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Warned you.

 

 I don't mean to make light of those in areas harder hit then myself, of course. It's just me being an insensitive jerk, as always.

 

So, we had a little wind on sunday. I finished "wizard" playthrough of Oblivion, the 103% reflect damage and 100% absorb magic might have helped. Can't be too sure.

 

Read. Cleaned. Looked out the window at the wind. That sort of thing. Made a blacksmith, just in case we want to test fabrication at some point.

 

Saturday I did the one job, oh look, another crappy old dell with hardly any RAM. What a shock. And norton? Oh, goody. After removing that the RAM usage for the machine went down from about 700mb to about 250mb. Ah, we found the problem. Came home a bit later then expected and sat down to eat lunch, read email. Oh, sean wants to start at 2:00 ish? And what time is it now? 1:15? Oh, uh. Anyway, got over there, with cake, and did a dungeon crawl. Well, the first 200 yards of it, anyway. They don't call it a crawl for nothing! Oh, I kid, I kid the dungeon crawl so much! Other Sean cast some spells we hadn't used before, and what do you know? Proper Sean immediately said "that's not right" and started changing things. We decided perhaps we better look into casting every spell to make sure they're all on the up and up. But they behaved themselves, and progress was made, which was good.

 

Friday of course I took my car in at 9:00, got it back at 4:15. So I was pretty late to see Grandma, but as Fridays are planned around seeing Grandma, I went over there. Good thing I did, I wouldn't have seen her Saturday otherwise. A true tragedy.

 

Got my checks from the eScrap people. Remember my first 50 pound box of random crap I sent them? Remember the 140 pounds of crap I subsequently sent them? Well, there must have been something made of pure gold in that first box, because here's how the checks went, in order of first box (previous) to today.

 

$110

$5.35

$40.30

$16.20

 

Setting the world on FIRE there. What the heck? How did my one box net me so much, when three times as much didn't get me a fraction of the amount? Weird. At least it's gone, solid gone, now.

 

Let's see, 140 lbs / 20 lbs that belonged to dad, that's 14% of the total take, which was 61.85. That's all of $8.66. Don't spend it all in one place now. Like on two gallons of gas.  

 

Today, normal shopping. One job over at the mortgage place, a nice piece of virus to fight with, and just setting up a new laptop to use the printer and scanner. Of course the scanner works by depositing the scanned file in a shared folder over the network. So I share a folder over the network. Does Win7 let me access this folder? No? Does it give me any reason why? No? Even after dropping all protections to minimum, giving everyone read/write access? No? How shocking. But putting the folder in the "public" area worked a treat. Great. You surprise me again, windows. Well done.

 

Then came home. Talked with some people on the phone, well, one person. Tried to reach another, no answer. Read. 

 

Two for tomorrow, so that's good. Of course one is at 6:30, which is not good. Oh well, I'm sure I'll have a half dozen people call because I'll be home late and have less time to get back to them.