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Anybody have any ideas?
Sat Aug 27 2005

I've begun printing my diaries, because I know I wrote on a particular subject, but I don't have any idea when. And the Search for a particular topic (I think I remember the name of the entry) isn't working, and hasn't been for quite some time.

OK, so I've run into a problem immediately. I started writing the end of December '02, and printed those. I printed the first entry of January '03, and decided to quit for the time being. OK, how do I get back to January '03 without having to click on previous month...previous month...previous month.... Well yo get the idea. It'll take a bit of time to get from here back to then. I could go to First Entry, and keep clicking on Next until I get to the date I want, which won't be too much trouble until I've printed all of January.

I just can't see me clicking on Next for the next half hour until I get to the date I want. There must be a quick way to get to a particular date.

Then after I've printed all of '03, there's all of '04, except for one entry. Then there's '05 except for May. (When did I print those?)

So you see the problem I've set up for myself?

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Klutz seems to run in the family, but I never thought my vacuum cleaner would attack me. What I'm about to relate really, truly happened.

I have a cannister type vacuum with a hose and wands that attach to the sweeper part, and the wands can be taken apart or lengthened to reach high spots (spider webs?). Anyway, as I was getting ready to put the wand-sweeper part away, one of the wands parted company with its nether part, and the wand I had in my hand hit me *SMACK* on the end of my nose.

After I got the bleeding stopped, I wrapped an icecube in a paper towel, and applied to the scene of the mishap. All the while thinking I was going to have a nose like W.C. Fields' the next day.

I guess the ice did it's job because my nose has only its "normal" lumps. But it's still a little sore.

Okay, so the next time (6 months from now, maybe?) I'll be sure the little knob on the one wand is firmly clicked into the hole of the attaching wand.

But, plese, don't anybody tell my daughter about this. She'll never let me live it down.

Shalom

7 Comments
  • From:
    Calantha (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 28 2005
    When you are logged in, you see an option called 'Export Diary' or something like that at the top and that saves your whole diary at one time. It saves code too, and you have to read from the bottom but it is all there.

    Oh ouch! on the vacuum cleaner thing. We all do things like that . . . I hope it doesn't hurt too badly!
  • From:
    Allimom (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 28 2005
    Try using the "First Entry" button. That should get you closer than having to go back month by month.
    Alli
  • From:
    Dreamerbooks2003 (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 28 2005
    I agree with calantha.. export it, and save it to a disk.. so you can search at your leisure.. I have no idea how to get to a certain date. that is a good one to address to the power that run this diary.. Steve? Why are you printing it out? Do you also print the comments??
    I never thought of doing that.. my ink is so expensive.. but you know you've given me a project to at least consider..


    *** oh my that vacuum incident had me worried as well as chuckling.. well, I am not laughing at you, but you have to admit.. it sounds just like something that would be a day in my life.. stranger than fiction.. ya know?.. I can picture it happening to me.. Oh yeah. My garden hose had attacked me more than once.. But, at least you learn by your mistakes.. I seem to be the one to repeat endlessly..
    :)
    have a great week chaya..
    love,
    peg

    PS
    good job on the <b> </b>.. see how fast you learn
    Dang good.. I'm gonna teach you colors..
    okay??
  • From:
    FishCreekBride (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 28 2005
    Bless your heart. Ouch! A hit on the nose hurts. Hopefully, you'll feel much better soon.
  • From:
    Dustbunny3 (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 28 2005
    I say SUE the MFG. Gee today you can make a million over hot coffee. Now no picking or blowing nose as it starts all over. Shame on me for I have been to many dumb lessons of hurt also.
    Take care now for I feel your pain for WHY did I do that
  • From:
    Sezrah (Legacy)
    On:
    Sun Aug 28 2005
    its nigh on impossible searching for entries on here, i've even tried on google and sometimes that works but mostly it doesn't, perhaps you could try that? type in deardiary.net, your user name and some of the key words. anyways, all the best

    sez

    p.s. fyi, afros are back in ;)
  • From:
    AeolianSolo (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Aug 31 2005
    The easiest way I've found to search for a particular entry is to log in, then go to "Update". It takes you to a screen with a pull-down menu containing ALL of your entries in reverse chronological order (and you can see all the titles).

    The only drawback is that it opens the entry in the editing screen. However, if you scroll down and click "OK", you go to the actual entry itself.

    I wish I'd saved all my entries on disk as I wrote them, because trying to make sense out of the exported document, with all its code, is really frustrating. I wish I could export my diary into a plain document format, with paragraphs and formatting included. I used to able to do that over on Open Diary when I was there for awhile (their server was constantly down, which is why I came over here).

    Sorry about your poor nose!

    --Solo