2010-01-04:

What could be more fitting to begin the new year with? So, like the title says, woke up to a bunch more snow this morning I neither wanted, nor needed. Thanks, weather! But I got all my shopping for today done. My cats seem to like the stuff they were given at christmas better, so I went over to kmart to get more. Of course they didn't have the liver and chicken, just the super super. But it was 3/$1.00 so I got some tuna instead. Maybe they'll like that. Not that they don't like their food now, of course, I just noticed it seemed to disappear faster. My first one was crap. Infected- and then it got worse. Somehow in cleaning it out something happened and it wouldn't log in anymore. It would try, then immediately log out again. Fun! I knew I was going to be late at this point and the guy didn't mind so I just reloaded the darn thing. So I'm a half hour behind by the time I get to my next one which takes me a bit longer then I expect, so I wind up being 45 minutes late to my next one, and they had to leave. This worked out however because this one was pretty much experiencing the same darn thing as the first one! BSOD if you try to boot in safe mode, messed up in normal mode. So I got to take it home and study the problem. Well, finally piecing windows back together and getting rid of the TONS of viruses on the thing, let's not do that again. But at least now I know what the issue probably was on the first one now. Got the replacement for the replacement hand drive for the laptop I've had sitting here, so I got that all loaded up. This time it worked fine, this drive was not defective. Had 5 calls, didn't reach two of them. So I have two scheduled, and one to get to (that quicken guy from before christmas) at some point. Both are just giving these systems back, the work is already done. It's now 10:50, spent way too much time on that crappy xp system. Reloading would have been way easier, but I wanted to understand how it was failing. I don't know why, dumb I guess. My BOX shipped today! At least that's what the email said. Perhaps soon I shall have my new BOX to play. And no bids on my stuff. My weather widget now has snow icons to Saturday. If you'll recall it had broken it up with a cloud here and there yesterday. Great!