days, but the dialog box that popped up at the end of the procedure says it expires on September 30, 2008. Go figure.
I'll be leaving webster here for Galina to use, but to be on the safe side, I'm backing up the contents of the hard drive (68 GB, approximately). A second process is copying recent files from my work directory to a USB drive, which I'll be transferring to hammer.
I had left my iPod in New York, and it turns out Galina brought it along. I had originally intended to take it, and to take it to Baikonur, but eventually made peace with the idea of taking the Sansa e260, despite the latter's smaller capacity. For one thing, I can always load the Sansa with what I want to listen to. Second, it "understands" Audible files with their confounded DRM (though that may become a moot point, as I am seriously considering terminating my subscription in response to their asinine reply to my note of a little while back). Third, I can make on-the-fly recordings with the unit, which is always a handy capability to have.
Some time ago, Galina was "hooked" into signing up with one of those credit monitoring deals, and it's starting to look like the only way to make the cretins stop taking money for a service we don't want is to close our bank account and reopen it with another number. I called their "customer service" number today and the choice for canceling your membership doesn't answer (not that they actually cancel your membership, dig?). The outfit we're dealing with announces themselves as the "Credit Experts" in their opening spiel.
In other news, today was another up-at-4-am kind of day, and though I feel pretty good about now, I did take a 90-minute nap in the late afternoon.
Frenzy items for tomorrow include a stop at the insurance agent's office and the vet's office to pick up heartworm preventer. Albuquerque looms in the late afternoon or evening.
Cheers...
Though perhaps I should have been acting is it was the last minute starting a few days ago. First up today was submittal of an overdue expense report, made ever more urgent because the charge for lodging - which had been picked up the client last time - had been put on my Amex card. Next, I filed an overdue annual report for my LLC (hefty late fee... ouch!). Next, Galina and I hunted down a notary and signed some papers that needed signing and FedExing.
It turns out my Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8.0 doesn't work under Vista, nor does the Strobe XP100 scanner. The former really isn't an important part of my "road warrior" ethic; the latter has been an important component. However, now that I have a "real" PDF program (i.e., one that allows manipulation instead of just viewing), I probably don't have to scan as many documents, since usually the reason for the scan is to capture my signature, and I can apply a signature from inside the program (Nitro PDF Professional).
In related news, I've printed every kind of list imaginable from the Intuit InvoiceManger, as I have resolved to move my "accounting" over to TurboCash. One of the major reasons for this is that dealing with the Intuit program is a one-way street: you can enter data, but not get it back out (short of printing it and then re-keying it somewhere else) without turning to third parties and forking over additional cash.
Activating Office 2007 on hammer was not as easy as it looked, and I'm beginning to believe the best way to find something at the Microsoft web site is to go through Google. In the end, I had to register for something called LiveID, if memory serves. In any event, the trial is supposed to be for 60 days, but the dialog box that popped up at the end of the procedure says it expires on September 30, 2008. Go figure.
I'll be leaving webster here for Galina to use, but to be on the safe side, I'm backing up the contents of the hard drive (68 GB, approximately). A second process is copying recent files from my work directory to a USB drive, which I'll be transferring to hammer.
I had left my iPod in New York, and it turns out Galina brought it along. I had originally intended to take it, and to take it to Baikonur, but eventually made peace with the idea of taking the Sansa e260, despite the latter's smaller capacity. For one thing, I can always load the Sansa with what I want to listen to. Second, it "understands" Audible files with their confounded DRM (though that may become a moot point, as I am seriously considering terminating my subscription in response to their asinine reply to my note of a little while back). Third, I can make on-the-fly recordings with the unit, which is always a handy capability to have.
Some time ago, Galina was "hooked" into signing up with one of those credit monitoring deals, and it's starting to look like the only way to make the cretins stop taking money for a service we don't want is to close our bank account and reopen it with another number. I called their "customer service" number today and the choice for canceling your membership doesn't answer (not that they actually cancel your membership, dig?). The outfit we're dealing with announces themselves as the "Credit Experts" in their opening spiel.
In other news, today was another up-at-4-am kind of day, and though I feel pretty good about now, I did take a 90-minute nap in the late afternoon.
Frenzy items for tomorrow include a stop at the insurance agent's office and the vet's office to pick up heartworm preventer. Albuquerque looms in the late afternoon or evening.
Cheers...
