Ye Gods. Someone get me a .45 so I can just shoot my laptop & put it & me out of our shared misery? (Just shooting the laptop.) Seriously. As amusingly surreal as it may be to type out a sentence & then spend the next five minutes watching it slowly appear letter-by-letter on my screen, it gets old after a while. And twenty minutes to load a ( Read more... )

Got that last post posted just in time. It came up, I checked it to see that the link worked & my machine spontaneously re-booted itself. I shit you not. (hence my sudden disappearance on you, hetmana93In other news, I have finally seen Garden State. I will own the soundtrack in very short order. And I'm totally in love with Zach Braff. Meanwhile, Sam ( Read more... )

GeekBro handed me a network card today to put in my desktop to see if that would help it find the internet. Lo & Behold! IT did indeed find the internet. Yay ( Read more... )

Holy Fucking Hell! How many damn registry keys does one fucking piece of shit program actually *need* anyway ( Read more... )

Blech. Yesterday was a banner day for my family showing me what a dunce/bitch/fuck up they think I am. Yay ( Read more... )

Could somebody kick Mercury's retrograde ass please ( Read more... )

I love days where I get up before noon- I tend to be very productive. For exampled, I called in refills for my scripts- well before they're going to run out, even. I scheduled my yearly exam with the local poor folks ob/gyn office. I called the jeweler to see how things were progressing on my application for the apprenticeship (they're waiting ( Read more... )

End of the book, that is. I'm on the last appendix- yay! I'll be able to PDF it & get it sent to Skip so he can proof it by the end of the week, barring any disasters. It won't be *done* done until he goes through it & tells me what I need to fix & I fix them, but it's still pretty damn close. Which will make him, me, and vediskoerner all very happy campers ( Read more... )

So just about every day for the last two weeks I've been trying to e-file my tax return. Every time the program would hang up- to the point I had to reboot my laptop to be able to do anything else. When this happens when it involves something trying to connect to the internet, there's only one suspect-- Norton. I have come to the conclusion that ( Read more... )

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