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keesan
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response 475 of 480:
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Dec 22 15:04 UTC 2003 |
The problem might be that I was trying to print a DOS file with linux so I
will try printing a different file that I write with pico. There is a default
printcap file set up for generic printer that should have printed text.
Today I am coughing but much less. It would have been no fun to cough during
my CT this Wednesday because they make you lie down and keep still and lying
down is what made me start coughing. I also just realized that my breathing
has been okay for the past week and no rib pain, which means the fluid around
my lungs has finally gone away after four months. Now if only fruit would
stop tasting awful. Jim brought me frozen blueberries as a treat and I forced
myself to eat four of them. He had to finish my small orange, much too sour.
I think my sour taste buds must be the only ones not killed off. We might
get Jim a flu shot today if he is also sneezing less.
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keesan
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response 476 of 480:
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Dec 22 22:39 UTC 2003 |
We got Jim a flu shot. He was number 2 but they had to get to 25 before they
started over again with 1. The waiting room was full of people aged 6 months
to 2 years, talking to everyone, and their parents, who were talking about
nothing but babies. I went out in the hallway to wait so I would not cough
on them. On the way we stopped at Dynasty Chinese Buffet in Ypsi and I
sampled the various fruits and vegetables. All the fruits tasted sour except
the bananas and the unripe canteloupe (which did not taste at all, just
crunched). They had four vegetables dishes, which don't bother me much. I
made myself eat a few greasy things for calories (deep fried cream cheese in
a crust, fried noodles with soup). Jim sampled the egg rolls and spring rolls
several times each and ate what I could not manage to eat. We were there once
just a year ago and were forced to listen to a CD of bad Christmas music
(Silent Night in 4/4 time, other things jazzed up) but this time it was
Nutcracker Suite and Night Music reorchestrated for the masses. The salad
section was outstanding for a Chinese restaurant, not just iceberg lettuce.
I ate cucumber, tomatoes, seaweed with too much garlic, carrot and daikon
shredded with rice vinegar, some sort of cole slaw with minimal mayonnaise.
Skipped the chocolate pudding and yellow jello and pizza and mini hotdogs.
On the way back I climbed three sets of stairs at the library. Puff puff.
It hurt a lot to sit for that long so we probably won't go to JIm's sister's
place Thursday (3 hours of sitting to get there and back).
I hope I did not catch the flu on our big adventure of the month.
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tpryan
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response 477 of 480:
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Dec 23 16:16 UTC 2003 |
Have you tried sitting on one of those funky pillows that
is like a piece of foam in a wave, you know for better neck support?
You might be able to get it so that the sore part is not in most
contact.
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keesan
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response 478 of 480:
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Dec 23 16:17 UTC 2003 |
Yesterday someone sent me a translation in the form of a zipped file
containing two files whose names come out the same when truncated to DOS (one
of those files named with a sentence including spaces). Jim suggested when
it asks to overwrite the first file with the second file of the same name,
to answer NO the first time, rename the first file, then unzip again and
answer yes so that the second file overwrites the first one of the original
name. I got two 1.2M files and converted to 10K text with Antiword. This
seemed wrong, so I converted to postscript (after moving over a missing
mapping file from the previous version and renaming the directory so it could
be found). Still looks the same. Somehow MS converted two pages of text with
a lot of blank spaces to 1.2M of WORD. I will download the free WORD viewer
and take a look some day.
The text is Polish and displays just fine with a VGA screen font. It won't
import into WP51/DOS because they use a different system for symbols so I
could not print it that way. I checked the printer manual for our HP 540 and
unlike the manual for the HP 500 at my apartment it won't tell you how to
access the built-in fonts for things like E. European (CP1252 or CP852) - use
the software with your DOS program, its says, or order another manual by its
part number. So I could not print out the file on my HP. My dot-matrix
printer can't print Polish unless I design my own font for it and load it.
I once designed a lambda for my 9-pin Star printer.
So I translated between the Polish lines with Jim's text editor. I could have
displayed the Polish and one document and translated to another document while
switching between screens, but this was easier. At the other end they won't
be able to print the Polish unless they have a printer with a good manual,
because it does not import into WORD, which uses a different method of
displaying and printing fonts.
Or I could have tried to translate in Linux with a computer that had two
video cards and two monitors (display the text on the VGA monitor, translate
on the TTL monitor with any text editor) but I don't have this set up yet
here.
How else might I have done this other than downloading MS's free WORD viewer
(does that also print?). Or using two side-by-side DOS computers.
I woke up only once coughing my head off and today am not coughing yet.
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keesan
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response 479 of 480:
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Dec 23 16:18 UTC 2003 |
Re 477, no I have not, and I just remembered that my 2" foam camping mat
actually came with one and I have it in the closet. Thanks.
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keesan
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response 480 of 480:
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Dec 23 23:54 UTC 2003 |
Major events of today:
Hospital called to remind me to arrive at 1 pm tomorrow for CT scan and not
to eat or drink anything after 6 am. I am debating whether to get up and eat
in the middle of the night like people do for Ramadan.
A friend who brought cookies stopped by again with fruit cake but would not
come in so as not to infect me.
We went for a walk in the rain and looked at Christmas lights. One house had
a striped red and green effect on their bushes. Another had a 'tree'
consisting entirely of a metal frame with pink lights. There were at least
four styles of reindeer. The pumpkins were more interesting. It is getting
harder to find things to look at. Maybe we will look at porch steps next.
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