Won't do that again in a hurry. Had a chilli dish for dinner, normally I restrict such things to lunch. Woken with a nasty episode of gastric reflux some five hours later. I've got some antacids working & will follow them up with some yogurt. Its calcium content provided extra relief.
Retired the 2400 watt electric kettle to the spare stuff department in the garage. It takes longer to boil water than the induction cooktop does when set to 2100 watts.
There's something nicely bracing about starting the day with a V60-brewed coffee. Strong but smooooth.
Just spent the last 2 hours online, preparing a crossword for the Mac User Group's monthly magazine. It's done via Crosswordlabs.com. In their web app, enter the clue, space, then the answer and go to the next line. When you have enough clues, save a passwrd so you can get to the answers later. Next, hit the Generate button. A crossword grid with your clues is displayed. Keep hitting the Regenerate button until a suitable pattern is shown.
Next, I saved the URL of the page as a bookmark and exported both the clues and the answers as PDFs.
The Clues is a blank grid, so I used Markup to annotate the intersecting rows and columns with common letters. These puzzles can be completed online but I'm not sure if one person's changes are common to all future versions of the puzzle.
@matigo I disagree. They should be anally raped with a coarse sandpaper-covered baseball bat then boiled in oil while still alive.
I have strong feelings on this matter.
I lashed out today and bought another mobile phone to use as a spare. I have also spent $15 for calls & data for that phone, it has a useful 12 month expiry period. It actually has $22 of credit because in the preceding 12 months, I used $23 out of a $30 credit. The unused credit was rolled over into the next 12 month period.
Totally disgusted with the inoperable digital camera I bought on eBay. I also had to pay an excess postage charge because the seller sent it via express post but only paid the standard charge. I've let him know (nicely) of my concerns, if nothing happens by Tuesday, I'll escalate the issue with eBay.
Either way, this scumbag's 100% satisfaction rating on eBay will get a hammering. CUNT.
Crunch time for iur Mac User Group. We can't (at present) stay ahead of our costs. The only way to keep going past Xmas will be to change the way the monthly magazine is delivered. The options are: print one every second month or stop the printing altogether & just use the colour PDF form. Printing costs around $2300 per month & mailing them is $500 more. We're losing about $1400 per month, so a bi-monthly print run will bring us back on track. The problem is the acerage age of the 600 or so members, it's around 73. A certain percentage aren't going to appreciate the loss of a printed magazine.
Committee crisis meeting next Tuesday night.
We may consider a print-on-demand deal if the price is favourable but that's looking dodgy, too. Plus the ancient X-seeve that runs our BBS needs replacing with a rack-mounted Mac Mini server, that's another $1500 needed. Looks like the club may make it to 37 years old.
@streakmachine Amazon? https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007PR8NQO/ref=mp_s_a_1_10
// @jextxadore