Spiking my Drinks

[bugshaw]

If you get to the shop which sells Diet Vanilla Coke just as it closes, and go somewhere else to get Diet Coke-flavoured Coke instead (or should that be Diet Diet-Coke flavoured Coke?), and get a bottle of mead and pour the two together, it is very nice. If a vodka and Coke is a Black Russian, would this be a Black Celt? And would a mead with blue Curaçao be a Celt in Woad?

I have been working long and hard on the Concussion ReadMe, finally getting it to the printer this arvo, and felt I should instead work on trying to MeadMe this evening. This is much easier, and I can multi-task by watching no-brain TV and feeding con badges through the laminator. I am disappointed that my Word Fu was not strong enough for the ReadMe job; I had to sully my technique by adding Adobe Fu and printer Fu.

Simon and I had each been producing part of an A5 booklet and it came to me to join the two together and make a nice clean pdf. We had each been approaching the booklet from a different perspective though, and trying to mix pages of A5 with half-A4, landscape with portrait, maintain the footers with page numbers and tweak it to 28pp instead of an irritating 29.5, well - I just couldn't do it. Our section breaks kept conflicting, so I would delete a seemingly innocuous line and lo! the document would spring apart into columns, like doubled pairs of chromosomes in mitosis. This gets annoying after a while. Then there was the way I edited my part to fit well on a page, but some pasted-in text from Simon saw fit to change my margins. I had re-edited it before I realised. Then found I would have to edit it back. Pah! I got part way using PDF conversion but in the end I was reduced to printing it out. On paper. That still required setting up to print each A5 page separately, manually setting the printer to scale by 134%. But the printer was happy in the end and we will have a ReadMe and no one will have to get nailed to a tree.

Tomorrow we have dinner with friends of Si's from Uni, who are looking after the hamster while we're in Glasgow.

Comments

[marcushill.livejournal.com]

The only thing you should really be mixing with mead is mead.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

That is true.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Later that day, I thought: "The good thing about mixing mead with Coke, is you can drink it in pints."

This morning, I think: "Ow, my head!"

[marcushill.livejournal.com]

You clearly never learned the lesson of Warped punch - anything that tastes non-alcoholic but is actually 10-15% abv should be handled with extreme care!

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

No - back in my early 20's I learnt that I can easily knock back several pints of cocktails with no ill effects!

Steve Mowbray's home brew, OTOH...

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I think that this cold is affecting my faculties - why would you word process the pages in an A5 booklet as anything other than A4?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately I had to deal with Actual Reality, not some ideal state where things are done sensibly so that they mesh seamlessly. In my defence (she says, leaping to her own defence as she prides herself on being Good At This Sort Of Thing), I have done several A5 booklets in the recent past which have been perfectly straightforward, but for them I had a longer run-up and more control over the contents.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Well done!