Summing up...
Jan. 27th, 2016 05:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpOver at his blog, Tim Ferriss talks about Real Mind Control: The 21-Day No-Complaint Experiment.
(1) I am convinced—just a gut feeling, mind you—that there is something to this. Complaining about things is a non-productive activity (generally speaking), and people in the process of complaining make very poor company.
(2) That said—good heavens, but I do live in a "temptation rich" environment, as far as opportunites for complaint are concerned. <LOL>
In any event, if you read the above article, you'll know what I mean when I say "I had to move the bracelet today." And since there's absolutely no percentage in recounting what it was that caused me to fall off the, um, wagon, I won't do it.
* * * My translation progress over the past couple of days has been good and bad. Good, from the perspective of The Routine Stuff™; bad, from that of the job that I'm behind on, mostly because I find myself needing to look up so many terms, and more important, not finding any general agreement as to what they mean.
* * * Monday, I tracked a couple of anomalous events while using my computer to what I believe is a faulty wireless mouse. The specific behavior that caused me to utter language inappropriate for civilized society is easily explained by a flaky left mouse button, which proceeds to make-break-make-break despite my maintaining constant and firm pressure with my index finger. The result is the equivalent of my double-clicking like a mad hyena over anything I'm trying to drag.
I became aware of something being not right when I tried to drag-and-drop a file into an email, only to have some other file from the same directory attached to the email. Fortunately, the only price I paid there (twice, I might add) was having to resend the email with the correct file attached. A dollop of embarrassment, nothing more.
What really got my attention, however, occurred while trying to drag-and-drop a file from one directory to another in Windows Explorer. As I moved the mouse (and dragged file) to its destination, the cursor passed over a display of the several drives attached to my system, and somewhere along the way, the mouse reported that the left button had been "released," which deposited the file somewhere, with no good way of determining where.
It took me a while to track the thing down and get it moved to where it needed to go, let me tell you.
So I ordered a new mouse, which arrived today. It works fine, as you would expect, but via sheer serendipity, I am now able to use something called a 'clic bloc' that's marketed by Rhodia, which was not the case with my old mouse.
The 'clic bloc' is a pad of paper that's roughly the size of a mouse pad, and it has two adjacent rubberized edges, on the bottom and left when the pad is positioned with the product name "up." The paper is quadrilled, and sure comes in handy for little Notes That Must Be Made™ while working.
The funny thing is, my old mouse could not "see" the pad, which basically meant that sliding the mouse over the pad resulted in hardly any cursot movement on the screen. With the new mouse, however... the cursor moves just fine.
I've made some progress with work today, but now, I need to go take a break and get some exercise.
Cheers...
(1) I am convinced—just a gut feeling, mind you—that there is something to this. Complaining about things is a non-productive activity (generally speaking), and people in the process of complaining make very poor company.
(2) That said—good heavens, but I do live in a "temptation rich" environment, as far as opportunites for complaint are concerned. <LOL>
In any event, if you read the above article, you'll know what I mean when I say "I had to move the bracelet today." And since there's absolutely no percentage in recounting what it was that caused me to fall off the, um, wagon, I won't do it.
I became aware of something being not right when I tried to drag-and-drop a file into an email, only to have some other file from the same directory attached to the email. Fortunately, the only price I paid there (twice, I might add) was having to resend the email with the correct file attached. A dollop of embarrassment, nothing more.
What really got my attention, however, occurred while trying to drag-and-drop a file from one directory to another in Windows Explorer. As I moved the mouse (and dragged file) to its destination, the cursor passed over a display of the several drives attached to my system, and somewhere along the way, the mouse reported that the left button had been "released," which deposited the file somewhere, with no good way of determining where.
It took me a while to track the thing down and get it moved to where it needed to go, let me tell you.
So I ordered a new mouse, which arrived today. It works fine, as you would expect, but via sheer serendipity, I am now able to use something called a 'clic bloc' that's marketed by Rhodia, which was not the case with my old mouse.
The 'clic bloc' is a pad of paper that's roughly the size of a mouse pad, and it has two adjacent rubberized edges, on the bottom and left when the pad is positioned with the product name "up." The paper is quadrilled, and sure comes in handy for little Notes That Must Be Made™ while working.
The funny thing is, my old mouse could not "see" the pad, which basically meant that sliding the mouse over the pad resulted in hardly any cursot movement on the screen. With the new mouse, however... the cursor moves just fine.
I've made some progress with work today, but now, I need to go take a break and get some exercise.
Cheers...
