When atheists pray
13-Dec-03
It is true. I pray. My typical prayer goes something like “PleasedontletFramemakerfuckmelikeabitch.” Repeat until Framemaker fucks me like a bitch.
Today, I have been making many fruitless prayers to the saints of technology. I am sure the ass-fucking I’ve gotten today while trying to make HTML Help files and PDFs (really, not just today, though– I’ve been trying to get this bitch to behave all week long) has only a little to do with my lack of actual piety and faith.
Anyway, I’m just hoping that this time it’ll work the way I want it to, and then I can give the files to the programmers and it’ll be All Done, All Better Now, Thanks.
I wonder if they ever fixed the bug that makes the help file unusable. I wonder if it even matters.
Oh, and I was reading a very good book this week– Jarhead by Anthony Swofford. I bought this book on Tuesday, when I was having a crappy day. I lost this book yesterday, when I was having a crappy day. Today, while I was having a crappy day, I bought a replacement copy of this book.
I really hope Swofford is getting some kick-ass royalties, cause his book costs $14, and I paid for it twice this week. If I ever find the lost copy (and yes, I’ve tried all avenues for recovery at this point), I will send it to a sibling who can appreciate it. In any case, I only hesitated a little while before buying a replacement– this book is that good. You can thank both Swofford and my Help files for the profanity in this post, but let me state for the record that his writing is phenomenal, his voice is incredibly strong. And very masculine– it’s interesting to read a book with such a “male” voice, talking about things that are lying under the surface of the “typical guy stuff,” even while explaining how that typical guy stuff is the stuff under the surface. I can’t speak for the storytelling– as a narrative, it’s generally without a real structured plot. But then, it’s not really a story– it’s a man.