fun with google maps

ganked from boutell: google maps directions from NYC to Dublin, Ireland.

and, because i'm still obsessing about my new place, this map shows you what my primary travel corridor will be starting monday. the green pin is Ruta Maya. (their official street address isn't quite where they're actually located, so i tweaked the pin a bit.) the yellow pin is my place. and the red pin is my office. note my grueling 9 minute commute! (okay, in rush hour traffic it'll take more like 15.)

i keep talking to the cats about the apartment. "you're going to love it," i assure them. "it has six windows you can look out of, and there'll be trees with squirrels and birds to watch, and people walking by, and plenty of sunbeams to lie in. and it'll be all ours, just the three of us!" i've even promised Mr. Slim that i'll put the computer monitor -- his favorite napping place -- right in front of the window by the front door, so he can keep an eye out for intruders. he is, after all, ever-vigilant and on the lookout for Danger.

i really am a tragic figure, aren't i?

choose your spirit animal...

or at the very least:

Watch me turn into a
Hyena at YouWild.org

it's kinda amusing.

calling FrameMaker gurus

so here's the thing: i want, quite reasonably, to have the title page for my book to contain all the necessary formats etc., so if i change stuff i only have to change it in one place and then import those formats to the rest of the files in the book. the trouble is, this is not actually happening in a reliable fashion. paragraph formats, ToC structures, etc. are getting lost in translation, and i can't figure out why. i don't know much about reference pages, so it's possible i'm just doing something wrong, but i've been over and over the doc and i can't find any obvious explanations.

i'm using 7.2 on XP Pro, if that makes any difference. any wisdom on dealing with this kind of flakiness would be appreciated....