Life in the Slow Lane

I'm loving this life! I'm a hermit, hardly going anywhere at all. I'm watching lots of TV, wearing my "around the house scuzzy" clothes, and doing lots of low priortiy tasks in a relaxed, laid back fashion. I'm in "hermit heaven"! I feel like I could go on like this forever!

I moved all my photo and jpeg files from the old computer to the new. They are so much easier to view, edit, and play around with on the new computer! It's amazing what a difference a faster processor makes.

I hooked my CD-RW drive back up to the old computer. I'm going to spend a few days backing up my important files. That task is way overdue.

I've had more dealings with Verizon and DLink(manufacturers of my wireless network hardware) tech support. DSL went down again, and after we got it running again, the router wouldn't interact with the old computer. After several hours of tech support, we finally figured out that my ethernet cable has gone bad. So now we're back to one computer with internet until I reject hermit status and go to the store for an ethernet cable. The tech was surprised I didn't have an extra just laying around. Hmm. Maybe I should.

Now I'm on the hunt for a Windows 98 SE startup or system disk. My computer didn't come with one, and I think reinstalling may be the only way to fix my problem, which is that the OS has a fatal exception error when I try to open Windows Explorer. Checked with Microsoft, and they charge even for email support, so I'm not going to email them to ask if they can send me a disk.

I cleaned my massive closet. I've loved my new closet so much, that after I moved in I was regularly spiffing it up to keep it looking as cool as it did when we first put up the closet system. But the last couple months of craziness killed that plan, and my closet had so much crap in it I could hardly get to my clothes. It didn't take nearly as long to get it back in shape again as I thought it would. Now that I can see my stuff again, I am feeling the urge to use it...scrapbook stuff, sewing stuff, beading stuff, workout gear...

I installed Sims Making Magic on the new computer for the kids. I bought it with Sims Deluxe about 6 months ago, then(wisely) decided it wasn't going to fit on the old computer. So I'm just now getting it onto the new one. It's pretty cool. It does so many cool new things. I'm going to have a hard time getting on the new computer for a while.

That's OK. Maybe I'll just go read a book.