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<\/p> <\/p>\nChaos Manor View, Wednesday, September 16, 2015 <\/p>\n
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I\u2019m doing this from the back room before I go to bed. Swan seems to be working well, but it\u2019s also Windows 10. So far so good. <\/p>\n
Today was story conference day, and it was a bit stormy but productive. I think we are on track now; there was in the plot a pacing error \u2013 I think it was, anyway. Important things happened while our main characters could not be on stage; I think we fixed that. And we sure have some great aliens, and a powerful story line. <\/p>\n
Had a good talk over lunch, and it was a good lunch. Came home to find the next Logitech K360 keyboard had come, and I took it upstairs to install. That went easily, but Word is driving me nuts. It\u2019s trivial, and hardly affects what I write in the fiction station, but it annoys me. Does anyone know \u2013 know \u2013 how to set up and control Word 2010? Particularly autocomplete? I have 2013 on this machine, and I\u2019ll play with that later, but upstairs is an older Word. And when I I was up there I\u2019d do F1 for help, and it tells me to do things that aren\u2019t possible \u2013 it gives me commands that aren\u2019t where they are said to be. Often where they were on an older version, but not now. Specifically, when I try to set up autocomplete I\u2019m told to go to Insert on the ribbon and select autocomplete; but autocomplete isn\u2019t there. Another time it tells me to go to File \/ Tools, but there is no tools there, only options. I know you can set Word so that when you type in the first few letter of the day of the week it offers to complete it if you press return, and if you type in Wednesday comma it offers to complete that to Wednesday, September 16, 2015; Word 2013 just did that although I didn\u2019t turn the feature on, and I don\u2019t know how to control it; I\u2019ll experiment later. But it\u2019s sure frustrating. <\/p>\n
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The debates were fairly dull. No one did brilliantly, but no one came off badly. Trump continued to be the man who would change things because they are now broken, and even if he doesn\u2019t know exactly how, he gives the impression that he\u2019d go in the right direction \u2013 less government. Get rid of it if it\u2019s not obviously doing good, fund defense and less funding for entitlements. Eight years of hope and change have given us a huge debt and we still have bunny inspectors, and we are never going to get rid of them despite Obama\u2019s promise of laser like line inspection of appropriation. The answer to anything is more regulation and more government supervision; we\u2019d do well to have some one who sees it the other way, automatically stop doing it if you can\u2019t show the good. Stop borrowing money to pay bunny inspectors and offices full of regulators thinking up new reasons why you don\u2019t want to hire anyone — but that\u2019s sort of a dream, isn\u2019t it? But I don\u2019t see anyone up there who would go through those offices saying \u201cYou\u2019re Fired!\u201d except Trump. And who\u2019d build am actual wall. He may be a clown \u2013 they all say he is \u2013 but he might actually do something. It\u2019s for sure the Speaker and the Majority Leader and the Whips, and the Chairmen and all the country club Republicans won\u2019t DO anything and generally won\u2019t even talk about it. Obama promised the Left lots of Hope and Change, and he\u2019s doing it at enormous cost \u2013 each of you, every one of you \u2013 owes the government 5% of everything you make for the next 20 years, and that\u2019s for debt, not for running the government. <\/p>\n
But of course nobody\u2019s going to elect Trump. And the Republicans will find a new Bob Dole for us. <\/p>\n
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