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Frustration

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Everything I’m reading about the implementation of list- and outline-numbering in Microsoft Word is leading me to believe that there is no practical way to implement a truly automated comic book writing template for that program. I may already have taken the project as far as it can go in Word. One article *on Microsoft’s […]

Weekly Weigh-In & Suicide Note #3

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Starting weight: 215 Previous weight: 205.5 Current weight: 219 (No, that’s not a typo; it’s the fucking prednisone. In one week, I *gained* 13.5 pounds. If my apartment weren’t on the first floor, I’d be jumping out a window right now.)

Comic Book Script Template, etc. Mostly etc.

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Very tired, so this will be short… The way to make the Word Comic Book Script Template work is, I think, with a list-numbering scheme. It’s both much simpler and more frustrating than I realized. The setup is a bit crazy, because list number styles in Word are apparently *document*-based rather than *template*-based. They don’t […]

Bad Diet Week

Monday, November 12th, 2007

One word: prednisone. Inflammation in the lungs. I’m dreading Wednesday morning’s encounter with the scale.

Word Comic Book Script Template — Progress?

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Maybe. The past few days, between pages and panels, I’ve been investigating an area of Microsoft Word that I never completely understood: its outlining and numbering functions. It was reassuring to discover that the *reason* I never understood these functions is that they operate in a very odd and anti-intuitive manner. They’re easy enough to […]

Weekly Weigh-In #2

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Starting weight: 215 Previous weight: 210 Current weight: 205.5 (These first pounds are the easy ones, of course. I’ll be astonished if the weight loss continues at this pace.)

COUNTDOWN TO MYSTERY #2 Is Out

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Have you read it? What did you think?

I Passed

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

The angiogram actually went normally. No new blockages. Nothing untoward. That *should* be the last obstacle to my getting on the transplant list. Phew. (BTW, my editors at DC are dubious about Killhead.) (YOU won’t be!) ( … ) (…most of you.)

11 Winks, Tops

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

All of Wednesday was consumed with a computer crisis. Solved, finally, I hope. Now it’s nap time, soon to be followed by the ever-popular wake-up-shave-shower-get-dressed-stagger-to-car-drive-to- hospital-get-catheter-shoved-up-groin-time. With luck, everything will go normally (yeah, right) and I’ll be released immediately after the procedure. Just in time for my therapy group. [NOTE: This concludes the “It’s All […]

All Hollowed Eve

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Boo to you, and happy anniversary to my ex. Think I’ll go fuck a ghost in celebration. (Nah, not on the eve of an angiogram. No candy corn, either. Gotta stay in training.)