A rousing game of "who? huh? what? where?"

The telephone guy showed up today at work, to put in/set up the two new lines we'd ordered (jacks, wall wiring already in place). The order was placed Wednesday.

This is about all we know about it, alas. The two people who handle such things weren't in yet; one is part time and works afternoons, and the other is full time but generally works afternoons and evenings. Neither could be reached via phone, including their cell phones.

As a consequence, the man left without doing any work, because we had no idea what to have him do. I'll be interested to hear, later, where exactly these lines are supposed to go; his dispatch will send him back "later" (which may or may not be later today), since we weren't ready now. Hopefully, by the time "later" rolls around, we'll have been called back by the people we left messages for (or they'll have come in), and we won't have to repeat this....

Huh? But I...oh, never mind.

When I'm in the office, my email works fine.

When I'm at home, using the VPN connection, my email gives "connection timed out".

They're asking me to switch email programs, because they don't know anything about troubleshooting my current one.

Huh?

I sent off an explanation to the guy that "connection timed out" is not a client-specific error.

These are our IT/support specialists. I am scared, now....

Beadscape!!!!!

Yes. Yesyesyesyes. My beading program is here, it is cool, and it is fun.

The "minimum" requirements are. It sucks on that level of memory. Fortunately, this machine has a whole lot more. It purrs on this machine, once its memory-to-use is increased. It does cool things on this machine.

It does things I would be scared to try beading for fear my arms would fall off and I'd accumulate 20 bazillion unused beads (because I only need a few of each color) on this machine....

*beams* I love this program.

Of course, I really don't love the export process quite so much. It only deals with PICT format files. No problem, there's an image program on the machine that can convert from that to JPG. All fine, yes?

Well, sorta. So far, the "export at 16 inches on a side" attempt, translated into JPG, is the same dismal 3-4 inches on a side that the "export at 8 inches" was.

I think I need to find something and kick it....

But other than that it is good!

10:08 - Yay! Exporting as a PNG results in similar issues, except the resulting file resizes nicely once I have it on my PC. Much better quality.

I think that's enough experimentation for one evening.