2009-10-14:

ABC Sale, that is. So there I was, getting the call yesterday about the computer in the lawyer's office hanging up when it booted. So I go in, 9:30, and she's sitting there working at it. Huh. She tells me that just as she was leaving yesterday, it finally came on. Strange, no? So she finished up her current task and we shut it down to see what'll happen. Right as it goes to log in, for a split second, I see the place to type the username, and an error message. This is then covered up by the blue, Welcome screen. So I use alt-tab and bring the error message forward, and there's the problem. The machine has decided it wants to log Jennifer in, but there is no Jennifer user, only Mary. So I fix that little glitch. Good thing I was looking at the screen for the half second it showed the error message. Thanks for having error messages that can be covered up, microsoft. Makes me think all the more highly of you. But I did get his laptop to take home and look at, which I then did for awhile. After responding to my BFF of course. One must have priorities. Then it was off to the ABC sale. Got through another 50 or so pages of Emma while in line. Still have yet to fully grok her style, meaning it's a bit slower going then I usually read. Which is okay, in one sense, but sometimes there's sentences in there I read and go "what the heck?" The sale was actually a little disappointing this year. Oh, I got some neat stuff, like a brand new, never opened bottle of Sailor Moon Bubble bath! Hey, you know how rare that is? It's a major award! Wait, what? But usually I walk out of there with bags of stuff, this year, one bag and a box. The box had an old GPS unit in it. With car mount. I hope to set it up with the car mount and just use it for the compass feature. (Darn my "no sense of direction") What else did I get? A couple of HD-DVD movies for Sean (which hopefully he doesn't have), a couple of headsets because the wires seem to fray on them awfully easy. A never opened wacom tablet from the Win98 era, which I'm sure still has drivers made so that'll be nice (to sell). Couple of AV cables I can sell to customers, an opened box of address labels I can use for my invoice forms (Just needed some too, I was running low, so that saved me a bundle). And I think that's it. Total price: $54. And all for a good cause. Said goodbye to mom and Heather and booked it over to my 3:30. Which had some funky wireless thing going on. When the newest laptop was turned on, it knocked everybody off the wireless for a couple of minutes. First time I had run into a situation like that. First I tried to move the router upstairs, but none of their phone jacks seemed to work. (They only used their cell phones) So I moved it back and plugged one in directly, see what was going on. He had switched it to B mode only, rather then mixed B/G which wasn't helping. There was a firmware update. After that it seemed okay. Whew. Her norton expired, so I took care of that. One laptop's HD was on its last legs, had to plug it into my laptop (PowerBook) as the other two windows machines wouldn't see it. Got the data he cared about off it though, so that was a relief to him. Came home, 5:30, ate dinner. Worked on penciling the next comic until 7:00, I had 6 phone calls today, but only booked three for tomorrow. One for friday and saturday each though, so that'll keep me a bit busy. Friday is the fantasy game at RIT with Sean, Sean, Stan and Mizzy. 6:30 start time though, meaning I'll be hanging around there an hour or so until the others arrive. (I leave there from grandma's at around 4:30. Dinner at subway and then waiting.) Oh well, they're worth waiting for. I guess. :) Hummm... what shall I do tonight, I wonder? Color the comic so I don't have to worry about it tomorrow? Perhaps. Perhaps something... spontaneous? Current Countdown Number: 4