So a thought struck me today, (the non pointy end) and I realized something about myself. But let me start at the beginning-

 

After watching Psych, where a guy who notices everything solves crimes, I asked myself how I could perhaps become more observant. Brain gave his usual answer, "Heck, I don't know. Maybe a book about it, at the library?" In a flash (that is, several days later, i.e. Monday) I did a library search for "observation". There was maybe one or two, but all in other libraries. But I took a stroll over to the "restricted section" (the "self improvement" section) just to see what else I could come up with. That's how I came up with the shyness book.

 

So I also found over there a book on reading body language, which I thought might be interesting to kind of study. So I read through the chapter about eyes. I then resolved that, darn it, I was going to start looking people in the eyes. It's hard! At least for me. All you "normals" can do it without even thinking about it. Me, I still have to force myself. Wish I could tell you why. But there it is. Anyway-

 

In an attempt to force myself to become more observant, after I leave someone's house, or heck even if they step out of the room, I have, for the past two days asked myself, "what was that person wearing?" To my amazement, I had NO ACTUAL CLUE.  Oh, I got better at it, as I knew I was going to ask myself later so I started paying more attention, but still. I then realized that, while I saw people, had I never actually LOOKED at them? And that's why I couldn't answer the simple question of what they were wearing? That was a bit of self discovery there, let me tell you. Is that why I've always had trouble relating to people? Because I never really looked at them? This, coupled with the eye thing, is really making me think about how I deal with people. 

 

I am still an egg.

 

And still very busy! Five both today and yesterday, with another 3+grandma tomorrow. Today went pretty okay. Another machine bleeding memory from "windows update". Cleanout and battery change. Another checkup, only a half hour. One, a PII, yes, that's a pentium TWO, was BSOD and I said, hey, I have all these parts machines people have given me, I'll fix one up for you and you can HAVE IT. So I started that. My XP disk seems to be scratched or something, it doesn't want to read one file. Of course I have no backup? I'll have to look around. I can make another, but my disk is SP2, so I need to slipstream SP3 onto it again. STUPID MICROSOFT.

The most annoying one of the day was me thinking I was moving some machines around, but came to find out it was a BSOD. WHa? Description of job: FAIL!

 

It was my most favoritest error message in the whole wild worldist: "IRQL Not Less Then or Equal" which is sooooo very helpful. Basically it means "windows suuuuuuuuucks" It would boot in safe mode. I ran malwarebytes. I ran combofix. I ran the XP "repair" which did so very little to help me. No luck. I had to reload XP from scratch and move all his stuff over. weeeeeeee.

 

So that made me a half hour late, even though she was just down the street. It was pretty nice, everyone was pretty close today. Looks like a pretty good traveling day tomorrow too, that is, not so much of it.

 

Got a new system ready that had been dropped off around 8:00, didn't take me too long.

 

Hopefully Sean made it.

 

I asked day ago if Dad wanted to come see more Dr Who but never got any response, so I'm not sure if he's coming over tomorrow or not. Otherwise, shouldn't be too bad, they all seem pretty standard. And of course Grandma, who I hope is lucid again. 

 

Well, I'm off the clock here, gonna get me a tall cool glass of something and maybe play some more Blue Dragon. So there!