Fluff and Stuff

The fluff:

Andrea gave me pretties while she was here! *grin* I have a couple of toe rings and some neat glass-bead anklets that she actually made for me with her own hands. My raccoon is such a sweetie. I've wanted to try wearing toe rings since I started spending most of my time barefoot, and now I have a chance. And I really like them. It took me a while to figure out how to put them on and adjust them and get used to them, but they're very cool. The anklets are neat too. I think I just like things that draw attention to my feet and make people realize that, yes, that strange person over there really isn't wearing shoes. *giggle* If I keep getting more shinys, I may have to find a jewlery box.

The stuff:

Work is really busy and we are rather far behind on the miniatures production schedule. Some of this is due to the company next door going out of business and requiring us to take all the neat free shelving before it all gets hauled away to the scrapheap. I may be there late into the night Friday night making miniatures. Ugh. I was there 'till 7 tonight, when I left because I'd been feeling kind of lousy all day and had actually considered not going in to work. We are too far behind though... *shrug*

Anyway, so that's how I'm spending my Friday night. I'm still itching to get more time working on those Pentium II's I've got. I rifled the desks they came from and found a real HP CD with Win95 (and supposedly WinNT Workstaion though I can't find it), and got 95 running. I was going to upgrade to 98 from there since the clean install keeps failing (if it doens't work one way, try another), but my 98 disk is a full version and the 'puter is demanding an upgrade version. *sigh* I'll have to see if I can download an image of a 98 upgrade disc... Seems that will have to wait for another time though.

I also found a couple of nifty vintage (early 80's) electronic test instruments at Glenmarc (the place next door). I may e-bay them and see what they'll fetch. Speaking of E-bay, I finally posted my first auction tonight. It's a copy of the Call of Cthulhu 5th ed. mainbook that I got at a Goodwill for 2 bucks, along with a copy of Werewolf for the same price. The CoC book seems to average about $10 on e-bay, so we'll see how it goes. It would be nice if could make a little extra money indulging in my thrift store habit.

And my beloved is going to be at a memorial service for her father this weekend. She's not interested in making a big deal out of it, so please don't, but I just wanted to note it here because she's in my thoughts. *hugs* I love you, my Andrea.

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I rock! The first of the HP Vectra PII 333's is up and running with Windows 2000. I never did get '98 to work on the thing, but that's ok, 2000 will do the job. I'm very pleased to be able to finally be able to give my mother a decent computer that she can have all to herself, and I'm also very pleased to have figured the thing out. Making computers behave is very satisfying.

That's what I've been doing since getting home at about 9:30. The Dwarf and I stopped at Super China Buffet on the way home as a gorgeous storm rolled by overhead. As I was driving home from the restaurant, I marvelled at the two-tone sky. The heavens ahead of me roiled dark and ominous, occasional jags of lightning rending the clouds, while behind me, the sky farthest from the advancing front glowed an almost pearlescent shade of turquoise that nearly took my breath away. *sighhhh* I love storms... And the rain! I was in such good spirits driving home, with a weekend awaiting me and the wonder of nature's power tempestuously surrounding me.... I was a happy, and slightly wet, dog as I rolled the window down to let the rain touch me.

Seems I'm not going to be able to make the picnic that butterscotchvix is hosting Saturday at Starved Rock. It would have been fun to meet all the new people, but it seems I'm giving foreignlegiona ride out to Madison to help he and saagaadaa clean out a friend's storage locker. No one knows what all is in it. Don't you love surprises? *grin* Sorry I can't make it though, Butterscotch. It would have been fun. I was even thinking about bringing some of my juggling stuff...

Anway, I'll probably be up for a good long time tonight, working on systems and doing all the other things I never seem to have time for on the weekdays. Free time is a very good thing.