*MUTTERS*

Bad computer Monday.

Old laptop (which still has my email): goes on standby, spontaneously, in the middle of actual use (mouse moving, keyboard typing, changes occuring on-screen in response to this). Stops responding. Note: has the Dell memory bug. So of course it stops responding. That's why I disabled standby mode, under any circumstances, ages ago.

After 4-5 reboots, I got it back to a usable state. Blah.

Desktop: Upgraded motherboard over weekend. Now has Windows 2000 on it; 95 did not like the new motherboard, not at all. Lucky me. Windows 2000 sucks rather more disk space down...all my installed programs, aren't (though the data files were preserved via backup). And there's not room to reinstall all of 'em, either, without absorbing the D drive back into C and removing most of its contents, or other tomfoolery. Fortunately, my desktop once was my primary document storer, and now my laptop will be.

But blah.

Good morning, it's a Monday. My new laptop, at least, is working nicely.

Yay.

Okay, I now have Office and the Dev Studio on the same system, my old laptop is back to not crashing for the moment, and my desktop is getting cleaned up.

This is better.

*sigh*

E. dropped into my office to talk to me about a document. He didn't seem to know what he wanted to talk about, since he didn't have a topic after we established that I hadn't read the document. It was four pages long; he waved it at me a few times but only let me see it when I asked, pointing out that I couldn't say anything without at least a skim of it.

It doesn't completely "fit" our system, I gave it a quick skim, and still wasn't sure what he wanted.

I'm still not. I find him one of my most frustrating coworkers, as far as trying to understand him, because I usually have trouble getting whatever the point is.

If it is. Maybe that's the problem.

I think my desktop should get an award....

...most-rebooted computer of the day, or something. It was installed from a Windows 2000 professional CD, SP1. I eyed that, ran the updater, because I know there's newer stuff. First it applied critical updates. Reboot. Then there's SP2 available, so run that. Reboot. Look! NEW critical updates. Apply. Reboot.

Now, upgrade IE 5.01 or somesuch to IE 6. Reboot. Look! NEW new critical updates. Apply. Reboot.

I haven't even finished with the updates, let alone started reinstalling the software.....

Grrrr.

I just got a "please pay this much by this date" bill (not overdue, yay) from the storage company.

What's wrong with this? Oh, the fact they're supposed to auto-charge my credit card? So now I have to call them and ask what the heck's up with this...at least there's plenty of notice.