Stupidhead brain

I got a little work done on the edits that are due next week (I am in good shape with that actually), bujt I spent most of the day outlining a story that has caught my imagination but which I do not have time to write right now.

Hint: a figure inspired by Yane Sandanski, a backdrop inspired by the Miss Stone Affair, and a protagonist/love interest/whatever who is an itinerant photographer with a shady past, drawn into the scene by being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Set, of course, in the world of not-Poland, but not in not-Poland proper.

Also, through a convoluted process involving a friend's fourth anniversary, I have discovered hwajeon, Korean flower pancakes, and now I want to make them. But I have to admit that I am astonished that azaleas are considered edible food.

an open office annoyance

In Word Perfect I can have a setting to always save a file in its original format. WIth this, if I open a .doc, it will save as a .doc unless I tell it to do otherwise: if it opens as .rtf. it saves as .rtf.

Open Office does not have this setting. I can tell it to save all files as any one of a number of formats, or I can tell it to save an individual file as any one o a larger number of formats, but I can't set it up so I can sit back and let Open Office save the file in  the format it came in. Unless all the files are coming in exactly the same format, of course.

So I guess I'm setting it to save them all in .doc because that's the closest to what the editors are using (docx). I am sure that .odt is just as fine a format as the materials with Open Office say, but alas, I don't call the shots.

on another front, somebody on the block has a brand new electric guitar and they know four nice notes on it. Oh, there's a new drum set too. Clever children.