Boing!

I've spent all day re-creating a Visio file of our squad's logo. When I tried to save it as a .jpg, it wouldn't make the background transparent (it should only be the circle). When I try to save it as a .gif, it makes the background transparent -- but it also makes the inner circle transparent (rimmed in red, with the triangle inside it).

I've checked and that circle is filled with white & it's solid -- when I view it as a .vsd, it's opaque.

Anyone know how I should be saving this, so it will look all pretty and stuff? (Never mind that it's an ugly logo; I didn't design it.) :)

TIA!

Anyone have any insight as to why some of the email I'm getting is timestamped correctly, and others are timestamped 12 hours in the future?

I've checked my computer's date/time settings, and they're correct (and confirm with the Big Clock In The Sky as well).

(Outlook 2003 SP2, on Windows XP)

I've recently reloaded my mouse drivers because it was seizing up. It still seizes up, but I found a way around it.

Problem is, it's a two button mouse with a click wheel, and I used to have it set so that if I clicked a link with the wheel (within Firefox), it would open the link in a new tab.

Can anyone point me (get it? MOUSE JOKE!! okay, not a funny one) to fixing it?

I finally caught up with a Sprint technician who walked me through the email in my box until we located the culprit -- an all-html email sent out by Renaissance Magazine was causing my Business Connection to fail. (Business Connection is the app that looks at whatever's in my Outlook at the time, and allows me to delete emails or reply to them on my phone, but also makes those changes on my computer.)

Once that was fixed, I mentioned that there was an erroneous calendar entry on my phone that *didn't* show up on my Outlook -- we work a duty shift every other Sunday, and this was indicating that we also had duty shifts on the Sundays that we *don't* work. It turns out that while Outlook displays the recurring appointments correctly, every other week, Business Connection displays them every week. This is especially weird considering that I have the same thing set up for our every-other-Friday shifts, and those display correctly both in Outlook and Business Connection.

So. I found a bug! That and a few bucks will get me a cherry limeade at Sonic.

My boss wants a slide that will introduce new information when he clicks on it. Should I build separate slides that add the information progressively, or is it a macroey thing on one slide?

Never done this before; hate PPT.

EDIT:
I built it as 5 separate slides, so he can run the whole thing as a slideshow. We don't typically hand out booklets, so that's not a problem. Am waiting on feedback from him now.

Thanks for the hand!

How sad is it that I am so tired that I would rather run a module I know to be coded incorrectly and manually find and fix the errors later, than to dig through the coding and fix it?

I'm back out on the porch this morning, blinking at the brightness of the light, and enjoying the current just-rightness of the temperature. I expect I'll be changing into less substantial clothing as things heat up -- we're slated for 87 degrees today. I'm hopeful actual Spring is here, instead of that stupid fake Spring that just frustrates everyone. I saw our first robins in JANUARY, for pete's sake, so it's about time.

Saturday I flung myself in a northerly direction, and (crap -- my "N" key just popped off...will fiish later oce I figure that shit out -- help is appreciated)

Edit: A little Krazy Glue later, and I have an N key again. I'm like MacGyver over here -- next, I will fly a plane using only a paperclip, a bag of flour, and a ferret.

Saturday, I flung myself in a northerly direction, and managed to miss most traffic on my way to mydwynter's house to rehearse (hang on, doorbell. hello, $1000 from Killian's sweepstakes! where was I?) for a most-of-the-Cups event that queenmaggie was kind enough to recommend us for. (yes. that's a preposition there at the end of that sentence. and I don't care, la la laaaaaaa!) We came up with a good list of singable songs, some with teachable choruses, some that will transition nicely into new repetoire. And there was giggling and cat loving and cookie eating and Hugh Laurie admiring, and then I stole her Firefly DVDs.

The return trip was mostly uneventful until I was on the home stretch to discover that all of the lanes on 95 were closed, so now I know more sideroads in my squad's district, which is always a handy thing.

Sunday I decided that it was not only within my grasp but also my mandate to do fuck-all, so I lazed on the porch with Mr. The Dog, with a few frisbee breaks, and we were joined by Dana when he came home from a particularly patient-rich stint at the hospital, so HE was happy. We got to the squad an hour early (to discover that the previous crew had just marked down their unit, and rather than thank us for coming in to relieve them, got all snitty that we were less-than-impressed by their work ethic), marked up a unit, and were sent out on a call that someone else squirreled from us before we could pull all the way out of the bay. Our next call waited until we were just done with dinner, which was very considerate, and the patient was pleasant and talkative and rational, which almost NEVER happens, and then we had no calls until morning. I got my QA paperwork out of the way for the month, and we made some good decisions about how our forms need to adapt and what we'll need to address first.

The End. Or "To Be Continued." Or something.

I have much to blather about, but there are two things I have to get out of the way and then I can proceed.

1. Hagen's hips are rated "a-normal"!!! He's fabulous, he's wonderful, I can stop worrying. (more on that later)

2. I have a new computer, so now I begin the process of changing everything to my settings. In Firefox, I have no right scroll bar -- I can scroll using the mouse wheel, but no handy bar to click on. Anyone have this problem, or know how I can fix it?

EDIT: Okay, I've found the Firefox problem -- there's something wrong with my theme installation (Pimpzilla, for any of y'all wanting to roll like me). It didn't have this problem on my other computer, so I'll contact the author and see what they say.

To sum up:

1. WHEEEEEEEEE.

2. Not a problem after all.