Busy and productive week at work. Our new employee started Monday. She seems to be picking up things quickly, which is very nice. Her first week was a little more eventful than anyone expected, as she had a death in the family and had to miss a day and a half out of it. She was so worried about us being upset about that, but it's like "WTF, you ( Read more... )

Haha, yeah. Been a while. Not even going to try to catch up to absolutely everything that's happened since, gulp, February. So, the highlights: April - shingles. Ugh. Recovery took about 6 weeks. May - my shrink had me go off my sleep meds. >:( It sucks. I'm back to getting 4 hours of sleep a night on good nights. And it's hard getting my brain to ( Read more... )

I've been debating buying a netbook the past couple of days, so I could have a back-up for the laptop, and had half decided that something under $500 and maybe even under $400 would be acceptable as a compromise between price and functionality. My budget wouldn't be irretrievably broken and I'd have a back-up/travel alternative for the laptop. Then ( Read more... )

Turns out is was the hard drive that died, not a virus, so the laptop has been sent off to HP for repair. Which, still in warranty, yay!! Saves me major dollars as cleaning off a virus at Best Buy costs $250. Ugh ( Read more... )

My computer bit the dust last night. I don't know if it was a virus that my virus checker couldn't wrestle into submission or if it's just the fact that between Kaspersky and Windows Vista, the two tangled in a particularly ugly way while Kaspersky was trying to download an update with the virus checker shutting down Windows and Windows promptly ( Read more... )