My own hubris has bitten me on the b***

I haven't written for a while, in fact since I completed my last novel. For reasons I never even thought about I never told anyone about it. The result of this was that I haven't sold a single copy. Although I might have sold dozens, but as I haven't been onto Amazon's sales site for ages, I don't know.

    That isn't the hubris part - that's just bone idleness.

    About three years ago I bought a piece of WP software called Textmaker. It's German and apart from the rather limited English dictionary, it's superior in every way to that bloated whale, MS Word. And it's definitely cheaper at about 30 quid for the whole suite. 

   It was, and is great - until yesterday.

    For the past few months I've been messing about with computer languages, and now, after learning eight, I've settled upon Java.

    Yesterday I decided to bite the bullet and put it to the test by coding my own scientific calculator. All went well until discovering that one has to copy and paste the appropriate button symbols from - of all things - Word.

    No probs, said I, I'll just do it from Textmaker.

    Except that it doesn't have the one's I want. I've tried downloading a few free WPS progs overnight and none of them are any good, either. Even the myriad sites from which I can download free calc buttons, not one has the specific one I want.
    
    I absolutely refuse to buy into that big overblown program of which I will not mention, so only one option is left to me.

    Plan B is pac-man game. It's nowhere near the same thing but I simply refuse to take out a mortgage for a month of that other program.