Today 11/18/2007

Today I have accomplished as close to nothing as is possible for me. I had intended to paint the shower in the bathroom. Didn't do it. I had intended to go to the store and buy some needed groceries. Didn't do it. I had thought to mow/mulch the leaves in our yard. Didn't do it. I had intended to vacuum the living room rug, because it's nasty. Didn't do it. I had intended to do at least one load of laundry. Didn't do it. I had planned to practice playing my guitars. Didn't do it.

I had a rough night last night and little restful sleep. I had an all-day-sucker bitch of a headache today, which did not subside until around 7:00 or so And no, sadly, it wasn't a hangover. I almost wish it had been.

I did manage to shave and shower and change clothes, although I never did get dressed enough to go outside. I fed the cats and the fish. I messed around with Mozilla's Thunderbird on the laptop, trying to get it set up the way I wanted it (which was how my MS Outlook was set up). Almost got it, too. Ate lunch and watched the TV for awhile, caught up on a couple of shows I had recorded. Came up to my main PC and searched the Internet for the little rubber pads that go on the CPU to keep the cooling fan assembly from cracking the chip. Apparently, AMD is the only chip maker that uses these things. Never did find the damn pads. Spent nigh on to three hours looking for them.

Started this blog at 7:30 or so and quit for awhile when my family returned from a day out at GrammaHaus. It's now 10 before midnight and I'm almost done with it. I reckon I should go to bed, but I don't want to go just yet.

OK, now I'm done with it.

Thoughts?

Pax,

Nelson

Where's my computer?

My better half decided that more space was needed for her craft-works. OK.
My (our) computers have to be moved. OK.
I moved the main one today and fortunately, I like the new location. Unfortunately, the other one won't fit in the new location. So it looks as though I've got to find a new place for the secondary PC. And I'm going to have to install wireless cards to each PC, so they can talk to each other and the laptop.

It will be good thing.

Except that wireless networking is still pretty much midnight voodoo magic to me. I have set up the wireless router for the laptop and that works great! The laptop is happily surfing the internet in all its wireless glory. Now for the interesting part. My router requires a password that, to my knowledge, it has never been assigned. I haven't a clue what it might be nor how to find it. Hell, I don't even know what the user ID is having also never assigned one to the router. But the laptop surfs.

The wired network runs through this same router. The two PC's talk together very nicely. Well, they did before I moved one of them into a new location. For the life of me, I cannot get the two PC's to talk to or recognize the laptop and vice versa. Maddening. Maybe putting all into the wireless network will allow them to speak to each other. Wish me luck.

Any thoughts you may have are welcome at this point.

Pax,
N.

p.s. Meanwhile, the fight we had last night has blown over and all is forgiven (I think, hope and pray).