So, couple of days to catch up on. There was friday, a tuneup, and then 2 machines, and grandma. Got that weeks quota of "they're so mean to me" and "the food isn't great" so that was fun. Made oatmeal cookies for the game. Two jobs saturday, a cleanout then over to see about the router, a five minute task. Then over to game with the gang, got our new invulnerable fox guy introduced, found out where the water went, so it went pretty well.

 

Sunday as I recall, more writing.

 

Monady, shopping as normal. Answered some questions first off, and resetting a router again in the afternoon. Tuesday nothing big in the morning, but over to the Radison in the afternoon for their weird problems then over to the mortgage company for a couple of things. 

 

Wednesday was the real menace day.  Five places to go, then over to my parent's house for Dad's birthday, which I just made at 6:00. First was the boss sauce place, norton was using 100% of his CPU out of nowhere, his backup seemed really odd, so hopefully I sorted that all out. The next machine I cleaned out a bit, but I didn't see what she was talking about. Then over to see My Buddy to get his ink cartridge replaced, because I'm a moron. Then wayyyyy the heck out 531W to a machine a man put SP3 on years ago, and it messed him up and he took it off. So now he decides he's going to try it again, and guess what? It messes him up! Gee, didn't see that coming. So I did a repair hoping against hope it would work out, and lo and behold it sort of works. It boots, and complains about "activation" like people 11 years later care about pirating XP and just sort of hangs up, the HD grinds away, grind grind grind grind but is there any actual progress? Nope! So I get to take that one home, did I mention it's like a half hour away? More, possibly? Then the last one, he complained about BSOD and slowness and everything, I checked it all over, didn't find anything, it was pressed up against the desk so the vents weren't, you know, venting? So I did some stuff and that was that. Dad got his shiny new iPod I hope he can figure out, and when I got home another 3 computers had magically appeared on my doorstep for me to work on! Yay!

 

So today I straightened a guy out I had reloaded a machine for previously, and found out infrarecorder either has a bug or doesn't like the guy's burner, as iTunes will burn a CD just fine, but try to copy one and it'll get 80% done and just kinda stop, but say it worked successfully. Right.  When I got home from that, another laptop had fallen out of the broken laptop delivery truck in the sky, so I tried making all these machines I had work. Finally finished the last thing just a little while ago. I hate all PCs and Windows. In SO. MANY. WAYS. In every way, really. There is not one way I do not have the hate on for everything PC. It's all right there, anyone can see it. The activation one I finally hacked around and it seemed to work, it comes "right" up now, and doesn't complain about not being activated, so I hope that holds. Stupid XP. Otherwise it was a smorgasbord of windows reloads, sleuthing, and punching out bad guys like 007. Yeah, that's the life of a computer repair guy. Oh, and there was one in the afternoon, the AVG expired so I gave them MSE, which is free, and just totally blew their minds by saying "How's $10" when they asked what they owed. I was only there, as I informed them, for ten minutes, and a dollar a minute is a pretty good wage. And they weren't far away, it wasn't a big deal. Not that I don't like money, I do, and need it always that my government may take it away from me as is their responsibility and duty, but an hour's wage for 1/6 that much work. Just makes me feel weird.

 

Needless to say, I have not written nearly as much as I wanted this week, makes Robert cranky. 72,000 words. Getting there, Dean almost has all the piece of the map! He's just had the narrator (that'd be me) play the "disaster strikes" card so he tells the demon with the next piece the wrong thing and loses out on the chance to take the treasure for himself. HAHA. You needed that 3xp more then limitless wealth anyway, Dean. And your friends don't hate you now, totally! Honest! They won't stand and let your fake parents stab you in the back and kill you, at least I think they- I mean… *whistling*

 

Squeaker is in and out of his litter box every couple of minutes this afternoon, have to watch him, if that continues it's vet time!

 

No info on game this week, sadface. There's cake to be had, people!

 

Tomorrow, take back the Long Drive system, bring back the mortgage place guy's system (and get another system from an employee) and go hear the same crap from Grandma I heard last week. Nothing for Saturday, maybe writing? Smileface. Changing oil? Neutralface.

 

Weather good. Of course the really nice day I was away the whole time so I couldn't change my oil, (we're talking 50s here people) so now it'll be in the 30s again, where it should be when one changes oil. 

 

Then we loop it around again. It's a whole new month people, I hope you're strapped in.

 

Oh yeah, did I tell you about the customer who was telling me about this plumber, "Frank" that just left, and how he's a great guy, etc etc and I'm like, "Yeah, you don't need to tell me, the guy's my father?" And it was all *shock* and *amazement* like we didn't share a very obscure last name? That, I don't know, gives it kind of away that we're related? 

 

I know why the world is in such bad shape. Lady, you're the reason. You and all the people like you, that can't see a Robert Z and a Frank Z and wonder for one tiny second, "hey, I wonder if they're related?"