Eight years ago, when I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, I decided to let all the hairs on my face have their way. Having never been able to grow what I would call a decent beard, I was shocked when this happened:
My first time growing a beard.
Over the last eight years, I have adjusted my beard for various events and occasions, but I really enjoyed having it.
8 years of beard and now it’s gone.
If you got this far, you might be wondering why my beard is gone. It’s kind of ironic that 8 years ago I grew a beard when I was diagnosed with cancer, and now I’ve had to lose the beard because of, yup, you guessed it—cancer. Without getting into a bunch of details, this time the cancer is located in my throat area. My wife Sheri and I have seen the surgical oncologists at UAMS, and I am not a candidate to have it surgically removed. That means the treatment will consist of chemotherapy and IMRT radiation. So starting Monday, May 16, 2022, I will have the first of 35 daily radiation treatments and the first of 7 weekly chemotherapy treatments. But why lose the beard? So my radiation mask will fit tight enough to hold my head in the correct position while I’m being cooked irradiated.
My custom fit thermoplastic radiation mask.
During the consult, the doctor told me that although this type of cancer is very curable, the treatment is no walk in the park. He actually looked right at Sheri and told her that at about week three of treatment I would turn into an “asshole”. Sheri just looked at him and shrugged her shoulders; I am still wondering how I should take her response. I’m not even going to tell you my daughter Khara’s response.
So now for the good news: the type of cancer I have has a curable rate of 80 to 90 percent. Although there will be some permanent side effects, like mild loss of hearing and I might sound a little different as I will be losing a little bit of the base of my tongue.
But the best news is that in about 8 weeks I will be growing a beard again because you know, I really miss my beard.
Life goes on, brother.
Wayne Berry
The above quote is often said by a good friend of mine, Wayne Berry, and reminds me to take everything and everyone in stride. God Bless.
Open Terminal.app, type cd and then drag and drop the root directory containing the folder structure containing files to rename into the Terminal window. If needed, confirm you’re in the correct directory, type ls and hit enter. You will see a list of all files in the directory.
I used this to rename multiple files in multiple folders within a single directory to change files that were named “xx.PDF” to “xx.pdf” Paste this code and hit enter:
find . -type f -name "*.PDF" -exec sh -c 'mv "$1" "${1%.PDF}.pdf"' _ {} \;
This issues the “find” command from the base directory of your directory structure containing the PDF files, or specify that directory in place of the “.” right after “find” in the above line of code.
If you receive the message “Content Preparation Progress.Please wait while the document is being prepared for reading.” when opening PDF documents in Adobe Acrobat DC, you may solve this in one of two ways:
If you do not need screen reading technologies: a. Go to Edit > Preferences > Accessibility. b. Under “Other Accessibility Options” disable “Enable assistive technology support”.
If you do need assistive/screen reading technologies: a. Go to Edit > Preferences > Reading. b. Under “Screen Reader Options” select “Only read the currently visible pages”.
To open Terminal, go to Applications > Utilities > Terminal
Go to the folder where the file is located, in my case Desktop/
~/Desktop/test
Unzip the file (my filename is presentation.pptx)
unzip presentation.pptx
If that doesn’t work, rename the presentation.pptx to presentation.zip and try the above procedure, of course with the correct file name!
Now you should see 3 folders in finder (docProps, _rels and ppt) and an additional file (.xml). If you go in to the folder “ppt” you will find a folder “media”. That folder will contain all media files, which includes pictures/photos/soundbites and your videos!
Ok, it is not all that hard to share your Outlook for Windows calendars with Outlook for Mac, but there will always be a few annoyances. With that said let’s get this done!
This is for people with a common Microsoft Exchange account only! This method eliminates setting up individual deligates as described here and here
These instructions are only for sharing an Outlook for Windows calendar with people using the Outlook for Mac App on a Mac computer.When using Outlook for iOS(iPhone, iPad, etc.) or the online version of Outlook, calendars will share without any “extra” steps or help.
Outlook users on Windows must share their top personel calendar folder with selected Mac Outlook users before other calendars can be shared.
To do this right click on your Main Top Calendar go to Sharing Permissions…
Outlook Outlook 365 for Windows – Select Sharing Permissions…
In the Calendar properties dialog box under the permissions tab you need to add the person or persons that you want to share calendars.
Outlook Outlook 365 for Windows – Select Add… to add people to share your calendars.
Use search or scroll to find the name of the person you want to share your calendar. Select that person and select Add, when you are done adding people, select OK.
Outlook 365 for Windows –
When your back to the permissions tab select the person or persons you have added and adjust their permissions if necessary. I recommend selecting “Can view when I’m busy” for your top personal Calendar. Select Apply and OK when done.
CORRECTION NOTE ON ABOVE: If the permission setting here is “Can view when I’m busy” when the mac user adds the calendar to Outlook for mac all the categories colors will be white/nothing and very hard to see calendar items. Therefore I recommend using “Can view all details” for the initial permission setting for all people in your Top personal Calendar. Doing this will allow category colors to show in your shards calendar. (although they will NOT match the original shared calendar colors) – It is possable to switch the mac user permissions back after they have loaded the shared calendar, but if they ever have to delete and re-open the shared calendar the catagory colors will not be available.
Outlook for 365 Windows – Adjust permissions for people.
NOTE: When “Can view when I’m Busy” or “Can view titles and locations” is selected. People using Outlook on MAC Computers will NOT see any items on your calendar. This is a known issue with Microsoft. Choose one of the other options if you want people to view your calendar while they are using a Mac computer. Again, the online outlook and the moblie app will show calendar items as they should.
NOTE FOR CLAYTON:There is a known issue with Outlook for the Mac where granting someone Free/Busy or Limited Details access to your calendar will not allow the person you are sharing with to see any information on your calendar at all, including Free/Busy. Outlook for Mac users may grant reviewer permissions or higher to colleagues who need access to their calendar information.
WARNING: Every time you change permissions or add a new person Outlook for Windows will send an email to that person informing them.
Step 2 Create a custom calendar to share
Below, using Outlook 365 for Windows, I created a custom calendar called ConRoomShare by right-clicking on My Calendars>New Calendar. After creating ConRoomShare I moved it by right-clicking and selecting Move Down until was in my Shared Calendars Group.
Outlook 365 for Windows – Created New calendar to share and moved to the shared calendars group.
Share your new CUSTOM Calendar.
Now you’re ready to share your new custom calendar. You will share it the same way you just shared your Top Personal calendar.
Right-click the calendar you want to share.
Choose Sharing Permissions…
Choose Add..
Add Users and click OK
Select Users and adjust permissions. Choose “Can view all details” as a minimum. Select Apply and OK.
Step 3 Mac Computer users must do the following to view a shared calendar.
After a Windows user shares a calendar with you and you have to accept the share. Then it will automatically show up on your iOS device and your Outlook Online account.
To view the shared calendar with Outlook for Mac you must do the following steps. Open Outlook on your Mac computer. Select Open Shared Calendar as shown below. Select the person that sent you the shared calendar by typing their name into the search field. Select their name when it pops up in the list then select Open.
Outlook 365 for Mac – Open Shared calendar by selecting the person that shared the calendar.
Your Shared Calendar will appear as seen below. If you get one or two popups just choose to allow or continue.
Outlook 365 for Mac – Shared calendars will appear under the person that shared.
Your permissions for the calendar will determine if you can only view or if you can make changes or add items. You can check and see the permissions that are assigned to you by the person that shared the calendar. Right-click on the calendar and choose permissions.
Outlook 365 for Mac – Viewing permissions assigned to a shared calendar.
Choose your name in the Permissions list. You view permissions you have assigned. Only the calendar owner can change permissions.
Outlook 365 for Mac – View permissions assigned to a shared calendar.
