I had to download a legacy version of Scrivener because I have a legacy Big Mac. At this stage it is now officially Vintage!
Not only can I not download any version at all of Scrivener 3, I can no longer update my Big Mac operating system version 10.11.6 to anything newer.
I found that out last December when I got my 50% discount coupon for Scrivener in after my 2021 win.
The license thing appears to be random. The pop up has occasionally appeared in the past but only after I have turned off the computer and starting again from scratch (that is why I avoid doing it during November)
Whenever it happened in the past, I would just enter the licence number and it was then business as usual.
When I started all the jumping through hoops to get back access to my own stuff, I came across a support page that had separate fields for lost licence recovery depending on whether you bought the software before or after 26th June 2019. I had bought mine way back in 2013.
Meanwhile, the support geek told me the assorted ways to access my projects outside of Scrivener. I had been using the short cuts in Scrivener all along thinking that it was the only way to get to my stuff.
So I learn something new every day.
"How do I access my projects?
While Scrivener has convenience features for tracking the last few projects you've edited (e.g., the File > Recent Projects menu and the Open Recent button in the Project Templates window), these features should not be relied upon to manage your projects. Think of these commands as shortcuts to where your work is located on your computer, just like a shortcut on your Desktop/Dock is linking to a program saved in your Program Files/Applications folder. You should therefore familiarize yourself with where your projects are stored, should you ever have to do a full reinstall of your program (in which case the "recent" lists would be wiped). You will then have confidence in knowing precisely where everything is."
Most of the time when I am using Scrivener, I am offline because it is the number one productivity porn trick during November. That is why I simply hated the idea of using Gmail as Plan Z.
About the hospital - the one I stayed at is the flagship hospital. Most of the rooms on the upstairs wards are large double rooms with giant en suites and I always managed to get the window. The older hospitals had a lot more 4 bed wards. Single rooms were mainly for private patients or for those with contagious diseases.
At one point when the goblins were trying to get rid of me, I was moved down to the 'transit lounge' which is sort of a holding bay on the first floor where patients go when thy are a day or two from discharge. There are no separate rooms in that section just curtains dividing the beds. They can squeeze a lot more people in that way. I spent 2 nights in that noisy joint before being sent back up to the seventh floor where I got an even better room with a bigger window.
One fascinating but slightly disturbing aspect of the "transit lounge" was the giant whiteboard at the nurses' station. All the bed numbers were listed along with the names of the occupants, the date of arrival and expected departure along with the specialty. Most were in there for back issues. a couple of plastic surgeries and only one Gyno which was me. I was surprised that such fairly sensitive information was so publicly available
One of the patients was listed as XXX - maxillofacial. I was intrigued since everyone else had a name. That evening near midnight I was sitting in the lounge doing a Duolingo Blitz when a woman who looked like Frankenstein's monster waddled in with an IV drip in tow. She couldn't sleep and I couldn't either so we got to chatting.
She had come from emergency. Had been attacked by her ex at her flat and was lucky to be alive. He had smashed her face, nose and jaw. She was the mystery XXX and her name was kept hidden because her X who did it was still at large. He was arrested while i was still there so then the board changed back to her original name.
We were talking for ages. He had assaulted her in front of their 8 year old son. Her mum then took him (the kid) in. I did a lot of listening and not much talking. I guess she must have found it unusual and definitely refreshing not to be once again subjected to the usual "You will be fine" "everything happens for a reason" and of course the worst one of all "Why didn't you leave him?" (she actually had. He had been stalking her)
The jerk had made such a mess of her place that the cops had to send in the trauma cleaners. most of the mess was her blood!
I kept thinking to myself that I am so lucky the Grinch is 80 something. So while he is emotionally and mentally toxic, at least he no longer presents a physical threat to me. My mother was not so lucky.
Because of my years working in a nursing home, I was particularly interested in all the mundane day to day running of the place. I paid special attention to staffing ratios, hoists and other equipment used to move patients, the bathrooms, the wierd biodegradable bed pans and urinal bottles, the very strange wound dressings with strings attached leading to a little white box that would look more at home in an Apple Store. What looked like a wifi hot spot gadget was actually a mechanism for sucking air from a dressing to keep it dry.
And yes, about learning new stuff. You are either green and growing or brown and rotting.
It was curiosity and being in Martian mode that made everything so interesting and also a lot less stressful. I learnt fascinating tidbits like the pain medication gadgets patients are given immediately after an operation where you get to press a button if you feel pain but is set so you cannot OD (and of course the gadget keeps records of how often and when you use it) - the main ingredient is fentanyl! It apparently has the best balance of fast acting vs side effects.
I really must go back and read some of the stuff I wrote last year. Apart from the goal of clocking up the Nano word count, the other aim was as a sort of scientific experiment. a Green pensieve. I was paying attention to the things that made being in the Green Zone different than my usual neurotic jittery crazy state. The biggest difference of all was a sense of wonder and an ability to remain in the current moment instead of constantly being somewhere else in my head.
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branchandroot
The Mad Mac
Date: 2022-11-15 02:11 am (UTC)At this stage it is now officially Vintage!
Not only can I not download any version at all of Scrivener 3, I can no longer update my Big Mac operating system version 10.11.6 to anything newer.
I found that out last December when I got my 50% discount coupon for Scrivener in after my 2021 win.
The license thing appears to be random. The pop up has occasionally appeared in the past but only after I have turned off the computer and starting again from scratch (that is why I avoid doing it during November)
Whenever it happened in the past, I would just enter the licence number and it was then business as usual.
When I started all the jumping through hoops to get back access to my own stuff, I came across a support page that had separate fields for lost licence recovery depending on whether you bought the software before or after 26th June 2019. I had bought mine way back in 2013.
https://www.literatureandlatte.com/legacy-download?os=macOS
Meanwhile, the support geek told me the assorted ways to access my projects outside of Scrivener.
I had been using the short cuts in Scrivener all along thinking that it was the only way to get to my stuff.
So I learn something new every day.
"How do I access my projects?
While Scrivener has convenience features for tracking the last few projects you've edited (e.g., the File > Recent Projects menu and the Open Recent button in the Project Templates window), these features should not be relied upon to manage your projects. Think of these commands as shortcuts to where your work is located on your computer, just like a shortcut on your Desktop/Dock is linking to a program saved in your Program Files/Applications folder. You should therefore familiarize yourself with where your projects are stored, should you ever have to do a full reinstall of your program (in which case the "recent" lists would be wiped). You will then have confidence in knowing precisely where everything is."
Most of the time when I am using Scrivener, I am offline because it is the number one productivity porn trick during November. That is why I simply hated the idea of using Gmail as Plan Z.
About the hospital - the one I stayed at is the flagship hospital. Most of the rooms on the upstairs wards are large double rooms with giant en suites and I always managed to get the window.
The older hospitals had a lot more 4 bed wards. Single rooms were mainly for private patients or for those with contagious diseases.
At one point when the goblins were trying to get rid of me, I was moved down to the 'transit lounge' which is sort of a holding bay on the first floor where patients go when thy are a day or two from discharge. There are no separate rooms in that section just curtains dividing the beds. They can squeeze a lot more people in that way. I spent 2 nights in that noisy joint before being sent back up to the seventh floor where I got an even better room with a bigger window.
One fascinating but slightly disturbing aspect of the "transit lounge" was the giant whiteboard at the nurses' station. All the bed numbers were listed along with the names of the occupants, the date of arrival and expected departure along with the specialty. Most were in there for back issues. a couple of plastic surgeries and only one Gyno which was me.
I was surprised that such fairly sensitive information was so publicly available
One of the patients was listed as XXX - maxillofacial. I was intrigued since everyone else had a name. That evening near midnight I was sitting in the lounge doing a Duolingo Blitz when a woman who looked like Frankenstein's monster waddled in with an IV drip in tow. She couldn't sleep and I couldn't either so we got to chatting.
She had come from emergency. Had been attacked by her ex at her flat and was lucky to be alive. He had smashed her face, nose and jaw. She was the mystery XXX and her name was kept hidden because her X who did it was still at large. He was arrested while i was still there so then the board changed back to her original name.
We were talking for ages. He had assaulted her in front of their 8 year old son. Her mum then took him (the kid) in. I did a lot of listening and not much talking. I guess she must have found it unusual and definitely refreshing not to be once again subjected to the usual "You will be fine" "everything happens for a reason" and of course the worst one of all "Why didn't you leave him?" (she actually had. He had been stalking her)
The jerk had made such a mess of her place that the cops had to send in the trauma cleaners. most of the mess was her blood!
I kept thinking to myself that I am so lucky the Grinch is 80 something. So while he is emotionally and mentally toxic, at least he no longer presents a physical threat to me. My mother was not so lucky.
Because of my years working in a nursing home, I was particularly interested in all the mundane day to day running of the place. I paid special attention to staffing ratios, hoists and other equipment used to move patients, the bathrooms, the wierd biodegradable bed pans and urinal bottles, the very strange wound dressings with strings attached leading to a little white box that would look more at home in an Apple Store. What looked like a wifi hot spot gadget was actually a mechanism for sucking air from a dressing to keep it dry.
And yes, about learning new stuff. You are either green and growing or brown and rotting.
It was curiosity and being in Martian mode that made everything so interesting and also a lot less stressful. I learnt fascinating tidbits like the pain medication gadgets patients are given immediately after an operation where you get to press a button if you feel pain but is set so you cannot OD (and of course the gadget keeps records of how often and when you use it) - the main ingredient is fentanyl! It apparently has the best balance of fast acting vs side effects.
I really must go back and read some of the stuff I wrote last year. Apart from the goal of clocking up the Nano word count, the other aim was as a sort of scientific experiment. a Green pensieve. I was paying attention to the things that made being in the Green Zone different than my usual neurotic jittery crazy state. The biggest difference of all was a sense of wonder and an ability to remain in the current moment instead of constantly being somewhere else in my head.