More practice at live journal use
I recently met the world's most talking person. Sort of a combo of Summer's mom and Will's dad, times 3 or 4.
She doesn't complete sentences and generally seems unable to focus on a topic for more than a few seconds. I never know what she is actually talking about, barely know what she is alluding to, and I often can't understand her words because she talks so fast and relatively softly.
She goes a mile a minute and I have yet to see her stop a "conversation." (The joke is that it isn't a conversation at all, she just talks, talks, talks -- never a pause long enough to even allow for an interruption.) Of course, these "conversations" do end. People call to me from the other room, or come drag me off, or her.
She is a person with some stature in the organization I am now working for, and I hate to be overtly rude to her by just waving and walking away. How can anyone get any work done? How can anyone stand her? I was reeling by the time I left (after 6 hours in the building).
I went home and spent a couple of hours in my forest digging thistles and enjoying the fresh cool (& quiet) air. But now my hands smell like skunk. How did that happen? You'd think I'd have noticed if I'd met up with one.
I need to figure out how to transfer the contents of an AOL address book into an Outlook Express address book. This is needed for the boss. She's never used Outlook Express before (I have only barely) and she is quite computer illiterate. Her Outlook Express address book is totally empty, and she is supposed to be in contact with several hundred people in the next 6 weeks as she plans a very large public event. (Well, it is supposed to be very large....)
She asked for my help a few times today because she didn't know how to do multiple attachments to email. With luck, she does now.
I have come up with 2 different methods to do this transfer, but one ends up doing dragon drops for each name and each email address in the aol book. The other uses Outlook's import wizard, after I do some minor manipulation of the data through Excel and change it to a .csv file (comma separated values file), but that moves only the addresses, not the names. The first option requires access to the aol.com web-based address book, but for some reason mine (I was practicing with it) seems to be broken. If I *could* re-access it, I might be able to come up with a third plan that combines the first two. Too late tonight. Maybe AOL will fix itself.
She doesn't complete sentences and generally seems unable to focus on a topic for more than a few seconds. I never know what she is actually talking about, barely know what she is alluding to, and I often can't understand her words because she talks so fast and relatively softly.
She goes a mile a minute and I have yet to see her stop a "conversation." (The joke is that it isn't a conversation at all, she just talks, talks, talks -- never a pause long enough to even allow for an interruption.) Of course, these "conversations" do end. People call to me from the other room, or come drag me off, or her.
She is a person with some stature in the organization I am now working for, and I hate to be overtly rude to her by just waving and walking away. How can anyone get any work done? How can anyone stand her? I was reeling by the time I left (after 6 hours in the building).
I went home and spent a couple of hours in my forest digging thistles and enjoying the fresh cool (& quiet) air. But now my hands smell like skunk. How did that happen? You'd think I'd have noticed if I'd met up with one.
I need to figure out how to transfer the contents of an AOL address book into an Outlook Express address book. This is needed for the boss. She's never used Outlook Express before (I have only barely) and she is quite computer illiterate. Her Outlook Express address book is totally empty, and she is supposed to be in contact with several hundred people in the next 6 weeks as she plans a very large public event. (Well, it is supposed to be very large....)
She asked for my help a few times today because she didn't know how to do multiple attachments to email. With luck, she does now.
I have come up with 2 different methods to do this transfer, but one ends up doing dragon drops for each name and each email address in the aol book. The other uses Outlook's import wizard, after I do some minor manipulation of the data through Excel and change it to a .csv file (comma separated values file), but that moves only the addresses, not the names. The first option requires access to the aol.com web-based address book, but for some reason mine (I was practicing with it) seems to be broken. If I *could* re-access it, I might be able to come up with a third plan that combines the first two. Too late tonight. Maybe AOL will fix itself.