Hmmm. So-so.

Looks like the morning meeting I might have been called in on, I won't be. Or they moved it; we'll see.

I'm ticked at IBM and at Fedex. I was told that Fedex would pick up the return boxes between 1-5 pm yesterday. They did not. Soonest IBM can send them out again? Monday. I don't get my money back until IBM gets this stuff back and processes it back in. I am NOT amused by this delay in the process.... (It's not that the amount of money is significant to my finances - it's not. It's that I'm tired of things related to this laptop getting screwed up. Very, very, VERY tired of it.)

On the other hand, I replied to a few emails this morning, arranged for someone else to cover two hours of after-hour duty on Saturday so I can go to my contact lens appointment in peace, and have already gotten a fair bit of code (and commenting, yay, being able to figure stuff out later!) done.

( ...this turned into a contacts rant.... )

The mist is pretty.

I'm getting stuff done, which is good. I'm getting code written. It's at times like this that I like my job the best.

And outside my window, the mist gathers thick enough to grey the trees behind the building opposite. This morning and even as recently as an hour ago it swirled close around my building, blurring the outline of the building across the street, feathering over the trees in our own parking lot, and drifting in patterns that looked like horizontal rain - rain that had simply grown bored of the idea of falling down, and was doing it sideways instead....

Beautiful. Just beautiful.

*sighs* Gah.

Okay, so I shouldn't be allowed to own or use computers, apparently. I had problems with Everquest's display. They sent me a form mail, that had links to the latest drivers for my card (which I had been able to find).

The drivers come with no technical support. I stared at that for a moment, unhappily, but then installed them - after carefully making sure they were the ones indicated for my card.

Bet you all already guessed it: my video is screwed. So badly I can only get it to come up okay in 16-color VGA, in fact, and at that it's only really reliable in safe mode when stuff doesn't preload.

Right now, I'm angry at everything involved, including myself. For the moment, I am not retrieving and reading email - I have LiveJournal because I'm using Scott's computer to view it. (I can view email in a web view, of course, but....)

I remembered to turn off my support notifications so I won't get hundreds of emails while not reading them. May be the only thing I've done right since starting this fiasco.

Okay, maybe not the only one. I think giving up on working on it till I've calmed down may also qualify. I'm sure I could find some way to make it worse, and it's not like there's data loss. In a worst-case scenario, I'll just end up hauling it to the local computer store. I actually have considerable faith in their ability to put back together properly what stupid users have broken. Even if the right drivers aren't available, a new video card would do the trick.

I really, really prefer to think that I or Scott will be able to put it right, though. When I'm calmer, and/or he's home.

Addendum: Scott's home. I asked him to look at it tomorrow, when I go for my eye appointment. (I'm a horrid fussbudget nerve bundle when someone's working on my computer. I don't like it, but I'm bad at avoiding it. I usually go upstairs and read a book to avoid being a pain, but an appointment is as good a time as any.) At last it's just video. Data loss scares me a lot more; this upsets and annoys me, but....