I only swear when necessary.

December 27, 2003

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How much of a pottymouth are you?

Well, good thing no one heard me cussing last night. Santa would have come back and took away my presents. Read on?

Good heavens. I?ve been updating and customizing this computer for 2 days now, and my head is about ready to split. I don?t ever want to reboot this machine again.

It all started because Agent J got a new computer for Christmas. Of course, it has Windows XP on it, like all the new models do.

He wanted to network his comp with mine so that we would both have cable access. Coolio, says I.

For some freakass reason, we couldn?t run the cable router through my computer because mine has Windows 98 SE on it. I spent an hour on the phone with a heavily-accented service technician from India figuring this out. Trying to get technical assistance and learn a foreign language at the same time is not my cup of tea. (Just thinking of that conversation causes my cerebral cortex to twitch.)

Anyway, the Solution to all of our problems: Upgrade my operating system to Windows XP, and the networking should go smoothly.

I schlep to the office supply store, buy a copy of XP and installed it last night. (I?ll spare you the gory details of shopping the day after Christmas in our town. The exclamation ?oye!? shall suffice.) And the installation? It took seven attempts and a handful of Tylenol before that was accomplished. Software conflicts, blah blah blah.

So today Agent completes the cable networking and gets both of our comps online. He is ecstatic; he?s never had his own computer at home before so he?s all giggly like a little schoolboy and having a blast. I, however, was stuck with a bunch of programs loaded on my machine that no longer worked because they are incompatible with XP. Arrrrgggh!

I?ve spent the majority of this evening going to various websites and downloading updates and new drivers then installing them. So far, most everything is working ok. The only thing that seems to be totally obsolete is my scanner. It won?t work with anything past Windows 98, so I?m going to have to get a new one.

Check that ? Agent J is going to have to get me a new one. Hehe. :)~

Many good things have come out of this experience, though. Now we both have a comp and he won?t be junking mine up with his engineering stuff; the XP operating system seems much more stable than the other one; and I learned just how proficient I?ve become with computers. Sure, I swear the whole time I?m working on them, but I actually amazed myself at times ? and J was looking at me like I was a friggen genius whenever I knew the solution to a problem.

That was nice. :) I rarely get the chance to feel more mechanically inclined than my hubby, Mr. Engineer.

That?s what?s been going on since my last post. I was fortunate enough to find some updated software online so I could download some Christmas pics from my digital camera tonight. Here are some new photos of the cattens. (Yes, part kitten, part cat. Catten.) They?re so cute!

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Miss Maizey

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Randle P. McMurphy

That’s all for now. And remember kids…

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3 Responses to “I only swear when necessary.”

  1. Zubrovka on December 28th, 2003 1:00 am

    Mazey looks like someone has ahold of her tail, is that why you clipped it out of the pix? :) Z

  2. Leah on December 29th, 2003 9:14 am

    Wow! What an ordeal. Sounds like it will be well worth it, though.

    Enjoy!

    Leah

  3. Alina on December 31st, 2003 6:56 pm

    Wanted to wish you Happy New Year. Hope it’s a good one :)

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