Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Mail Merging Postal Codes

I fought for too many hours trying to merge some labels and have all the postal codes be formatted correctly. Why does it need to be that hard? No matter where I looked, I could not find any information that made it clear how Word intepreted the columns of a data source and why it chose to force them to be numbers. As a result, no matter what I tried, Canadian postal codes came out as the number 0 in all cases. I had to give up...

RIP Oliver

Oliver was hit by a car and died two days ago. While it is true that we didn't always see eye to eye, I will miss having him around. Watching Moira's reaction has been fascinating. She has a very matter-of-fact sense of the whole incident and is anxious to tell as many people as possible about all the details she knows.

I am digging a grave for a soon to be held memorial. The vet suggested 5 ft.... That's a long way down. I think I will aim more for 3 ft, and put a big heavy rock on top.