Oh, why do I dislike change? That sounds ironic since the essence of our life style at the moment is moving around. Nothing feels too permanent, and we are frequently wondering what it will be like to actually settle down and become a part of the community for decades. Is that kind of life for us? Or are we going to be craving to move every three four years? Lots of questions on our minds these days, lots of them need to be figured out very soon as our time in England will be coming to an end in a year and a half.
I drifted a bit from the topic of my post though. I just wanted to make a note here why I have not been writing for so long…Besides being busy with holidays and everything else that is part of our everyday life, the biggest culprit for me was adjusting to our new iMac! Back in November we had to buy a new computer as our old one literally caught on fire inside. I was just done with weird random shutting down of that computer, so we decided to invest into a fancy new computer…
It’s been over two months now…and I am not in love with it. I am still adjusting. Yes, using internet is easy and stuff, but there are so many small tricky things that Windows had right and Apple doesn’t offer. I work a lot with pictures, but I hate iPhoto as it doesn’t organize my pictures the way that I organize them. “Print Select” should be a standard feature…but no, Apple doesn’t do that. if you have something on a website you want printed out, you have to copy and paste it in Word first and then print. ANNOYING since I print out a lot of emails/confirmations/travel stuff.
Finally, and this is the biggest adjustment, I cannot find anything even remotely similar to Windows Live Writer—a free blogging software program that I use to write my blogs. Blogspot itself is a very inconvenient way to write blog posts as it takes forever to upload pictures. But WLW is fantastic! There is nothing as great, even if I have to pay for it, that can substitute it with…for now. So I am writing this blog post on our laptop, and thankfully, we have figured out how to access all the pictures that are on our Apple computer from my laptop…it just takes a bit longer. Now I can, hopefully, get back to journaling our lives
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Today is a slow day and I had to stay home as maintenance people had to come redo our shower door and laundry room ceiling and lamp as shower has been having issues with leaking water for over a year. Fun stuff.
Lyana.
I drifted a bit from the topic of my post though. I just wanted to make a note here why I have not been writing for so long…Besides being busy with holidays and everything else that is part of our everyday life, the biggest culprit for me was adjusting to our new iMac! Back in November we had to buy a new computer as our old one literally caught on fire inside. I was just done with weird random shutting down of that computer, so we decided to invest into a fancy new computer…
It’s been over two months now…and I am not in love with it. I am still adjusting. Yes, using internet is easy and stuff, but there are so many small tricky things that Windows had right and Apple doesn’t offer. I work a lot with pictures, but I hate iPhoto as it doesn’t organize my pictures the way that I organize them. “Print Select” should be a standard feature…but no, Apple doesn’t do that. if you have something on a website you want printed out, you have to copy and paste it in Word first and then print. ANNOYING since I print out a lot of emails/confirmations/travel stuff.
Finally, and this is the biggest adjustment, I cannot find anything even remotely similar to Windows Live Writer—a free blogging software program that I use to write my blogs. Blogspot itself is a very inconvenient way to write blog posts as it takes forever to upload pictures. But WLW is fantastic! There is nothing as great, even if I have to pay for it, that can substitute it with…for now. So I am writing this blog post on our laptop, and thankfully, we have figured out how to access all the pictures that are on our Apple computer from my laptop…it just takes a bit longer. Now I can, hopefully, get back to journaling our lives
.Today is a slow day and I had to stay home as maintenance people had to come redo our shower door and laundry room ceiling and lamp as shower has been having issues with leaking water for over a year. Fun stuff.
Lyana.
Lyana,
ReplyDeleteI can definitely sympathize with those big decisions. Tom and I were just talking about the pros and cons of settling down or moving every so often. And of course each way has both pros and cons. Maybe it just comes down to what opportunities fall in our lap and what don't. A faculty position just opened up here in Lexington in the Orofacial Pain department. Honestly, I think if we didn't have a commitment to the Airforce, we would apply for it and stay here. (For a lot of reasons, but mostly because of the kids schools and because Tom really loves the clinic here). But that option isn't open to us because of the AF and probably won't be even in 3 years... so we keep walking down the road and see what other opportunity will fall in our lap:)