Pictures!

Here's some pics from Rebecca and Jared's wedding reception at their lovely home in Derry. Things to note: that's one kick-ass wedding pie (TROGDOR!), the gaming guys are *so*, so geeky, and our picture of the crafting ladies came out just lovely :)
http://diabolis.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=213

Here's some pics from last night - some of the Mara Jade and some of the Trooper Groupie. I wish I didn't take such bad posed pictures; I always have such stupid expressions on my face:
http://tk7602.com/gallery/index.php?cat=6

The red Aragorn surcoat for Brian is done (whee)! I just have to alter the top of the black one (going to play with more muslin a bit tonight before cutting off the actual surcoat) and then I have to hem, sew more gold trim, and its done . . . whee!

MS Access, help!

I'm having this annoying problem in MS Access that I've been having for a while (only today did I work on it enough to figure out yes its a problem, and not just me being forgetful).

Each month I read in large database files (.txt format) into an Access database. They aren't so huge that Access can't handle them however. In Access I have templates saved to format the file in the proper layout - you know 'file - get external data - import' and then click advanced in the wizard to select a template.

Each year these templates change - the insurance companies add new data fields to the files. In the past I've been able to open an old template, make changes and then "save as". I should be able to either overwrite the old template or make a completely new one. This isn't working - my changes aren't saving.

Its extending to new templates too . . . I tried to just start from scratch and I wasn't able to save a new template (it saved the template under the requested name, but only saved the first field). Dammit! I need to read these files in . . . they are too big for me to manually put in column markers (40 data fields).

Has anyone ever seen this before? Perhaps its Access being buggy? Maybe I have a virus (this is the only problem I've been having)? I'm in the process of compounding/repairing the database, hoping perhaps it will help (its a large file - 1,064,512 K). It shouldn't be this big mind you . . . and trying to compact/repair just freezes everything in my computer!

Ugh

My hard drive is full - that may explain why my computer is being buggy :/ . Something is causing my Access files that shouldn't be too huge to be gigantic. Trying to compact/repair kills my computer. Trying to zip doesn't work, because it can't create the file (because the hard drive is too big).

Here's hoping IS shows up soon . . . I'm getting REALLY bored sitting here and trying to figure things out on my own.