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Writing: Well; could have
been better. I’ve been continuing with the curating of the diary entries, as I
need to have them copied to a single file, so I can highlight and extract the
relevant sections. But, in their weird wisdom, Microsoft seem to think that a
date in a document should automatically change to the date the document is
edited. Why they think that, I can’t imagine. In fact, I’m finding it hard to
think of any circumstances in which it would be helpful to have a pre-existing
date automatically change to the current date in any document. No doubt someone
will enlighten me.
The point is, that in
copying the documents over to a single file, all the entry dates changed to the
date of copying. Something I hadn’t noticed at the time. This meant, of course,
that I had to start again. Fortunately, I still have the original documents!
But how to preserve the dates of the diary entries?
I use a desktop iMac with
MS Word, because I’m familiar with that word processor. It took a while to
discover how I could ensure the dates didn’t alter. A blend of highlighting the
date and then pressing a combination of the ‘fn’, ‘cmd’ and ‘f11’ keys. But, of
course, this has to be done for every date and can’t be applied to the whole
document! Now, there’s a really helpful user-friendly solution. Do you think
programmers make these things deliberately obtuse so that we are all left in
the dark to struggle, and therefore made to believe they are somehow clever?
Surely, any programmer worth his salt (and I use the male pronoun advisedly)
could devise a way of preserving all dates in a document with a couple of
keystrokes?
Anyway, the outcome is
that I am still in the process of amending all the dates in the diaries before
I can even start the proper curating. Oh, good!
Running: This week I was
supposed to do 2 sessions of 10 minute running followed by a session of 15
minute running today. I managed my Monday run with no problem. However…
At the moment, we’re in
the process of moving house and the packing has begun. Last week, the seal on
the washing machine decided to split so, as it’s insured, we had an engineer
booked to fix it. The washing machine stands in a corner with a tumbler dryer
atop. In order to get to the back of washing machine, so he could change the
seal, I had to lift the tumbler dryer off the top of the washer. No problem:
it’s bulky and awkward, but not particularly heavy.
Turns out I didn’t need to
lift it off; the job could be done from the front! No matter. I’d done it. When
the man left, I decided to replace the tumbler dryer. Mistake. My back went. I
have a slight weakness, which manifests itself from time to time in severe pain
for a couple of days after an event followed by a period of delicate necessity.
So, no running until next
week!
