so many last things to accomplish before we go

[kareina]

It has been a busy couple of days of travel prep: packing for SCA event and getting ready for the conference and Durham trip. I finished the poster for the conference on Wednesday and sent it to my advisor, who thought it looked great, but suggested that it would be good to include the Durham logo and sent me a power point poster template that the department (possibly the whole uni?) uses. She will be doing the printing for me, and would happily have accepted the CorelDraw file I already had, but the uni print shop told her they would rather have powerpoint. So I spent three hours today fighting with powerpoint to re-create the same poster by copy-pasting in each text box and each photo and then using the painful ppt interface to get them to be the correct size and shape again. Then, after a break to do more event packing, I went back and spent another couple of hours on tweaks and edits.

Once it was truly done I sent her the file, and then went in to the office, where I had planned to print some flyers for the Uma XXV: Hostdans & Norrskensbard event that the autocrat had sent me (I asked her to, so I could give them out at Cudgel War), pick up the rock samples I want to take to Durham for analysis with the XRD while I am there, and then go to the grocery store to get a few things for the road (especially fresh fruit--I am totally out at home).

However, it took some time to make the printer work (had to re-install the uni printer authentication system and reintroduce my computer to the printer system). Then I decided that rather than taking the samples as they are that it would make sense to cut the bigger ones into two pieces and take only a small one of each with me to Durham (to keep the luggage reasonable in mass). This meant labelling new sample bags for all of those, and taking photos, etc. by which time the store was closed. Therefore I also took the time to enter into the spreadhseet which ones are cut and which ones I am taking the entire sample, and I even re-named all of the photos with their sample number and the word "-cut".

Now I can go get some sleep. David has to work in the morning, and has a few more things he wants to pack into his wooden chests, which need to go in the bottom row in the car, so car loading won't happen till he is home. He hopes to work only a half day, but he is in IT, so it could happen that he gets stuck having to fix something that takes hours... But we will get on the road when we do, and then it is 10 hours driving (plus breaks) to Cudgel War. I don't expect to get another chance to post again till I get to Durham on Friday the 13th, since last I checked it wasn't possible to post from my phone...

Edited to add: just taught the phone my password so I can log into the web page. So not as nice as the LJ app, which doesn't work with DreamWidth...

Comments

[katerit]

Have a splendid war!