An unscheduled upgrade

I think I've grumbled before about Acrobat 6.0 Standard, or at least my own bad judgement in choosing it rather than paying the extra $50 for Professional (Education pricing). Last night, as I was beavering away on the thing for which Acrobat is an essential tool, I tried to start Distiller and it claimed to be trying to install something (a downloaded update, I think), then failed because the CD wasn't in. I couldn't put my hand on the installation CD, so I cancelled and got on with my work. It did the same thing again this morning. Then, about noon, after I'd been happily distilling and so forth all morning, Acrobat suddenly decided that I no longer had an Adobe PDF printer and it wanted to be reinstalled. Of course, it turned out the CD wasn't at the office after all. Cue panic, and contemplation of working at home for the afternoon, followed by a snap decision.

An hour or so, $150, and a few settling-in glitches later, the laptop was running Acrobat 7.0 Professional.

Of course, when I came home I went straight to the 6.0 CD. I probably would have upgraded eventually, anyway; the missing functionality in the standard version was an ongoing annoyance.

Note to developers: when I ask a program to 'remind me later' about something, I don't mean within the next five minutes!

Books Meme

Grabbing the chance offered by kate_nepveu:

1. Total Number of Books I've Owned:
Somewhere around 1500, I think, of which over 1000 are still in my possession here and 100 or so more back in England.

2. Last book bought:
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene, an impulse/emergency reading buy in a tiny airport newsstand.

3. Last book read (in the sense of finished):
The House of Storms, Ian R. MacLeod.

4. 5 books that mean a lot to me: (whatever that means)
Lord of the Rings
Life of Madame Curie
Jane Eyre
Middlemarch
Foreigner, C. J. Cherryh

5. 5 People to pass the meme on to:
aynathie, brisingamen, fivemack, green_knight, mrissa