{"id":4183,"date":"2010-07-19T21:57:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2010-07-19T21:57:50","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T01:57:50","slug":"scrambled-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4183","title":{"rendered":"Scrambled eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My father called me at work this morning to let me know that an old friend of the family (and one-time neighbor) had passed away and was being waked this evening. This now makes three wakes I’ve attended in as many weeks, and I think I’d appreciate if people we know would stop dying for a little while. It’s all getting to be a little too sad.<\/p>\n

In this case, he’d been sick for quite a long time, and it was largely a mercy at the end. My mother, who sees his wife more often through church, is going to the funeral tomorrow morning.<\/p>\n

Otherwise, not much to report. I spent the day wading through PowerPoint slides that I agreed to proofread on Friday. And I’m rediscovering why I hate proofreading PowerPoint slides, and moreover just how time-consuming it can be. I never thought I’d actual miss<\/i> Microsoft’s grammar check. (Seriously, why isn’t<\/i> there a grammar check in PowerPoint? And, while I’m on the subject, why can’t you “close group” when multiple PowerPoint files are open? Or Excel files? Or open two Excel files of the same name? Or open another Excel document if you don’t first save the first? In other words, why is MS Office so dumb?) These slides also have lots of notes attached, so I have to read through those as well. I think I can finish by tomorrow, after which I’ll forward them to the UK…assuming our e-mail is still working at that point. It’s been pretty iffy lately, thanks to some kind of problem on the server end in Florida. As the IT guy told me this morning, the server is still “scrambled eggs.”<\/p>\n

At least I got to leave at 5 this afternoon instead of 5:15. (I got in at 8:15.) These summer hours are a whole lot less fun when it isn’t Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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