I awoke today and looked at the bedside clock, the one with numbers large enough that even I can read it without my glasses, as long as I’m somewhere on the bed.  It told me that there wasn’t much time before my wife would be getting ready for work, so I’d better hurry if I wanted to use the bathroom.  I pulled myself upright, and grabbed my watch–which gave me an entirely different view of the matter, telling me that I had plenty of time to get coffee and get organized before her alarm would ring.

Of course, her alarm is in that other clock, the one with the considerably later time on it.  However, I realized, impressively quickly given how foggy I still was otherwise, that the bedside clock had compensated automatically for the change for Daylight Savings Time which was not to be this weekend, because we did it several weeks back.

I was working on moving both new books toward publication when I hit a snag.  I had both publisher sites open, because I figured I could upload Game Ideas Unlimited:  Volume I to the one site while uploading Faith and Gaming to the other.  The former is with a printer who has done merchandise for us in the past, but never books, so I was fighting my way through there process and very pleased finally to have come to the place where I could upload the text.  I had not to that point done the conversion to portable document format (PDF), but that’s a relatively quick fix.  After all, I’ve had Adobe Acrobat Professional 4.0 on my computer for most of a decade, and never had any serious problems with it.

However, I encountered my first serious problem with it.  It is not Adobe’s fault, but MicroSoft’s.  It seems that when we made the change to the new operating system, it failed to recognize the Acrobat software as printers.  If you have an Acrobat writer on your computer, it shows up as several different types of printer drivers, which permit you rather simply to hit “print” and turn just about anything you can print into the universal portable document format.  However, those options were absent from my system.

Nor does MicroSoft make it easy to move printer drivers around.  Obviously, the drivers are still on my computer, in the printers folder on the old hard drive; however, the printers folder apparently is not called that, and I could not find it.

Mercifully, I had to drive someone home last night a “fur piece”, about eighty miles each way, which put me in the neighborhood of our friend and treasurer Adam Keller, who owns a disused copy of a newer version of the software (he has purchased a yet newer version for his own use, so this was an unused license).  I will be upgrading later this afternoon or early this evening, which hopefully will resolve this problem in plenty of time.

So I have much to do, but hopefully enough time in which to do it.

–M. J. Young