It's Friday. So what. Big deal.
Aug. 31st, 2007 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anne_dThe PC is still running.
We're still finding odd little quirks here and there - last night, the LAN icon suddenly acquired an exclamation point, which, when moused over, informed me that the local connection was "limited or unavailable".
Odd, we said, the internet still seems to be there. I assured Emily that it was, if anything, an issue with AT&T and certainly not our computer, but of course we both worried.
So this morning when it was still there, I went to Yahoo help and did a mite of research. Turns out that if you run Windows XP with SP2, which we are, and some other odd bit of Windows software, it produces a false warning. As it said on the Yahoo page, "If you can surf the internet, you don't have a connection problem". There were also instructions for turning the warning off, which I did. If the LAN connection really does go poof, I'm sure I'll notice.
Kitty said she couldn't get MS Works to work, but I tried it and it was fine; I was able to produce and save a document. Maybe she just clicked in the wrong place. I changed the cursor from a black thing that goes transparent to a 3-D white cursor so I can actually see it, and I reset the timing on the screen saver so it comes on before the power-saving thing turns the monitor off.
Our saved images open directly in PaintShopPro instead of the Windows image viewer, but I can live with that. There's probably some switch that wants throwing, but I have no idea where it might be. It can wait.
But I keep waiting for something else to go wrong. I guess I won't be comfortable until I've gone through a whole month and run all the maintenance software correctly. Maybe two months. Or three. Damn, I'm stressing out again, there goes my poor tum. I feel like the PC is still fragile, and so am I, and I don't trust either of us. Stupid, no?
Anne, other shoe, just drop and get it over with, please
We're still finding odd little quirks here and there - last night, the LAN icon suddenly acquired an exclamation point, which, when moused over, informed me that the local connection was "limited or unavailable".
Odd, we said, the internet still seems to be there. I assured Emily that it was, if anything, an issue with AT&T and certainly not our computer, but of course we both worried.
So this morning when it was still there, I went to Yahoo help and did a mite of research. Turns out that if you run Windows XP with SP2, which we are, and some other odd bit of Windows software, it produces a false warning. As it said on the Yahoo page, "If you can surf the internet, you don't have a connection problem". There were also instructions for turning the warning off, which I did. If the LAN connection really does go poof, I'm sure I'll notice.
Kitty said she couldn't get MS Works to work, but I tried it and it was fine; I was able to produce and save a document. Maybe she just clicked in the wrong place. I changed the cursor from a black thing that goes transparent to a 3-D white cursor so I can actually see it, and I reset the timing on the screen saver so it comes on before the power-saving thing turns the monitor off.
Our saved images open directly in PaintShopPro instead of the Windows image viewer, but I can live with that. There's probably some switch that wants throwing, but I have no idea where it might be. It can wait.
But I keep waiting for something else to go wrong. I guess I won't be comfortable until I've gone through a whole month and run all the maintenance software correctly. Maybe two months. Or three. Damn, I'm stressing out again, there goes my poor tum. I feel like the PC is still fragile, and so am I, and I don't trust either of us. Stupid, no?
Anne, other shoe, just drop and get it over with, please
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Date: 2007-09-01 03:45 am (UTC)Tomorrow Paul and I drive to Topanga to help Daria pack.
We're also hoping that the crowd of packers/witnesses will deter psycho landlady, who has been looking for an apocalyptic argument ever since Daria's arborist reported that dog pee wasn't harming the pepper tree, in fact it's not dying at all.
Psycho landlady took exception to being contradicted. After all, she found all those websites on the internets that said that dog pee kills trees, how dare mere science contradict her?
As several of us pointed out, if dog pee is bad for trees, there wouldn't be a tree left standing on the planet. Daria gave her month's notice and is going to try to be out of the canyon by the 15th.
Sunday is my earring class, which right now sounds like more than I can deal with. Someplace in there I have to fit in shopping and laundry, and then it's Tuesday and getting Kitty ready to go back to school.
You try to get some rest in there someplace, and so will I.