2010-02-04:

Yeah, so, yesterday. Glad now that I did do all that work last night, I didn't get much today today, even though I had "less" to do. Ha! How come days I think I'm going to be super busy and not get home, I do, but days I figure I'll have a couple of hours between the morning and the afternoon stuff, I don't? Puppy! So, I have to tell you about this dog I saw yesterday. Imagine, if you will, a cross between a grayhound and a tiger. No, really! This dog had tiger stripes, yes, stripes. He was quite tall, maybe close to three feet (on all fours), sleek and thin like a grayhound, but orange-y and striped. Friendly too. Very nice dog. So today was... bizarre. The first went fine. In and out in 45 minutes, no sweat. Stopped down the road a piece to a person I had seen called before I left. Wasn't doing whatever it was doing before, fine. Stopped at mom's to set up my her laptop to do some LP recording, but realized her machine was from the "let's not put analog audio in on our machines" era so there was no way to do so. Came back home and got adapter for later. Lunch. The next one was rough. I cleaned a bunch of stuff off it, but she was having some weird issue with her video driver not loading with "error 39". That's my favorite one for CD drives, because it means your CD drive is dead and you have to go into the registry and delete "upper filters" and "lower filters" because Oz demands it. While bellowing to ignore that man behind the curtain. But I'm already forty minutes late to when I told Marget I would stop by, so I explain I would need more time to research that error as it relates to the video driver, maybe the full avast boot scan will help, whatever. At least it was usable. Sorta. Anyway, get over to Marget's her Mac is doing all kinda crazy wild things. Not scanning. Not shutting down. Won't see the camera. Lost pictures? Slow. Time missing from menubar. I'm like, YEAWZA! I do the only thing I can do, boot and try to run DiskWarrior from CD. Well, as it's running I get "process has been slowed due to disk error." Well, that's not good. So I give that up because once you see that error, it's over, and sure enough, I try to boot her machine and it just shuts itself off. Super. So there's some bizarre hardware problem with it. She's called Apple to see if it's still under warranty or not, but either way it'll have to go back to them. She said she can't get over there for a few days so I'll head back tomorrow (she's right down the street from Grandma) and let her borrow my laptop. Scary. *pats iMac* Love you! So I have just enough time to zip in and hook the record player up to the iBook so I don't have to tediously listen to LPs, I'll work on them in a digital form, thank you very much, before I have to leave for my 5:30. I'm actually a few minutes late, but no big deal. Her boss bought her a laptop exactly half as fast as her current one. Big spender. Her other one has a 1.6 Dual and the "new" one has a 1.6 Single. Great! Thanks for nothing, ya cheap bastard. Seemed to run Win7 okay though, which, quite frankly, surprised me. Of course, it had 3GB of RAM but still. Hats off, MS, you managed to suck a tiny bit less then I expected. Nice job. Anyway, hardened, transferred files over, etc. And her daughter? Still hot. Home! Eat dinner! Make phone calls, didn't have too many, but did book all of tomorrow. Finished up the last little bits of the HDL Touch for tomorrow, the graphic-y bits and a couple of labels. Now for the testing. Then... the error checking! I'm still really happy with it, hope Sean likes it too. And it seems to be getting late again. Happens every night about this time, I've noticed. Some kind of pattern there, have to research it some more. Bedtime!