Fuckadoodledoo

So I take my little pen drive to TY's office to go over the slides for my talk. We talk. We finish. he hits "Save" then pops out the pen drive. I go back to my computer and open the file.

Half the slides are now blank. Specifically, those slides with the elaborate Drawing bits are now blank.

Shit.

shitshitshitshitshit

Several backings and forthings later, I find that I can now only open the file in OpenOffice.

?!?

XP Powerpoint --> Mac Powerpoint --> OpenOffice?

And I can't paste from OO to ppt, nor can I import from ppt to OO. So I'm stuck trying to figure out the OpenOffice slide program, while fixing the pictures (because they're there, but they're not quite right) and trying to finish the thing.

Fuckadoodledoo.

I call on the "Screw the Pooch" icon for this one.