http://littleropegirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/with-little-help-from-my-friends.html

http://mistressmatisse.blogspot.com/2008/08/hello-seattle-glad-to-be-back-wow-its.html

Your correspondent was probably frightened by scenes from TV shows depicting New York co-op boards grilling prospective shareholders. In Seattle, it's not the case. In my co-op, the board "interview" was really them going through the rules with you and asking you if you had any questions. They never asked details about people's financial lives. It was a thoroughly rubber-stamped process. I suppose if you showed up smelling like garbage and carrying some cats around, they might ask questions, but as long as you're presentable, you won't have issues.

With the housing market as it is, a co-op board is probably happy to have new tenants moving in.

It's important to remember that co-ops are corporations where you buy shares in that corporation; shareholders are then granted a lease on one of the apartments. It's not quite like a condo. It's actually much friendlier, and far less expensive.

kimosammy

I broke $3,000 for the 3 Day Walk.

My desk is cleared off.  There will be more tomorrow, but still...

Got to play with 3 Border Collies at work today.  9 year, 2 year, and an 8 month old.  A winner of a combination.

I tried to fight the need for caffeine and lost, but the nice person in the car behind me picked up my tab.

And tonight I finished the first disc of season two of Dexter.

Really good day.

http://wordstudio.net/thegist/?p=292

BAYLISS: If this was your case you’d be thorough.

PEMBLETON: [waffling] Ehh.

BAYLISS: No, you would.

A man has been found shot dead in the stairwell of his apartment building — the same stairwell where he shot three detectives just days earlier. The charges against him won’t stick, though, so no one on the police force is much interested in solving his murder. Detective Tim Bayliss caught the case, forcing him to investigate his fellow cops if he wants to close it. But he doesn’t want the case, doesn’t want to know if any of his fellow police killed the shooter, doesn’t want to close the case and doesn’t want it open.

His partner, Frank Pembleton, is staying away from the case, but Bayliss goes to him and wonders out loud about the rightness of criminals who don’t get caught and killers who walk. Every cop has seen someone he knows to be guilty go free.

PEMBLETON: It doesn’t seem fair does it?

BAYLISS: No, it doesn’t. But who am I to say? I mean, I’m not God. I mean, we could go about seeking revenge and if we’re smart we’re not ever going to get caught. But that makes us like terrorists. Making up our own rules. What’s the difference?

PEMBLETON: What’s the difference?

BAYLISS: Yeah.

PEMBLETON: We’re the good guys.

[Homicide: Life on the Street, "Law and Disorder," originally aired 2/24/1995]

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I'm editing a poli-sci manuscript for someone and my Microsoft Word template got messed up and kept changing all the pages to A4 size. I would fix it and exit the file and open it again, and suddenly it was A4 again! grrr! So I got that part fixed by closing MS Word and doing what our ITS guy told me, which was to delete all the normal.dot files on my hard drive. Then I restarted Word and my pages are back to Letter size, which is good, because that's what I want.

However, my spellcheck somehow has loaded the British English dictionary, instead of the American English dictionary. The spellcheck wants me to use spellings like fervour, endeavour, centre, etc.

How do I fix my spellcheck dictionary back to American spellings?

Thank you so much, in advance!

p.s. I'm pretty sure that the author of the document had the pages set for A4. He's from Africa and he probably started writing the book when he was there.

http://twistedmonk.blogspot.com/2008/08/nominated-so-i-twittered-about-this.html

http://mistressmatisse.blogspot.com/2008/08/cher-show-was-great.html

http://xkcd.com/465/