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I think that all of my CD-R media is crap. Maybe if I burn two copies of the Windows XP SP2 OEM disc, I can switch between the two during install and bypass all the bad sectors.

I also think that my computer room is in dire need of a purging. I'll hve to get on that when I have a few hours.

I also think that I'd better pay some bills tonight before, well, bad things happen. This should probably take top priority.

I also think that I should probably get to sleep before 10:30 or so so I can be awake for work tomorrow. That should probably take even higher priority. serinthia will probably able to tell you, based on how zombified I am in the morning, whether it did....

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Our server team just told us that some problems with unreachable domains that we're having are due to "severe network issues" at Network Solutions. I didn't think those guys were ever down; they basically are the internet!

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What is the storm-doggy doing tonight?

Using the bootable copy of XP SP2 OEM that I got from my team lead at work (who, for what it's worth, was also unable to produce a usable copy from an ISO; he made a direct copy from an original), build butterscotchvix's laptop for her. She may be coming by on Friday to pick it up, at which point I can finally pass on the large HP faxer/copier/scanner/printer/cheese grater that I brought home from work four or five months ago because they were throwing it out and I knew that someone would want it. Butterscotch, should have no trouble getting your 'puter ready for this Friday if you're able to make it. Not that you can probably read this without a computer....

Beginning to build a computer for my mother so she has one to take with her to the Permaculture/sustainable living seminar she's going to be attending. (Note to self; bring her your sleeping bag tomorrow after work.)

Sending money to the water utility, the Cable company, the power/gas company, my student loan holder, Sears, Progressive Insurance, etc. At this point, I'm half tempted to just let our taxes due from last year roll over to next year. I know, I probably shouldn't do that. Bad dog.

Trying to figure out why the thrice-cursed HP credential manager will not, no matter what I do or how I threaten its life, let me log on to a domain account on my private domain by scanning my fingerprint on my personal installation of Windows on my work machine.

Trying to get my Ipaq to synch with my work installation of Windows on my work machine.

Trying to set up Dragon Naturally Speaking: Medical to work on both installations with my Phillips SpeechMic (I think the SpeechMic may be dead which kind of sucks).

You know, I still have nearly two weeks of vacation time this year. I think it's time for another vacation. I need to get caught up on stuff. I'm thinking about the week of Thanksgiving as a possibility. Or maybe even then week between Windycon and MFF. I need to clean this computer room!!!!

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New and improved entry: now with more geek-oriented time wasting!

Through trial and error, figured out the passwords for all three of my IM accounts. If you saw me pop online and back off, that's why; it's too late for me to stay on and do much. On that subject, now that I have the passwords, does anyone know how to use Trillian to change them?

After logging on for the first time myself last night, I've convince my brother to jump on and take a look, and may even have convinced my mate to try her first ever bit of electronic gaming with me by creating her own character and going out to a dance or something at a furry gathering place. We sat down over dinner together and played at stretching my characters face and hair around and putting different clothes on me. I was literally bouncing and squeaking as I realized that I could wear things like eyeliner or a skirt. I'm planning to wander around with akreaveter on there at some point.

Just now finished up Butterscotch's laptop and loaded on some of my favorite utilities like Irfanview, Firefox, WinRAR, and one of the last 2.x Winamp builds before it turned into bloated garbageware in 3.x and onward. (Incidentally, though I've long had a copy of that and many, many other utils that I can't live without sitting on my file server for installs, there's a great resource out there for those of you who aren't incorrigible data packrats like I am. Oldversion.com is a treasure house for those looking for great old software that fell to the onslaught of flashy, frustrating, failure-prone progress.)

Hey, does anyone have any experience with free anti-virus clients? I don't have one to install for Butterscotch and I'd like to put something on there in case she doesn't have one of her own to load.

I'm going to start the Windows update on my mom's machine (Butter's had nearly seventy updates to install on the first pass so I know it's going to take a while), start Spinrite to run overnight on the vixen's computer just to make sure her hard drive is completely good, and then go to bed. 'Till the 'morrow!