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Vacation update: had a great time at Kate's place, got her addicted to BSG (we watched all of season 1 in two days!) and wrote a lot for the Himitsu kink meme. Good times.

I'm in Halifax now, hanging with Katie and Emmy (well, so far most Katie because Emmy had a 12 hour work day yesterday and was off again this morning but I'll see her more in a couple of hours). The weather today is just BEAUTIFUL, Katie and I walked around the city for a bit. I love Halifax, enough that I think I'm going to be keeping a better eye out for job opportunities here even. Though Toronto is still going to have more because it's Toronto. And I do quite like it there too.

Katie showed me the first two episodes of White Collar last night and it is just made of so much win! I may also be checking out Leverage while I am here. Plus I now have access to The Pandorica Opens and so get to debate whether or not I want to watch it, despite knowing that there is a CLIFFHANGER OF DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM (TM).


Computer Update: Mom's tech guy from work looked at my computer and could not access the hard drive. So he went ahead with the clean install so I just lost half my music files, a fair amount of downloads, and some other stuff. I thought my picture files were there too but I just checked the netbook and I still have them. And for the music I at least have the stuff I listen to most on my iPod.

Oh, and Sims 2 files are gone but I haven't really played that for awhile so I'll probably live.

I still am definitely planning to start saving for a new computer. It probably will not happen until like, Christmas though, unless I get a new job. Which would be nice.



And that's about it!

Okay, computer people. As mentioned in my last two posts, my desktop is giving me weird errors. I've tried all the solutions I could find at PC Support EXCEPT for a clean install. That is the option I am facing now.

I am sure there are some weird things going on because when I go into the Repair Console it gives me two options of installations to repair ... neither of which are "Windows" (one is Mini-something and the other is I think the i-some numbers thing).

I don't want to clean install because I have put all my files BACK on my desktop from the netbook. But there is nothing on my computer that I can't replace (my writing is all on the netbook, which would be the main concern).

So, if anyone has any other ideas, let me know. If not, I'll do a clean install at some point and hopefully that will fix things (and if not then I clearly know the computer is toast and will figure out where I go from there).

The good news: the store is FINALLY ready to open, I have tomorrow off, and Margaret is coming to visit.

The bad news: next week's schedule still isn't up and my desktop has crashed or something, I don't know. Doing another Windows Repair installation to try and fix it, will report back. Thank dragons for the netbook.

Also, Elphie is cute.

Okay, so I have a wireless mouse. It love it, it's awesome.

Except it's not working very well anymore. At all. It can take 5-10 seconds to actually make it go over the thing I want to click and, given the fact that I'm trying to WORK and need to click a lot of things, is REALLY frustrating.

So time to go buy another one, I guess. I'll see if Zeller's has anything that looks gook, plus I still have those $15 worth of Best Buy coupons so I could go over there. Gah, and this day was going to sell as far as time management goes too -_-

Had a WONDERFUL meal at The Keg. Very glad to not be a Biggest Loser contestant though, because Jillian would not be impressed (though I don't think I was as bad as the ACTUAL contestants!)

Back at Bruce's for the night. Will get to watch BSG when it airs yet again, so terrified since this is the first part of the finale and their last chance for a cliffhanger.

We've had uh, FUN trying to get my second monitor. First I realized I didn't know if I had another port in my video card. Help from Elzie and Frozen made me realize I do have one, hurrah! But then the model that Future Shop had for $149 isn't carried by Best Buy, though they have one that is the same size and same make as the one we were looking for. So I still don't have it, but Dad is going to pick it up from the Future Shop in Cambridge. So I will get one and hopefully setting it up will be a lot easier than actually getting the damn thing.

And I will love it forever and EVER.

Wow...Boomer is the happy icon character? CRAZY (I think it's Boomer...Athena would be even odder because I don't know that we've really SEEN her really happy).

Back at the library again. I didn't make it in yesterday, as you may have noticed. And gah, this computer's keyboard SUCKS. You have to pound some of the keys to make them work -_-

I'm going to call Geek Squad today and see if they have info about the computer. I'm really hoping it will be back sometime this weekend. I also keep freaking out about all the files I might have lost @_@

I finished reading Gods Behaving Badly and I have to say, I'm disappointed. It sounded like it would have been better than it was. The two mortal characters were very fun, but I felt like the gods ended up being very one-dimensional. Oh well. It was still an okay read. And I got it done well within the 7 days I had it for (the TO library has these books called "Best Bets" which people can't put holds on and which have to be back within a week and aren't renewable). Not sure which of the other two I'm going to start first, though I also was starting to read the last novella in this 3 story collection from Luna (Harlequin's fantasy line) so I may finish that first.

I've been playing a LOT of Fire Emblem, to the point where I'm a bit sick of it. But there's not much else to do. The worst thing is that I can't seem to get myself to write, because I wanted to work on Psyche & Eros next but I may have lost that entire file and I'm not sure if I want to go and re-write it all because I have definitely lost steam with writing it.

Okay, this keyboard is driving me NUTS. End of entry.

Thank God my computer is back. And thank God it wasn't here last night...the other computer's modem at least is fried after the lightning strike. As is the furnace, the oven, the satellite box, both TVs, and some of the phones. My phone is still good...because it wasn't plugged in, since it runs through the computer (yay dial-up).

Anyway, I have Internet access again, though my Dad will now be trying to kick me off MY OWN COMPUTER to get time of his own ;_;

Lightning sucks.

At least we weren't the PERSON who got hit last night...he's in intensive care.

Oh, the new CD-RW drive works beautifully.




Vicki