At 05:12 AM 11/12/03 -0800, Joy Beeson wrote: >And then out of the cities, we have names like County Road West 1230 North. We tried to go to the animal shelter yesterday. Went down SR 15 to CR 100 South, drove west, noticed that we were passing CR 500W, turned around and went back checking the house numbers carefully -- rather difficult, as some were on houses, some on mailboxes, some not legible, some not there. No 3489, unless maybe it was in that trailer park.
So we decided that the address in the phone book must be that of the contact number -- you get that sort of thing in all-volunteer organizations -- went to the vet, dropped off our used needles, asked directions. Continued on down Center Street, out Route 30 (Properly, SR 30, but that seems a petty name for a highway), left at Tractor Supply, right onto the "little road" behind it, which at first we took for a driveway, and indeed we couldn't miss it. As we were leaving after dropping off our bags of cat food, I noticed the mailbox: "Hey! This is 3489!" Dave added that we were on 100S. Sudden orientation: 30 is an angling road, so we were a mile south of where I had thought I was. I'd actually been there on my bike, when Tractor Supply was at 250 E -- I saw the sign for the new Tractor Supply that was almost finished, and thought I was on the driveway behind the old Tractor Supply until I actually got to the intersection. We concluded that there must be a typo in the phone book: I read "W 100 S", Dave read "W 100 S", and he carried the phone book in with him to copy the address into the map program -- but, indeed, the phone book says "E 100 S". Living on graph paper doesn't work if you can't tell east from west. He also discovered a bug in Streets and Trips -- he tried to look at a map of the real location -- and no matter what he types in, the program restores his mistake! Reminds me of when I tried to edit a newsletter using Word. Sometimes the "remove your corrections" feature worked only on alternating pages, or at random pages, which made it hard to catch them all. Deleting the templates helped some, but nothing cured it until I clipboarded all my stuff into Publisher. Which, alas, won't run on my new operating system, and the version that will refuses to operate unless I give it Internet access. Failing to see what legitimate use an arrange-text-and-graphics-on-a-page program has for internet access, I refuse to grant it, so we are at an impasse, and I think I'll publish my next newsletter with PC-Write. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where the wind has blown away most of the leaves, and neatly piled the remainder. Which makes up for having to retrieve the lawn chairs and the doormat. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
