Creeping Along
It is after 11 and Sophie is upstairs crying. I took my 20-minute turn and Joe is taking his now, so I have a limited amount of time. I'm really sorry. I was planning a real blankie Friday post today, and was actually excited about it. But I am in the throes of Windows Vista upgrading. The good news is that the DVD player on the laptop is working properly again. The bad news is that this whole process is hurry up and wait, like watching paint dry. Download something, install something, download some more somethings, reboot five hundred times, uninstall a bunch of crap that Toshiba thought I really needed pre-loaded on my computer - crap like AOL and games that connect to the internet and turn out to be shareware that they expect you to buy, and other advertisement crap.
So far I have gotten Vista and its updates installed, Office 2003 is installed and Outlook is configured, but I'm downloading updates right now. I realized late last night that I had made a critical error in my backup scheme. I had forgotten to get an up to date backup of all my Outlook crap. I have a backup from January, and I am going to lose all my new data since then. Which isn't the end of the world since my contacts haven't changed all that much and my Calendar is not *all* that full. Really, it's just the e-mail archives, and it's probably good for me that I'm not going to get to save four months of communication minutia. As long as Outlook decides to let me import the backup that I do have when it's done getting its updates.
Then, I need to install Money and Photoshop and Firefox and Stitchpainter and some drivers and I will be somewhat close to back in business again. I really thought I'd have Photoshop installed by now and was planning a nice picture post, but I'm not going to download the pictures off my camera till I can do my little dance with Photoshop the way I'm used to.
I promise you that there will be a blankie update as soon as I can make it happen without driving myself further into insanity. In the mean time, I need to go comfort a teething baby and get some sleep - I'm going to the craft fair tomorrow.
So far I have gotten Vista and its updates installed, Office 2003 is installed and Outlook is configured, but I'm downloading updates right now. I realized late last night that I had made a critical error in my backup scheme. I had forgotten to get an up to date backup of all my Outlook crap. I have a backup from January, and I am going to lose all my new data since then. Which isn't the end of the world since my contacts haven't changed all that much and my Calendar is not *all* that full. Really, it's just the e-mail archives, and it's probably good for me that I'm not going to get to save four months of communication minutia. As long as Outlook decides to let me import the backup that I do have when it's done getting its updates.
Then, I need to install Money and Photoshop and Firefox and Stitchpainter and some drivers and I will be somewhat close to back in business again. I really thought I'd have Photoshop installed by now and was planning a nice picture post, but I'm not going to download the pictures off my camera till I can do my little dance with Photoshop the way I'm used to.
I promise you that there will be a blankie update as soon as I can make it happen without driving myself further into insanity. In the mean time, I need to go comfort a teething baby and get some sleep - I'm going to the craft fair tomorrow.
posted by Shelly Kang at 11:10 PM
1 Comments:
You have absolutely GOT to be kidding that you still have to do that "sit in room with child " at bedtime?? That is horrible! My heart goes out to you...but you are uber-patient parents to hang in there like that. She must has a will of steel. Sarah B.
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