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It is quite challenging to get dressed in the morning when it's currently
21°C and rainy (and supposedly humid enough to feel like 29°C) and
going up to 30°C (and feeling like 40°C; hello steam bath!).

I went with jeans and a tank top and an umbrella. They are presently
sticking to me. (Not the umbrella.) Blech.

House update: Thursday

Inexplicably, no report from my aunt yesterday.

Wednesday night I went over and wired two more light fixtures. Have
started using the larger size of Marr connector, which is far less
frustrating although still not perfect. It took me an hour to do two,
including going and finding all the tools and bits and bobs I needed --
the second one was just over 20 minutes. I barely screamed at all,
although occasionally I did have to climb down off the ladder and breathe
deeply and take a swig of water to soothe my nerves before returning to
the fray. Tonight I shall do more. If I keep this up, I will have all
kinds of lights by this time next week.

Yesterday Jen and I went to Sears to inquire about her missing
refrigerator, which I bought a year ago and we put off having delivered a
couple of times and then they stopped calling and we didn't pursue it
because we had no room for a fridge anyway, but then I couldn't get hold
of the sales guy and I was really dreading the whole thing but as it turns
out it didn't faze them in the least -- they looked at the receipt and
said "Hm. We need to get you a fridge." So in theory she's getting a nice
new Frigidaire. We await developments.

I don't know what else happened yesterday.

Lotus Notes, I Hate You

Graaagh.

So I wrote an email and pasted some text into it from a Word document. Hit
Send. Got a dialog box that informed me the message used a character set
that wasn't found in the font I was using (or something like that) and
would I like to send it in ISO-something or the best native character set?
I realized that the curly quotes from the Word document were probably what
was causing the problem, hit Cancel on the dialog box, fixed the curly
quotes, and hit Send again.

Then I got a dialog box that said "Are you sure? This message has already
been sent to one or more recipients."

Uh.

I told it yes, I was sure (because you can't trust it). Officemate, who
was one of the recipients, did indeed get two copies of the message. So in
other words, Lotus Notes gave me a dialog box that implied it wasn't going
to send the message until I made a decision WHILE SENDING THE MESSAGE
ANYWAY.

It is a minor irritation, but one of so very many. Last week I discovered
a number of websites devoted to explaining how, exactly, Lotus Notes
sucks. I am not surprised.