Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Out of Context - October 29, 2024

  • Look poor to be successful? No problem.  Who knew I was already on my way to success!

  • Every election: This is the best we got?

  • Wow!  These wolves not even pretending to be sheep anymore.

  • Not sure why we're taking advice from a "guru" whose background indicates they're in a hostage situation. 

  • YouTube should really have a mood filter.  How are you feeling today?  Can you handle bad news today?  Do you need sappy videos for a while?  Have you reached your limit of being exposed to stupidity today? Don't worry girl. I got you. If they already have this feature, please let me know.  

  • What's more annoying?  Ads or the popup blocker ads?

  • Just hit mute and head to the comments.

  • If you don't celebrate Halloween because it's pagan, shouldn't you also not celebrate Christmas and Easter? 

  • Starting to think the algorithm is showing me things out of spite.

  • Pretty sure I didn't learn my own generation's slang.  Doubtful that I will be learning another generation's.

Friday, October 18, 2024

Out of Context - October 18, 2024

A place for complaints, observations, and other things I don't currently know what to do with.  We'll politely refer to it as brainstorming.   
 
  • If you're video is five minutes long, I don't need a preview at the beginning of it only for it to be repeated in said video. 

  • That dude looks like Gowron. And not in a good way. 

  • Why do YouTubers say, "I'll see you ..."?  How exactly?  Do they have some kind of magical power that nobody else does?  What is the deal? I'm probably being too literal with this.

  • "It's squirrel awareness month."  Ugh.  Seriously?  You've been abusing this word for a while and now you're involving my beloved squirrels?  No thank you.  And why for the love of sanity do they need a month.  This society is completely ridiculous.  

  • I don't think I'm epileptic, but I swear the sound of that man's voice is giving me a brain disorder.  

  • Some people are like onions.  The more layers you peel back the more you cry.  (I don't know if all onions or all layers of an onion make you cry, but hopefully you get the gist.)

  • Not me wondering how much Kittl's advertising budget is.  

  • And then you see the evil of the world and know that God was always right and never wrong.

  • Is this how it was at the tower of Babel?  'Cause I don't know what these people are talking about.

  • Silently praying a crime?  How in the world do you know that someone is praying if they're doing it in silence?  Seems more like a crime for looking like you're praying.  Or someone thinking that you are praying.  

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

How to Underline to the Right Margin with Justified Alignment in Microsoft Word

Blogs/websites are supposed to provide helpful information.  This will have to be what I will point to as my helpful post.  There may be other or simpler ways to do this, but this is the only way I could come up with how to do it.  

I like full justified alignment.  Making fill in the blank worksheets with justified alignment was not working the way I wanted it to.  Everything would be fine until I would want to have a blank line at the end of the line on the right (with nothing after the blank on that line.)  

This is how I am now doing all of them regardless of where they are on the page.

This is done in Microsoft Word.  It may work other places, but I was unsuccessful everywhere else that I tried.

(Video at the end of this post.)

Decide where you want your blank(s).

I usually double the word.  What I mean by that is I type the word twice but as one word.  One of the words I put in all caps.  For example, underlineUNDERLINE.

Double click the word so that it is highlighted.

Expand out the Font Group.  

There is a dropdown menu under Underline Style.  Choose the style you want.

Use the Underline Color dropdown menu to choose the color for the line. This can differ from the color of the text you are using.  (Don't leave the color as 'Automatic'.  Choose a color.)

Click on the Text Effects button.

Choose Text Fill and make the Transparency 100%.

Once you've done this for one blank, you can use it to create a style so that you don't have to go through these steps for any subsequent blanks. (Unless you want the line to be a different color than the one you already have.)

Double click on the blank you made.

In the Styles Group, click on the More Button (or More Arrow - the down arrow with a line above it).

Click on Create a Style.

Rename (with something you will remember what it is for) or keep the name shown. 

Click OK.

Now that you've created a style, you can use the CTRL (control button) and double-click feature for multiple selections to choose multiple places you want the blank line to go.

Once you have your selections made, expand the Styles Group and choose the style that you made for your blank lines. You can do them individually, but if you have many blank lines to do, this will save time.

Save your document as a PDF.




Tuesday, August 27, 2024

You Need An About Me Page

You need an About Me page.  That's the message I'm getting.  Oh, hi! Welcome to my blog, Sweet Tea and Humidity.  Thanks for the visit. 

You need an About Me page.  I don't know why.  I don't check out About Me pages.  Well, I didn't before.  I have looked at some since the "gurus" seem to think they are important.   

Why do you need an about me page other than because somebody said you need an about me page?  It's supposed to be about becoming an authority (I think), but I'm not an authority.  On anything.    

One video said to make a list of 10 things to share about yourself.  But what could I possibly put about me that anyone would even be slightly interested to know that at the same time I am willing for them to know?  Umm.  Probably not much.  Since I don't have an About Me page as of yet, I'm going start the list here and let this be the first post on the blog.  If I ever make it to 10 things, maybe I'll have something to put on that About Me page.

A Few Things About Me
  1. This seems somewhat of a futile exercise since I don't usually go to About Me pages on other sites.  Of course, I also don't read many blogs.  
  2. I've gotten into ants more as an adult than as a child. An adult!  What kind of sense does that make?  I can see getting into ants as a child, but as an adult it's just embarrassing.
  3. Also as an Adult, my mother has told me that I was "full of ridiculousness".  AS AN ADULT.  She's told me this at least twice, and I don't remember why for either time.

You should put why you started this blog.  What do you want to help with people with?  Well, I've already said I'm not an authority on anything so we're going to be pretty limited on the helpfulness. What are your superpowers?  Ummm, none.  I don't have a superpower and if you think you do this is not where you want to be. 

As far as why I started this blog, it's a combination of learning how to do it and using it to promote what I have on sites like Etsy and Zazzle.  But it will probably end up being just me complaining  about random things interspersed with scripture, movies, and possibly things my grandma used to say.  

If you've made it to this post and there happens to be a place for comments, please comment on if and why you go to the About Me page of a blog/website.

Out of Context - October 29, 2024

Look poor to be successful? No problem.  Who knew I was already on my way to success! Every election: This is the best we got? Wow!  These w...