Call a Whaaa…mbulance!

August 12, 2011 ~ JodiLea

Gee, wasn’t that fun? Coach Harbaugh isn’t having any fun looking at the score board. The second half I started fast-forwarding through the re-plays, because the first time was painful enough. (I pause the live game about 1/2 hour so I can zip through the commercials that pop up every 2-3 plays.)

I think I may have pushed the “Mute” button more than the “>>” button during the game tonight. The network had to show each play over again, so the commentators could keep pontificating about they just saw. Don’t they realize we are watching the same game??

And who had the bright idea to schedule the 49ers first game in New Orleans? Some NFL executive with a grudge? The sad thing is that the team played well. As well as you can play during a major ass-kicking, that is. Alex Smith is probably used to it, but poor Colin Kaepernick! What an eye-opening night it was for him I bet.

I mourned the loss of Joe Nedney. You know I have a soft spot for kickers. That and Joe was often the only one to put points on the board. But tonight I fell in love with our new kicker, David Akers. Who happened to be the only 49er to put points on the board. Hmmm… I sense a pattern here. Or maybe a curse.

Is it me or do we only have 2 offensive linemen? There were at least 5 Saints getting past the two of them. And sacking is too delicate of a word to describe what happened to our QB’s.

I just know I’m going to have nightmares tonight.

Let The Season Begin!!

August 12, 2011 ~ JodiLea

🙂 Tonight at 5:00pm (PT) opens the San Francisco 49ers 2011 preseason. 🙂

I get into preseason because I can check out the new players. Not to mention the brand new coaches. I never thought there was anything wrong with the last two, in fact I loved Coach Singletary ever since he called Vernon Davis on his crap and helped mold him from a good player, into a great player. Sigh…

Coach Harbaugh has to prove himself this season, so I hope he listens to me. Every year the 49ers have been firing and hiring QB’s. We have had great QBs come and go and still we lose. What we need is a kick-ass offensive line, so the QBs actually have 10 seconds to get the ball where it needs to go. Let’s shell out some bucks and bring in some ass-kickers for a change.

You know I’m right.

GO 49ers!!

The Cookbook: Formatting Nightmares

August 7, 2011 ~ JodiLea

Future Cookbook

I am at the last section now – desserts! I thought I would format the document while taking a break from writing recipes. OMG!! What a mess I have made.

There are 126 “sections” in the manuscript because I used one and two column sections, for the ingredient list for each recipe. It looks really nice on the page, but now I can’t get the page numbering OR the footers working. Just when I get it started going right, I notice there are 2 odd-numbered header/footers in a row. Then 2 even-numbered sections in a row. All the even-numbered pages say “Page 2”, and all the odd-numbered ones disappear after the first 20 sections. I do not know how this happens.

If I had a secretary, or an assistant, I could make them do this. Since I have to wear those hats during this point in my career, I must suck it up and learn how to format a many sectioned document. I have had MS Word training. I’m a woman, so I can (and do) ask for directions from “Help”.

There are many help pages on how to format a long document. There are no pages for help with fixing a messed up one. Perhaps Microsoft does not think people could mess up this bad. Well, they do.

I need to know how to “hide” sections that I don’t want to count. I only want TWO real sections. Not 126 sections I can’t “link to previous” with, or make sense of. Sigh. It looks like I need to sign up for more ^&*#@! training…