Grrr

The more I use this program, the more I hate it.  What kind of morons were in the development team when this fetid piece of crap was shipped?

For a good part of the morning I've been tweaking a large dataset, trying to get this program to recognize the dates in it as, well, dates.  Naturally once its internal logic determines that a field contains a certain kind of data, the drop-down where you can potentially override that is ghosted.  Come to think of it, that drop-down box is always ghosted.

Ah, this appears to be a number of some kind.
Ah, this appears to be some kind of random ascii with "/" characters strewn through it.
Ah, this appears to be quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche.
Hm, more random ascii with "/"s?

Eventually I found that the only date format it seems to understand is m/d/yy format.
That's odd, because it then defaults to yyyy/mm/dd format to display the date -- which is the first date format I tried on it.  It's enough to make one's head explode.



Vacation in 1.5 days.

Fûd

From atara's meal-of-the-day picture gallery.  We had a bit of a busy week, so we only cooked dinner on a couple of the days.
( This week's dinner collage. )

Fanfic

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde

I wrote a short, silly fanfic to a (mostly dead) mailing list that I still occasionally read.  I wasn't really expecting any responses, but a reply came back.

The kind of fanfics I _loathe_. Sometimes I just want to tear their authors to very, very small pieces...

While not exactly the response I was expecting, it was still better than no response at all.  I replied to the poster with:

luv u 2 k thx bai

...

What else was there to say, really?