Are you putting a “carriage return” after every line?
If you’re putting one at the end of a paragraph, that’s why it’s adding space. See if you can set “Space Between Paragraphs” in your settings.
Or, if you insist on using your computer like a typewriter (do you wish there was a big lever and a bell when you start a new line? :newrolleyes:), can you use a “soft return” instead of a paragraph break? It’s often SHIFT/Return. It lets you start a new line, but in the same paragraph.
This used to piss me off as well. I figured out that MS Word has a template for new documents. If you google “MS Word opening page template” you can see how to change the template so it always starts with the settings you prefer.
Am I on Candid Camera? I’m asked to make travel arrangements for several people, and HURRY. The very second I click confirm on the last reservation, I’m told to change the dates.
Oh, and still HURRY. :mad:
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. Sincerely. But the solution itself–that it exists, and that it must be sought out–only increases my rage. It means that some snide programmer KNEW the default would be irritating, and so made sure there was a “fix” available, and then HID the goddamned fix rather than make IT the default. Jesus Christ, I’m so pissed off now I can barely think! Hey MS, here’s a tip: How about just marketing a product with basic functionality as the default, and then let ME decide what tricks I want it to learn? Man, I wish I had a puppy to kick right now.
Over the weekend, I saw a Jeep driving along with a couple of large flags flying from the rear of the car and one of those “Offended by my flag? Call 1-800-EAT-SHIT” bumper stickers. :rolleyes: However, his U.S. flag was so in tatters it looked like a big swallow-tail pennant :eek: while the Irish flag below it was absolutely pristine. :dubious: So, irony of ironies, I actually was offended by his flag, but not for the reasons his right-wing pea-brain was presuming.
Thanks for everyone who was thinking of us today! We got home a couple of hours ago. He was pretty scared, but we managed to get through the MRI. I am hoping to get a report tomorrow, but I don’t know for sure when it will come in. We have a CD of the images, but of course we don’t know enough about what we’re looking at to know how to read it.
Well, I for one am glad that’s over for him. Good luck on the results. Let us know.
Brave kid! If he can get through that, who knows what he can do!
Now that we’ve successfully sent good vibes for a people, how about a dog?
Ours is going in for surgery tomorrow morning. Took him to the vet for a minor issue this afternoon, and… he’s got a large abdominal tumor. 50/50 chance it’s benign and can be removed… the other 50 means he might be euthanized on the table (he’s over a dog century old), or sewn back up and sent back home “until it suddenly hemorrhages and he bleeds out”.
Vibes and all flavors of prayers welcome.
Thinking healing thoughts for your pupper!
My rant: 3 years ago during my yearly mammogram they found a tiny lump. So they sent me to their other location which has the uber new 3D Imaging machine. Yep, a lump. Queue 3 more visits 6 months apart until they said “Oh, it’s just a fibrous boob spot.” Which my OB/Gyn had told me 25 years ago until he retired to be head guy in the state (so for 20 years).
Guess what happened last week? “Oh, you have a spot so go to the expensive place.” At least this time they said immediately it was just a fibrous boob.
There is no history of breast cancer on either side of my family.
I wonder if next year they’ll ding me again or wait 2 visits? As in next year they really crank the regular machine down (unlike this year) or will they do a soft one and then I will have to go to the more expensive place because “they see a spot in a different spot”.
It reminds me of my kids and their dentist: every 6 months they have perfect teeth but at the next visit that coincides with XRays they suddenly have 1 or 2 micro cavities (except the youngest who had his teeth sealed by them).
Poor pupster. Good puppy thoughts.
Thank you! The worst part is “no supper or breakfast before surgery”. He’s looking at me like I’m an idiot for feeding the other dogs and forgetting him (I took him for a walk, so he didn’t see others eating, but he knowwwwws…) And he thinks if he just keeps glaring at me, it’ll remind me…
You know what whips my ass? Why does my car… with more processing power than all of Earth’s computers in existence in 1968… why does it still have a “check engine” light? Can’t it just, you know, TELL ME what is wrong? Why do I have to take it into the shop so some yag can hook it up to ANOTHER COMPUTER to tell me that the alternator is going, or it’s throwing a piston, or whatever?
The older I get, the more I realize life in America is just one big goddamned scam.
Especially when, in my experience with taking the car to the shop for a diagnostic, a large percentage of “check engine” lights reflect a bug in the “check engine” light system. :mad:
The closest I’ve come to finding an actual cause is that the false alarm tends to happen after leaving a cigarette-lighter USB charger unit plugged in while the car is parked – the (hybrid) car apparently detects an unusual drain on the battery and goes into OMG ELECTRICAL SYSTEM FAILURE mode.
I have had six calls from the “IRS” today about a tax problem. I blocked the number but they are still able to leave a message. this is annoying. I don’t know how to stop them leaving a voice mail and their number doesn’t show up in my call log since I blocked it. this is crap, if I have blocked their number that should mean they can’t leave a message.
IANAMechanic, but I’d guess this is for several reasons. The computers and sensors are necessary to the car’s operation but a diagnostic display would add extra cost for very little incremental benefit, and you’d need the idiot light anyway to warn of serious conditions. Also, neither the ODB-II codes nor their plain English interpretation would be meaningful to most people since it’s mostly obscure technical conditions, often conditions that occur in a pattern, and translating that to a simple layman’s interpretation of “your engine’s frazzlefritzer is bust” takes skill and, often, direct examination to confirm. If you really want more detail you can get an inexpensive ODB-II reader that will do it for you for what it’s worth, which to the average person isn’t much. It’s mainly to tell a mechanic where to start looking for the problem.
I have an ODB-II reader that I’ve only ever used to confirm emissions-test readiness. It even has features where you can view and record dynamic engine information while driving, which is, again, technical info that the computers are capable of providing but which is pretty useless to the average driver.
They call TWICE–answering machine gets the first, and the second bothers you on voice mail while the first circuit is busy.
It’s not just you guys and the “IRS”. I just got a cell phone message yesterday from the “Canada Revenue Agency” (also in quotes) stating that a lawsuit was being initiated for something to do with my taxes unless I did something immediately. I don’t know what I supposed to do because I deleted the message and hung up, but I suspect it involved sending the “Canada Revenue Agency” iTunes or Amazon gift certificates. But hey, it’s better than the one I got about a year ago, stating that my arrest was imminent unless I presumably did the same thing. The “Canada Revenue Agency” definitely seems to get their shorts in a knot considering my taxes are all in order. Maybe they have me confused with a different Wolfpup, or maybe they’re desperately short of new music in the government iTunes library.
Yeah, I’m also in Canada and have gotten a tax-evasion phone call. I knew it was a scam.
I have gotten two more messages since I posted this. Something else is going on. I blocked the number after the first two today.
My son’s MRI was normal!
Also, his regular optometrist doesn’t see the pallor that the developmental optometrist saw - she showed me the comparison pictures from two years ago and today. So maybe this will all turn out to be nothing.
Still waiting on the nutritional status testing, but I am feeling much better. (But still massively unimpressed with the developmental optometrist, who failed to return any of four messages from me and one from the pediatrician last week, in addition to sending us onto this roller coaster in the first place.)