1:01 p.m.||||2001-12-13

Someone somewhere, has the answer to my computer problems
...I'm kind of sad because after spending hours on it yesterday I couldn't defragment my discs because in order to do that I first must scan them for errors and, well, here's the thing. Each time I try to do the "thorough" scan it tries "ten times" before it tells me to close everything out because something is trying to write to the disc in the meantime. So, we closed out everything including the screen saver and the virus program and still, it comes back with that message. It's sweet, though, because it tries and tries - "ten times!" - before it comes back to tell me it aint going so well.

For two hours last night I couldn't get my system to recognize the attributes in my printer, but that was actually my bad.

So, in addition to learning html, I apparently have to become a wizard in other ways as well. Damn.

My son is cutting a tooth and is full of need.

We missed the pediatrician appointment because we overslept and I had to reschedule.

Lots of great people signed my guestbook, sighs contentedly.

Had pizza for dinner last night.

Julio got a job at the Christian bookstore; yesterday I, the only person on Earth who knows how to, gave him a haircut.

I have new software for that dumb motherf$&*ing calendar, and it works, although it also causes errors.

I have over a thousand digital photos stored in my C drive, oops. I might be getting a burner for Christmas.

I am exhausted and flabbergasted which is why I am rambling on like an automatron.

Did I mention I freaked out the day before yesterday? Yeah, I did. Skipped tables for style sheets and almost self combusted.

If at any point, one of you folks who are more computer savvy than I recognizes a question you might be able to answer, feel free - feel encouraged - to let me know. What are your experiences with defragmenting, for example? Would it help if you knew that the scan of folders and files only comes back with no errors; it's only the scan that includes the discs themselves that comes back with my message that there is another program running? I mean, come one, what the f%^*? Would it help to know that sometimes, in the dark, with use of both hands, I can find my ass?

(HA HAHAHAHHHA AH HAH!)

I'm super tired and smelly.

As well as halfway to amped on caffeine, and sleepy too?

Anyway, I have to go see a man about installing a wish list...You guys have been great!