After a very stressful week, plus an impossible workload and a collection of intransigent technology, I'm kinda wiped.  So since I sent off the work due this morning, I'm skipping classes and I am going to do the simple things.  Clean my room.  Do the accumulating dishes.  Laundry.  Get my new computer set up.  Go sit under the trees at the local ( Read more... )

I'm getting a new computer!! Well, new to me, anyway.  My laptop has been gradually dying over the past year or so.  Among other issues, it takes half an hour to get from start to being able to access the internet, the cdrom drive will play dvds, but not cds or cdroms, the nipplemouse causes the pointer to zoom across the screen like a demented bat ( Read more... )