Overslept. In some haste, therefore.

The Socklady has a new spring picture up. Does that road sign warn of the danger of being crushed by a runaway lorry?

Thank you for the help with getting Mme Defarge into my iPad .pdf library. I greatly look forward to having a go. The first problem – see yesterday’s comments – is to get it into the iPad. I tried in vain to move it as an email attachment yesterday. Deborah’s suggestion of moving it temporarily into Dropbox is simple and brilliant. It sounds as if Judith’s idea of using iTunes as the bridge would work as well. (I used iTunes and synchronization a bit when I was a new iPad owner. Since then, I just feed my Kindle habit by visiting Amazon directly from the iPad.)

I’ll let you know tomorrow.

Technical

I wasted some of the little time I had this morning, googling on the question of whether I want an all-in-one computer. I learned that they don’t necessarily come as touchscreens, Mary Lou. I think the answer is no, on the grounds of cost, tempting as is the (wholly illusory) prospect of a life free of clutter.

The second day of the Toshiba went well. My husband hit a weird problem, presumably an OpenOffice blip: when he tried to insert text immediately after a footnote number, it appeared in miniscule letters and superscripted. Creating a space between the footnote number and the new text didn’t help. Obviously, there’s a hidden formatting code in there that we can’t get at. The work-around is to insert the new text one word further on, and then, working backwards, delete that word.

After 25 years of saving his work every evening and immediately copying it to an external disk, it’s a bit disconcerting for my husband just to save with a couple of keystrokes and then shut the lid. The work is automatically backed up not only to the cloud but to my desktop along the corridor, via Dropbox. And will be waiting, in the morning, at the point where he left off. He never has to see Windows 8 at all. (I’ve done away with the need for a password.)

Knitting

I finished the right-hand shoulder of the Relax last night. The instructions said to cut the yarn and leave the stitches on a holder. Later, they were to be three-needle-bound-off with the equivalent back shoulder. I thought I might as well do that right away, for several reasons. So I did. I’m not sure it’s a very neat job, but if it has to be repeated at least I’ve got the right length of yarn.

That left an object with one shoulder joined and no ball of yarn attached so I tried it on this morning. I’m not sure. Should it be bigger and easier as the designer intended? At this rate, even with Easter looming, I may well have it finished when we go to Loch Fyne next week. I am blessed with three possible Very Small knitting-recipients, Rachel’s daughters Hellie and Lizzie, and daughter-in-law Cathy. Cathy won’t be there, but Hellie and Lizzie will and I can see how it looks on one of them, with a lot more drape than it manages on me..