I've decided that the dual-boot idea is a bit too This Way Lies Madness, so never mind.
Stupid thing I discovered last night as I worked on restoring the laptop: I forgot to back up my fonts. Ooops. Not a huge deal, since most of the ones I actually paid for came from Chank and I can re-download them. But, still, dumb. Also dumb was not realizing that the first thing I should do was re-install my anti-virus and anti-spyware programs. I got an adware infestation almost immediately and had to spend a little time getting rid of porn popups. Bah. Everything else has been pretty smooth.
I find this sort of work relaxing, though; everything happens for a reason in the laptop's world, even if I have to do a bit of work to find out that the reason is a .dll file that keeps regenerating itself in my system32 folder.
We've had a 19" monitor sitting in the living room since I got my laptop. It was on the floor, just out of the way enough to keep walking past it every day. I finally moved it this week because I needed a new monitor at St. Ned's. The empty space it left has me wondering what else is in my way that I just step around. How long does it take for something to stop being annoying and just become the Way Things Are?
I broke the carafe on our smallish coffeemaker a few weeks ago. A replacement one costs about the same as a whole new unit, but of course that requires a trip to Target that I haven't made, so...Dennis determined that a big pyrex measuring cup works reasonably well. I have a feeling that we'll be making hobo coffee in that cup for a while, and maybe that's ok. We'll stop even noticing that there's no carafe until someone points it out 6 months from now.
I think there's probably something good about not being overly rigid and living in a Coffee Must Be Made In Its Intended Vessel world, but I also wonder if the overall chaos that is my life is working against me. If there's a point at which half-assed becomes less charming than I like to delude myself into thinking it is, in other words.
One good thing about moving the monitor is that I found my missing leather BCP under it, which I hadn't seen since November. That's BCP as in Book of Common Prayer, not Birth Control Pills, by the way. Although I've certainly combined them into Birth Control Prayer once or twice. One of my Things I Should Invent is a tampon case that plays the Hallalujah Chorus. Because sometimes, it's just the best thing that can happen to you.
My other favorite Imaginary Thing is a website that tells you where to get the cheapest 12-pack of Diet Crack at any given time. Because I feel like my head turns into a giant sucker when I pay full price, ya know? Speaking of deals, I am now a huge fan of Magazine Price Search, after scoring 2 years of Budget Living for $5.00. Hopefully this will not result in something like our current situation, in which somehow a free sub to Blender has begat FHM has begat Maxim has begat Stuff and now I just feel like I'm seeing too much of Mariah Carey's boobs all of a sudden, because they are on the cover of every magazine that comes to our mailbox. When did I invite Mariah Carey's boobs over?
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