Clouds drifting by

Cataracts are annoying. Cataracts and astigmatism are doubly annoying, and make it hard to read black writing on a white background.

I got around it by using Arial Black font for awhile but even that's a strain at times. I found you can set up Word documents to have a black background with chunky Arial Black font in white. It's so much easier to read! Okay, it means copy and paste ad infinitum, but aaah the relief!

Open a Word document, click on Design, and pick Page Color to change it. I always save a blank copy with my preferences (page colour and font) on my desktop for easy access.

So, if you know anyone who might find this handy, pass it on.

I really dislike seeing animated gifs or icons on a page while I'm trying to read text. I find them distracting. Normally, I just hit 'escape' and that stops them, but if I'm reading a message board and a frequent poster an animated icon, it's annoying to have to hit 'escape' for every page.

Then a poster on fandom_secrets posted a way to automatically turn off all gifs/animated icons on Firefox, Opera, and IE! Click the cut if you want to read how.

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