I could've been sleeping too. Again, I have a PRN tech here training, and again, we have no patients. Luckily, Scott is perfectly contented studying for the boards, and I'm OK sitting here writing. Not very exciting, however.

On the other hand, excitement is vastly over-rated sometimes.

I'm again trying Word-perfect to write this, and I'm going to try to save it as a HTML file. The last time I tried this I lost it all, but I'm saving it as a .txt file first...

I'm curious to see how WP will handle the paragraphs, if at all. And I'm putting in a table or two, too.

I guess it'd be OK for some purposes, but it seems to be awfully clumsy. O'yeah, I'm back to notepad. There's no overhead here, anyway.

Actually, this is my second try at doing this with WP 7.0... the first time, it blew up, and I had to reboot the damned computer. I'm glad that I like MS Word. I was a WP afficionado for years before I got Win95 and Office95, and I made the switch. I've never looked back, seriously. The few times that I've tried WP, I've been disappointed or really pissed, depending on how much work I'd lost.

Most of my word processing does not require much from a word processor, however. At home, I use Notepad for 95% of what I do, which is mostly text for Nilknarf. The times that I use Word when I really need to are few and far between. I'm now using the '97 Word, which is quite a bit slicker, and if I were making a new site I would probably use it extensively.

Speaking of a new site... I've been thinking again about re-doing Nilknarf. No cosmetic changes this time, but the way it is right now, everything is just dumped into the same directory. I've got like 500+ files there... no big deal, because I have no problem finding anything... but I would like to organize things a little better, with separate directories for the journal, graphics, essays, etc. Eventually, I would imagine that the lag time for the server to find a file would probably increase, at least marginally.

Sometimes, I feel like I want to add some foo-foo graphics... you know, the ones that look pretty, but add nothing to the page. So far I've resisted, but I've seen some pretty neat ones lately. Sometimes the graphics add to the page just by being pretty, or original. If I really had an artistic bone in my body I could figger out the difference. As it is, I'm afraid to try. I already have people laughing at me for other legitimate reasons...

Every little once-in-a-while, I get some email out of the blue that really impresses me. Recently I received one from a girl that spent quite a bit of time convincing me not to smoke. Needless to say, it didn't work, but I sure do appreciate anyone's ideas on the subject. It remains, of course, an ego-booster to get any email of a personal nature.

To be frank (lin) about it, there are a lot of people who feel that my ego is oversized already, and they pointedly do not email me for that reason.

Then there's the one about the blonde (true story) who sued her pharmacist; he recommended contraceptive jelly, so she put it on her toast and ate it... and she got pregnant anyway.