I enjoyed today

[kareina]

I spent most of the day at home organizing stuff in the apartment. Discovered, to my joy, that at least two of the boxes we didn't find yesterday when we were looking to be certain that all of the boxes were present and accounted for are, in fact, here. One of the others might be here--we just set the boxes of paperback novels aside when we came to them--no point in unpacking those till we've got the paperback shelves put together, and can't do that till we clear enough space to make the assembly possible (these are the only shelves I shipped, because they break down and therefore are easy to ship; I made them myself--I see no point in putting paperbacks on store-bought shelves, which are never the correct size; I like books to have shelves which are just exactly the correct depth and height). Alas, the suitcase full of good fabric for sewing projects is still missing (noticing that it wasn't here is what prompted me to try to do an inventory yesterday).

This evening I spent three hours working on the thesis adjustments. The earliest mention for some figures wound up moving one page up or down as a result of the edits to the text--any place it is easy to move the figure itself so that it still faces the first mention therof I am moving it. Occasionally it isn't really feasible to do that based on how full the new target page already is, but I have to check all of them. I managed to finish the figure shuffling for chapters 1-3 today. Tomorrow I need to do chapters 4-6 and I'll be ready to try to compile the final pdf. Of course this means that I need to gain the ability to do this. The adobe page says that it is possible to download a trial version of acrobat professional. I wonder if that will let me combine various pdfs into a single document without doing something nasty like labelling them "this was done with a trial version"? I don't want to have to pay for the program for just the one use, but I do need to combine figures and text into a single file, and I know better than to paste the figures from CorelDraw into the Word document. I'm not willing to put up with the crashes that result.

Comments

[tyghra.livejournal.com]

Glad things are working themselves out and hope you find the missing items. When my family moved from Hobart up to Sydney (I was about 9yo) the shipping company managed to lose several important boxes. That was in 1971. You'd think that they'd be tracking each box securely these days so things should've improved!