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Still don’t have any internet at our new house so all of my online goings are pretty spare. If you need me, my email’s piratecakes (at) gmail.com Don’t expect a response right away, though!

Oh, and by the way - I’ve moved!

I think the winter really is getting to me. This weekend was pretty productive; I felt restless for a majority of it and it ended up paying off - I wiped my hard drive clean and reinstalled Windows. All I can say is, thank God for MDG Computers and their step-by-step instructions. If it weren’t for the idiot-guide they provided (which was totally what I needed) I think it would have gone a lot worse. I went to G’s on Sunday so I couldn’t finish putting all the programs I need back onto it, but I’m excited to finish that up tonight. The best part is finding the next generation programs that my old girl couldn’t handle before because of the trash clogging her up. Microsoft Office 2007, here I come!

The one thing I didn’t do was partition the hard drive. I was worried that I would do something wrong so I’ll leave it until the next time I feel brave enough to wipe out everything on my computer, lol. Now that I’ve done it once, though, I’m fairly confident I can do it again. Baby steps!

I must not be the only one who enjoys clearing out her computer, am I? You have to admit that there’s a real pleasure in restoring your computer to its factory settings, n’est pas?

*Quiet silence*

Okay, so I’m the only nerd on the block … I get it. Whatever!

Further evidence of my nerdiness? At lunch today, I went to the dollar store and bought a candy bowl and some Easter candy for my desk at work. Yes, I’ve become that admin assistant - the one with the food. I must say, it looks pretty snazzy. It’s full of Easter Hershey’s kisses and fake Easter “grass” (the kind you put into an Easter basket). The grass cost me a dollar - I wasn’t going to say no to that kind of value, ok?

On that note, I think it’s time to sign off. There’s mucho to do to get this computer back in working order. Did you know that you can’t even install Itunes if you don’t have Windows XP Service Pack 2?! I’m living in the stone ages! I gotta upgrade!

I feel so accomplished when I get things done. Today I had two things on my list of “to-do”: call Epson Tech Support about my printer and call my driving school regarding more lessons and I did them both. Normally I loathe talking to strangers on the phone, usually putting stuff like that off, but today I got it done, I did it Tech Support was wonderful; it didn’t solve my problem, but I at least got them to do something about it; I have to send my printer off to get fixed. That’s a new pain in my ass, but at least it’ll be done and over with. The driving school, well .. my instructor was on vacation, that’s why he hasn’t called me to set up the new appointments. That’s kinda iffy, but I suppose we’re all entitled to go on vacation, right? I just wish he would have called me earlier before he left to let me know .. but I suppose it was my prerogative to do that, since I was the last to cancel the appointment, right?

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