STUPIDITY TRUMPS TECHNOLOGY, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S CURABLE.

Hello, bookies,

Very good news! Thanks to reader Michael Haynes, I am able to cut-and-paste my bookstore-ies from Microsoft Word directly to this blog-box. Well, I was able to do it before St. Michael's suggestion, but I was too stupid to know it.

Michael came into the store yesterday with daughter Crysta and son Aiden. Crysta, along with her older sister Caitlin, has kept our staff in Girl Scout cookies for years. Michael asked me to show him how the cut-and-paste wouldn't work. Christine and Brahmi were taking care of the customers in the store, so I took him behind the counter. On my laptop, I cut, I pressed "Ctrl" and "V" to paste. And it pasted. What the hell?!! Wish someone would have taken a photo of my astonished face when the text appeared. Michael laughed and said, "I'm glad I could help." Couldn't help shaking my head several times in amazement...and embarrassment.

After thanking him profusely, much to the amusement of his kids who already know daddy is a hero, I began looking forward to seeing if this magic technique would work on my home desktop, where I was originally unsuccessful at the C&P. Voila! It worked at home as well, where my store-ies are filed.

In my next post, I'll begin C&P-ing some of my many bookstore-ies.

Thanks to those of you who made suggestions with this problem -- you know who you are, Liam -- which wasn't a tech prob at all, but my techno-illiteracy: when facing a problem, reboot and try again. Duh.

Bookstore George