Vacation - Day Two.

.....Today wasn't quite as productive as yesterday. Actually, a little more frustrating.

.....I succumbed once again to the lure of 'The West Wing' for two hours this morning. That show is insidious. :-) Then I kicked myself and got on to the computer. Did at least four pieces of Seneschal business, which made me start feeling productive again.

.....Then I started trying to mess with the latest update of the Baronial Directory. Ack!

.....THL Anne did a monumental job of updating the directory earlier this year. I printed up a number of copies and announced it at a Business Meeting or two. But didn't get a lot of takers. But with so many other things happening over the summer, I didn't advertise nearly as well as I should have. A couple of people asked me over the past month about when the updated Directory was going to actually come out and they were surprised when I let them know that I passed out copies over the summer. At least three people asked for copies as soon as I could get them made and delivered.

.....So I opened up the Directory and started to see about making copies. This is when I noticed that some of the Officer information was already out of date. So I decided that I would dump everything into Publisher and see about a.) updating the information, and b.) reformatting to save space and make the Directory look uniform.

.....That is when the fight started. My version of Word is from 2000. Microsoft has stopped releasing updates to it and it does not like working with Microsoft Windows XP anymore. Ack! I could not get the Directory to come up complete in Word to save my life. I finally was able to open it up in WordPad so I could copy and paste into Publisher, which is also ancient. I probably should just bite the bullet and dump it all into Pagemaker and at least enter the decade, if not 2009.

.....But by the time I was able to pull something up on which I could actually move forward four hours had passed and it was time to start getting ready for Fight Practice. How humiliating and frustrating. I'm getting old and outdated! Ack! Waaaaa!!!!!!! :-)

.....Time to seriously start thinking of upgrading the damned computer and its contents and enter the 21st Century. :-)

.....Next in the queue starting tomorrow:
* Start Discussion On The Baronial Customary.
* Update the Western Regional Pelican Notes and Database With Collected Information.
* Finish E-Mails and Phone Conversations With Potential September Crown Site Owners.
* Actually FINISH the Baronial Directory.
* Clean The Computer Room.
* Clean Bathroom.

.....That's enough for one day. I had been thinking of going to Olympic Hot Springs, but the weather does not look all that great for Wednesday. Maybe on Thursday.

.....Time to start wrapping up Fight Practice.

.....Also, if anyone ever figures out who mis-treated Angharad, we need to get together a discussion committee for said individual. I'm still steamed about that. Grrrr.

.....Aaron / Arontius.