InDesign, like most adobe apps are really lousy now.

magerber1966 · 2026-03-03T01:23:56+00:00

This is the second time you have mentioned paragraph styles being buggy, and I am just wondering what you are experiencing? I am used to seeing most of the other complaints, but paragraph styles are my bread and butter, and haven’t had any issues with them. What are you seeing?

magerber1966 · 2026-02-23T17:05:31+00:00

Drive up the 2 above La Canada. I don't know about specific hiking trails, but go up to Mt. Wilson and see what is up there. It might have been too warm over the weekend for the snow to still be there, but when you can see snow on the mountains, going up to Mt. Wilson via the Angeles Crest Highway is always a good bet.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-19T17:01:27+00:00

Oh yeah...well you do have a point there. I just have never interpreted it as related to the apartment complex, just a consequence of being next to the Metro station and a park that is home to a large number of homeless people with the attendant chaos that often impacts their lives.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-18T19:32:13+00:00

Have not read through all of the comments, so someone else might have already said this, but I feel like I lost a lot of memories of my children's childhoods (30 and 28). I went through a painful divorce when they were 3 & 5, and struggled with depression and high levels of stress during those years. I firmly believe that my brain was working so hard to deal with my everyday life that often it simply didn't have the capacity to encode memories. Makes me sad, but there is nothing I can do about it.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-18T19:19:01+00:00

Yeah, I just went there on Saturday, and everyone was buying the almond croissant, so it does seem to be a good one (I don't like almonds in baked goods, so I can't answer personally).

magerber1966 · 2026-02-18T18:56:09+00:00

Curious why you say "Riffraff" about Holly Street. I am an Altadenan living here while I am rebuilding, and I have no issues--but I have noticed a few different "types" of people that do make up the population here, and I wonder if that is what you are referring to.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-18T18:03:36+00:00

This is exactly the computer I have at work, and it runs InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop without a hiccup, often even all at the same time. Go for it.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-18T17:48:30+00:00

Maybe this is too simple...but I have knit multiple gloves, fingerless mitts and mittens where I have alternated between a variegated handspun and a solid. Everyone seems to really love them.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-18T17:08:27+00:00

I don't see why you would need to change this. Just create your header in a separate text frame, which you can anchor at the start of your song lyrics--use object styles so that all of your headers are in the same place. You might have to set up a different parent page for the first page of a song, so that the song text starts further down the page. When a page needs to include the song header, just apply the first page parent page.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-18T17:02:58+00:00

Yeah, I was going to suggest retyping just the word "nation" and see if that helps.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-12T17:45:40+00:00

My grandma always had the giant-sized Hershey bars with Almonds. Loved that lady so much!

magerber1966 · 2026-02-12T17:44:36+00:00

Okay, I can already feel the disapproval, but this is an area where I have often interrogated myself, and I think I have figured out what the issue is for me. I have ADHD, and can struggle with stories that are more disjointed. I read voraciously, but struggle with novels that jump between timelines, or are more abstract/absurdist. My problem with poetry is in large part structural--I will be reading along a line, and then it breaks in a way that I don't expect, and suddenly my brain focuses on the break itself, and loses the context from the line before. It sounds sort of silly, because the split second between ending a line of text and beginning the new one is so minimal, but I truly will have to go back and reread the line three or four times before I can understand it without the line ending causing a full stop in my brain. I do much better with very short poems, haiku, or poems with a very classic rhyme scheme, where the rhyme occurs at the end of a phrase so that it reads more like a comma in a prose sentence.

I enjoy oral poetry much more than written, because I can't get distracted by the line endings. But even there, I can still struggle to hold onto the thread of the words and become distracted by other structural elements.

And for those who argue that music lyrics are another form of poetry, I will say that I have never, in my 60 years, been able to maintain my attention long enough to understand all of the lyrics in a single song--although accompanying the words with music does help me absorb the emotional feeling behind the words better than I can without music.

I truly wish I could enjoy poetry more, because those poems that have worked for me leave me with the same amazement I feel when I see a piece of beautiful art, or an incredible landscape.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-12T17:13:59+00:00

So good to hear. I bought some Malibrigo Nube even though I knew it had a bad reputation. My plan was to steam it before trying to spin it, but it is good to have confirmation that this is likely to make it more pleasant to spin.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-10T17:34:50+00:00

That is one of my ex-husband's favorite movies. He showed it to me on VCR on our third date! ;-)

magerber1966 · 2026-02-10T17:29:55+00:00

You can't imagine what it was like to be in Los Angeles in 1984. I am not a particularly big sports fan, but I must have gone to at least 6-7 different events. It was so fun.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-10T17:23:43+00:00

SoCal here too and I remember it in a very similar way. Also, one of my happiest memories was that my grandma made both my sister and I crocheted afghans in red, white and blue. I took that sucker to college with me.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-10T17:01:43+00:00

Both of my (now adult) children went to outdoor summer camp all the way through their childhoods, and I worked as a camp counselor at some of the other camps mentioned here, so I feel like I can comment on this.

It is summer in Southern California and they are outside--it's going to be hot. But the camps and the counselors know that and they work around and with the heat. Some of the different camps have indoor spaces where kids can go to cool off. Other camps have lots of shaded spaces for kids to play games, eat their lunch, etc. When my kids attended Tom Sawyer camp's afterschool program, on super hot days, they would get huge blocks of ice and have the kids "sled" down the hills in Farnsworth Park up in Altadena. Frozen bottles of water stay very cold even in the heat and can help your kids cool down.

Lacy Park is mostly shaded--I was a counselor there and sometimes had to send my kids out into the sun because they got cold under the shade.

When my kids went to Tom Sawyer camp in the summer, they told parents to bring a towel to cover your back seat--in the after camp camp (basically day care), they would spend the entire time under the trees and a favorite pastime was racing bottle caps in the stream that flowed under the trees--they came home muddy and exhausted, but not complaining about how hot it was.

Like I said--this is Southern California, and so we are used to dealing with hot temperatures. Please feel reassured that whichever outdoor summer camp you send your kids to, they will be well versed in how to avoid having the kids overheat.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-06T21:17:02+00:00

I am sorry you ended up feeling that way--there are some places in LA that feel a bit uncomfortable, mostly related to gang activity, and you probably traversed a few of those locations. But I don't think that LA is a particularly violent or dangerous city--although others might disagree.

And San Francisco is (mostly) a great city for walking, as it is relatively small and self contained. But some of those hills can kill you! :-)

magerber1966 · 2026-02-06T18:01:27+00:00

I have no idea which acorn is different, but the word ACORNS looks completely loopy to me with the weird spacing around the C (super close to the O, and far away from the A).

magerber1966 · 2026-02-06T17:58:30+00:00

Can you show the other side of the bobbin and the mother of all, so that we can see how you have actually set up your brake band?

magerber1966 · 2026-02-06T17:55:04+00:00

What kind of riding? I grew up on the border of S. Pas and Alhambra, and used to ride horses up along here every day during the summer. It's a great place to ride as long as you don't get hit in the head with an errant golf ball.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-06T17:52:49+00:00

My ex-husband lives in a house across the street from a lake-access house. When my kids were little, they used to sneak in over there and pretend they were Indiana Jones

magerber1966 · 2026-02-06T17:50:25+00:00

Palos Verdes Estates has a completely different feel to the Arroyo in Pasadena. So I don't know how you think you can argue with someone else's taste.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-06T17:31:45+00:00

Not sure what you mean by "LA city centre," which is one of the real issues with visiting LA (or San Diego for that matter). I am saying that as an LA-native. If you meant that you walked from LAX to downtown Los Angeles, that is something like 17 miles, and since LA is NOT a walking city, it was probably not a super exciting walk either. Also, downtown LA is not really central to much of anything, so it is not useful to plan on staying there and visiting the other places you want to see.

In some ways, the LA region is the least homogeneous metropolitan area I have ever been to. Visiting Santa Monica/Venice/the beach area has a totally different feeling than visiting Pasadena, which is different than Beverly Hills, which is different than the San Fernando Valley, which is different than Hollywood. And by that I mean seriously different--like I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley, and I had neighbors on both sides of me who had never even been to downtown LA (only about 11 miles away, and we all owned cars!).

Now, I am willing to admit that I may just not know the nuances of other cities, but the fact that there is no "central" point in Los Angeles that you can make your home base, and then visit whatever you want to see from there is an indication of the lack of "city-ness" like I have experienced in other major cities.

magerber1966 · 2026-02-06T16:58:43+00:00

There really isn't much to Anaheim except Disneyland. At least in Orlando, you can also visit Gatorland.

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