alonewiththemoon | Oct. 26th, 2007

I emailed myself my Raks Spooki postcard flyer last night so that I could send it to the Arlington print shop from my home computer, only to discover that I am apparently now running an older edition of Publisher at home than I am in the office, so it wouldn't open. And now I am finding that Publisher doesn't want to open at all on my work computer. This is troublesome as I rather need to print some flyers asap. I suppose I could always stick the file on a cd and bring it to the print shop, though they'll charge me more for that than if I sent it to them online. Unfortunately the Arlington place relies on print drivers to spool jobs so I need to be able to open the file to send it to them. There is a nearby Kinkos, but if you send them anything but a pdf file, while they will convert it you then no longer have the option of viewing the final set up before committing to print, and I don't like that. Update: I managed to open Publisher in safe mode and save as an earlier version, so I'll try mailing it to myself again tonight. Why is technology so needlessly complex sometimes?

My train broke down this morning; I could hear the radio dispatches from where I was sitting and either two cars spontaneously unhooked themselves or one car jumped the tracks. I do hope Badriya Z is not in retrograde again.

Today's BPAL is Othello: "Arabian musk with two roses and a bevy of Middle Eastern and Indian spices." That will teach me to put on a freebie without reading its description first. It is pretty appealing as rose scents go, and the rose is well balanced with the other elements, but it's still not at all me. Straight to the sale pile.