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[chess]

The peas are, I'm convinced, all conspiring against me. It all started with those carrots... can't trust carrots, shifty little blighters, boil over soon as look at you they will. And now the peas are in on the act I'm sure, all jumping up and down, bouncing off each other in a frenzied attempt to make the water boil faster and more destructively... well, I caught it in time, but why waste a good conspiracy theory?

I was doing perfectly well, and then I attempted to lift the lid off the cassarole dish I'd just that minute taken out of the oven. After leaping backwards halfway across the kitchen and going 'Ah, ah, ah!!' a lot, I decided that oven gloves would be a really useful accessory at this point...

Lightness aside, I'm an idiot - the stupid, disorganised, incapable of retaining textbooks kind. (We got a letter today claiming I'd lost all my science books. I *know* I put the Physics books in the pigeonhole of a Physics teacher, but I can't remember which one - Sath, can you? And I know I took the Biology textbook to school and put it in my locker, and then the locker was empty by the time I'd left on Thursday. I really have no memories of the Chemistry one after revision tho, I was expecting to have lost that. And I can't really remember what I did with my History one. And I still have the RE-Luke one sitting in a drawer, and have prolly lost the RE-Judaism one, grr! And that's on top of the Latin books I lost. I think I've lost more stuff than I've returned. I mean, I have the money to pay for it and all, but as my parents said, 'that's not the point'. No idea how I can make myself more organised after the next set of exams - although as we basically are being forced to buy all our 6th-form books anyway (but that's another rant) it oughtn't be a problem - I don't lose half as many whilst we have regular lessons, 'cos I regularly check to see if I have them 'cos I need them for a lesson.

But wait, I haven't finished about the first part of today. Paula was back and had some random typing for me to do, so I dozed my way through that, then there was some scanning that wasn't so bad because the 'Adobe Distiller' that was meant to convert it to PDF wouldn't work so I had to fiddle with it. Eventually I got it down to just spewing irrelevant .log files and putting 'Copy of' before each filename, although I *did* forget to delete those picture files (part of the workaround) I said I would, duh. Had to fire up a DOS prompt to kill the .log files in a sensible way (there were *lots* of these things, but del *.log is easy enough), and couldn't find any sensible way to remove the 'copy of' things, or indeed any remotely rational way except by hand in Windows Explorer (could've done it with rename in DOS I guess but that'd've been vaguely more difficult in this case) - is there one (under Windows 95, that is - I suppose Linux has a properly rational way of doing this)?

Thankfully after doing some filing of the stuff I was scanning Paula ran out of stuff for me to do so I got to play with Micross again - I mean, to any normal person it'd be equally dull, but it's moderately sane and numbers and stuff. Forgot to mention the (computer) golf I watched dad and Vince play at lunch, but that was pretty routine. Eventually emerged blinking into the sunlight - I'd had no idea it was that bright and hot outside!

I'm sure there was something else I wanted to moan about here (apart from having to wash my hair *again* despite it only being 2 days instead of the proper 3 since I'd done it last) but I've forgotten it in all the me-bashing about the textbooks. Don't like normal things like keeping track of books, don't get on with them, grr. (wanders off ranting aimlessly)

Comments

[marble.livejournal.com]

1. Make a space for your text books, and always make a point of putting your text books there when you are done using them.

2. Check out regedit.org - there's probably a registry key you can hack to get rid of the 'copy of' things.

3. Yes, linux has a sensible way of renaming all files according to a pattern:
for i in copy_of_*; do mv $i `echo $i | sed s/copy_of_//`; done
(I'm assuming noone would be stupid enough to use spaces in filenames in Linux, so that's slightly translated from your problem...)
(Note that you can get bash, mv, echo and sed for windows - check out Cygwin.)

[chess]

The problem with these solutions is:
a) they'd take more time than renaming the files did,
b) I don't think Paula would have liked her computer to be messed with.

I'll bear it in mind if I ever create a need for something like that with truly ridiculous numbers of files, and have a look at that registry site anyway (to abuse my poor ickle computae further...), tho...

[naath.livejournal.com]

Next time you cook, cook something easier... like piza.

Leave textbooks in school, or on a table that you use only for work (We use the dinning room as a class room, every Xmas or Easter we turn it back to dinning room and I lose half my papers...)

Alternatively ...

[passage.livejournal.com]

Keep the textbooks in a cupboard at home, never take them into school and only read them in rare and strange circumstances.

I suspect this solution won't suite (Okay, where did the sofa come from? Own up) you tho.

Neil