stupid microsoft
One thing about microsoft lately is that they update Internet Explorer relentlessly. Almost every week they hit you with new security upgrades and you never know what new problems these will introduce.
Don't talk to me about Firefox, okay? I hate Firefox. It's even more annoying than IE.
Lately IE won't let pages do anything. It's security settings, right? But something in the security settings is not apparently available for tweaking. I know, because I keep tweaking the settings to allow sites to do what they're supposed to do, and IE still won't let them do it. Well, if I go through the brief but tedious rigamarole of assigning every single page and subpage individually to the category of "trusted sites," I can get the internal search engines to work, most of the time, or the little scripty things that every web designer feels they must put at the center of their creation's functionality. But if I try to adjust the regular "internet" setting so that new pages will work like they're supposed to -- no. Whatever it is that makes the difference is not on the available list of things to tweak.
What pisses me off is that just now when I tried to search the University of California site for information about reading classes, I couldn't even get the ordinary table of contents to work until I had declared the site a "trusted site." Of course I trust the University of California. And I had even been there before -- but I had not had to do anything to get it to work last time. And then. It's not over! Every single page had to be declared trusted again -- apparently there are sub-domains or something going on -- and then!!! syndicated Google had to be declared trusted.
on another front, the hip/back pain thing has lasted a week and it's not at all amusing anymore. I have, apparently, two choices: do nothing at all for two days and have a pain-free day on the third day: or have excruciating pain from early in the morning, fading into normalcy by mid-day, and act like a normal person. The only drug available is acetaminophen -- I know, we went into this when I first started my current pain drugs, and theoretically I should be able to add on vicodin or ibuprofen to the gabapentin, but it doesn't seem to work that way when I also have other CNS and inflammation drugs going on at the same time. I'll be seeing the nice doctor man in the morning: meanwhile, I'm just getting on with life. I do, after all, seem to have subtly more energy (answering that question from last week), so I don't see why I shouldn't take advantage of it.
The dried peaches and peach leather came out wonderfully. I didn't expect a whole lot, because usually dried peaches are really not as good as dried apricots, but apparently the thin thin slices and the fact that the peaches were windfalls, not perfect, gave them that little edge. The peach leather is gorgeous.
I don't know how I'm going to get any writing done today. I can't think straight right now. If I start to think about anything, pretty soon I'm thinking about discomfort again. It's getting better, but it's only two hours before I have to be at work.
Don't talk to me about Firefox, okay? I hate Firefox. It's even more annoying than IE.
Lately IE won't let pages do anything. It's security settings, right? But something in the security settings is not apparently available for tweaking. I know, because I keep tweaking the settings to allow sites to do what they're supposed to do, and IE still won't let them do it. Well, if I go through the brief but tedious rigamarole of assigning every single page and subpage individually to the category of "trusted sites," I can get the internal search engines to work, most of the time, or the little scripty things that every web designer feels they must put at the center of their creation's functionality. But if I try to adjust the regular "internet" setting so that new pages will work like they're supposed to -- no. Whatever it is that makes the difference is not on the available list of things to tweak.
What pisses me off is that just now when I tried to search the University of California site for information about reading classes, I couldn't even get the ordinary table of contents to work until I had declared the site a "trusted site." Of course I trust the University of California. And I had even been there before -- but I had not had to do anything to get it to work last time. And then. It's not over! Every single page had to be declared trusted again -- apparently there are sub-domains or something going on -- and then!!! syndicated Google had to be declared trusted.
on another front, the hip/back pain thing has lasted a week and it's not at all amusing anymore. I have, apparently, two choices: do nothing at all for two days and have a pain-free day on the third day: or have excruciating pain from early in the morning, fading into normalcy by mid-day, and act like a normal person. The only drug available is acetaminophen -- I know, we went into this when I first started my current pain drugs, and theoretically I should be able to add on vicodin or ibuprofen to the gabapentin, but it doesn't seem to work that way when I also have other CNS and inflammation drugs going on at the same time. I'll be seeing the nice doctor man in the morning: meanwhile, I'm just getting on with life. I do, after all, seem to have subtly more energy (answering that question from last week), so I don't see why I shouldn't take advantage of it.
The dried peaches and peach leather came out wonderfully. I didn't expect a whole lot, because usually dried peaches are really not as good as dried apricots, but apparently the thin thin slices and the fact that the peaches were windfalls, not perfect, gave them that little edge. The peach leather is gorgeous.
I don't know how I'm going to get any writing done today. I can't think straight right now. If I start to think about anything, pretty soon I'm thinking about discomfort again. It's getting better, but it's only two hours before I have to be at work.