<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=402184" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The 'Poem' Project</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trying to convert poems, one format to another, plenty of headaches and bother.<br>A good friend helped with the issue, probably wished he hadn't agreed to.! <br>We weren't exactly the 'computer generation', as we tried to find a solution. <br>After all it couldn't be hard, so we thought, a lesson we'd be taught.! ! <br>Discussing the problem, telephone and email, it became the 'holy grail'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Formatting, copy, paste and scans, ideas, theories and part plans.! <br>Information read, advice requested, the 'poem' project we underestimated! <br>Errors, glitches, testing and trials, through scratching heads and 'gritted' smiles. <br>Bad and some good luck, we'd get a bit cocky, then again we got stuck! <br>Short lived success and celebrations, then frustrations and exasperations., <br>One step forward, then three or four back, deep breaths, and a 'renewed attack'.! <br>Down loads, files, programmes, amid the the mental tantrums. <br>At our wits end, those computers sent us round the bend. <br>Those silicon chip sods, laughed at us like demon 'gods'. <br>At our attempts to solve the issue, as frustrations grew! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Settings and defaults, oh memories of old 'nuts 'n' bolts'! ! <br>Those days were long gone, back to deciphering the silicone, <br>Frowns and mental anguish, those digital rascals had a 'death wish'. <br>Finding a solution mattered, in the process we got our heads battered.<br>On and on we battled, until the problem was settled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Success came of our endeavours, against those callous computers. <br>It had been haphazard, hours on the mouse and keyboard.<br>Mentally battered and physically drained, our 'mouse fingers' strained.! <br>Twitches and withdrawn faces, those contraptions put us through our paces.<br>Our 'thousand yard stares', ready are our slippers, gowns, rocking chairs. <br>For that rest home and T.V. room, we may be occupying very soon.!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Guy+Lipmore">Guy Lipmore</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=402184" data-title="The 'Poem' Project de Guy Lipmore" data-description="Trying to convert poems, one format to another, plenty of headaches and bother. A good friend helped with the issue, probably wished he hadn't agreed to.! We weren't exactly the 'computer generation', as we tried to find a solution. After all it..."></div> </div> </div>

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