Moar dentistry
So at 8:30 am, I plonked down in a chair and started the wait. (Receptionist: "Again?" Me: "Yes. Again.") And about an hour later, there was time to make a new crown and shove it in my mouth. This one feels better than the first one and does seem to be staying in place. For now.
Otherwise, it's better. Much. My mom wanted to hit the store that afternoon, so we took off, got her stuff done, came home, and about an hour later I was zonked. And stayed that way for a long, long, long time. I realized that I hadn't had much to eat (aaahhh, food), but I hadn't really noticed that I'd not been getting much sleep while this was going on. /groggy
I'd also not been getting any work done. Instead, I decided to do maintenance-type things on the machine. My antivirus software had been nagging me to upgrade to the next version; after I did, it stopped working rather abruptly -- error messages, lock ups, the works. So I tried to uninstall it (unsuccessfully) and go back to the previous version (also unsuccessfully). After some wrestling with that, I gave up on it and switched over to different software. The latter software slowed my machine to a crawl; I spent a lot of time staring at the Hourglass of Doom, waiting for a few keystrokes to take, and fiddling with the settings. No luck.
So I uninstalled the second one, tried (again unsuccessfully) to go back again to the original software, and wound up installing a third company's software. I'm not incredibly pleased with third software either, and I'm still getting periodic lockups and slowdowns. I have to reboot a lot more often now, which has the (questionable) benefit of making me even MORE paranoid about saving constantly.
I also did my drive back-up to the portable, which I'd put off for over a month. Phew. A few months back, I'd installed some software to do things like cleaning off unwanted files and fixing the registry, and a defragger that works in increments in the background, and those have been great -- nice to see something working well around here for a change. :D
So now I'm back to pounding away at articles, trying to make up for lost time.
While I was on a break, I wrestled with FFnet last night. The Pit of Voles system seems weirdly complex to me; each time I upload something I have to figure out from scratch how to do it, and the learning curve feels awfully steep. It's difficult and unintuitive to edit documents there. I wonder if one of the site goals is to make uploading so twisty and complexicated that only the Most Dedicated Voles won't be frightened away. On the plus paw, you feel an odd sense of accomplishment when you finally get it over with. I was very surprised to discover that there was an existing category for me -- of which I appear to be the sole occupant. Uh.
Otherwise, it's better. Much. My mom wanted to hit the store that afternoon, so we took off, got her stuff done, came home, and about an hour later I was zonked. And stayed that way for a long, long, long time. I realized that I hadn't had much to eat (aaahhh, food), but I hadn't really noticed that I'd not been getting much sleep while this was going on. /groggy
I'd also not been getting any work done. Instead, I decided to do maintenance-type things on the machine. My antivirus software had been nagging me to upgrade to the next version; after I did, it stopped working rather abruptly -- error messages, lock ups, the works. So I tried to uninstall it (unsuccessfully) and go back to the previous version (also unsuccessfully). After some wrestling with that, I gave up on it and switched over to different software. The latter software slowed my machine to a crawl; I spent a lot of time staring at the Hourglass of Doom, waiting for a few keystrokes to take, and fiddling with the settings. No luck.
So I uninstalled the second one, tried (again unsuccessfully) to go back again to the original software, and wound up installing a third company's software. I'm not incredibly pleased with third software either, and I'm still getting periodic lockups and slowdowns. I have to reboot a lot more often now, which has the (questionable) benefit of making me even MORE paranoid about saving constantly.
I also did my drive back-up to the portable, which I'd put off for over a month. Phew. A few months back, I'd installed some software to do things like cleaning off unwanted files and fixing the registry, and a defragger that works in increments in the background, and those have been great -- nice to see something working well around here for a change. :D
So now I'm back to pounding away at articles, trying to make up for lost time.
While I was on a break, I wrestled with FFnet last night. The Pit of Voles system seems weirdly complex to me; each time I upload something I have to figure out from scratch how to do it, and the learning curve feels awfully steep. It's difficult and unintuitive to edit documents there. I wonder if one of the site goals is to make uploading so twisty and complexicated that only the Most Dedicated Voles won't be frightened away. On the plus paw, you feel an odd sense of accomplishment when you finally get it over with. I was very surprised to discover that there was an existing category for me -- of which I appear to be the sole occupant. Uh.