"What are you doing in my house?"

[muckefuck]

Today ended much better than it began. The inspection went well, we turned over the rest of the earnest money, and monshu and I seem to have settled on a lender and gotten our paperwork together. At 2 p.m., the old man was ready to kill someone; after dinner at Uncommon Grounds (I really need to do a post on the restaurants in that 'hood now that I've got three or four to talk about), he was back to his sweet lovable self.

Naturally, there were a few more bumps on the road to Wellville. Half-an-hour before the inspection was over, a downpour drove the owners out of the park and onto their back porch. The thought of their bedraggled children shivering in the open air haunted us, so I went to tell them that as we were completely finished in the lower level, they should feel free to occupy it. Their young girl looked at me and said, "What are you doing in my house?" "I'm just visiting for a bit!" I said sweetly and fled back into the house as her mother, chagrined, excused her saying, "You know, four year-olds!" Goddess only knows how her parents explained away the hairy strangers going through their things.

I've lost count of how many times I've said "Poor monshu!" through all of this, but he really had a tale of woe this morning. Unbeknownst to him, there was a limit set on the size of files he could scan and PDFify through the office copier. (No warning message, so he found out only after running back and forth several times only to find nothing there). When we got home and called up my tax data, I was like, "Isn't there a way to just send him a file? I mean, printing this out, scanning it, and then e-mailing would just be stupid."

"That's what I ended up doing."

*Da opens TaxAct*

*Da immediately finds "Save as PDF" option*

monshu: "Well, shit."

Comments

[lhn.livejournal.com]

Printing-and-scanning documents hurts me like rhyming verse that makes no attempt to scan. :-) Even if your program doesn't have a built-in PDF option, there are all sorts of free PDF-making programs that will pretend to be a printer. All you have to do is select File->Print and send the document to the imaginary printer, and presto! instant PDF. PDF Creator is a well-regarded one; I've also used PDF995, though that puts up a pop-up ad for every PDF you make unless you pay ten bucks to register it.

[fengshui.livejournal.com]

CutePDF Writer is also a good one: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp.

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

Second on CutePDF.

[lifeandstuff.livejournal.com]

When I was doing my house, I tried to e-mail my lawyer some sort of financial documents rather than print and FAX (because like you and lhn, that just hurts me).

IIRC, I e-mailed it to him as a jpg (though I can't remember why not a pdf). When I got to his office a week later, he said he "couldn't read it".

So, I hopped on his computer for him, popped it up by double-clicking on it and he said "how did you do that?".

It then turned out he still "couldn't read it" because it was too large and scrolled off his screen and he didn't know what to do about that. So, I resized it and printed it out for him on his own computer.

Once he had a hard copy, he was fine. :)

[lifeandstuff.livejournal.com]

Oh, by the way, your story is a great story. It made me giggle. Didn't mean to forget to mention that. :)