Spent the past 5 hours fighting with my laptop computer. I went to connect to the network and it seemed to connect fine, but I could not reach a website, FTP, SSH, etc. I tried and tried. I did web searches. I asked for help and did what I was told and nothing would fix it. I kept running back and forth between this and that machine like a mad woman.

I forgot I had something in the toaster oven that should have been in for 15 minutes and when I came out to go to this machine, smelled something burning, an hour later.

I removed some hardware settings and that didn’t fix it, then went to try to reinstall it and could not. I was really aggravated.

So, I signed up with a cheapie dial-up figuring at least I’d have a connection, right? Heh, nothing would work, kept giving me errors from timing out (error 718) to wrong username/pass which I knew was right. Tech support was of no help.

I tried to reenable the hardware setting I removed and double clicked something and all of a sudden, I was online. The wireless card AND the wireless hub were sitting on the floor, unplugged, yet I was online via the network. Make sense? Not to me either.

I connected and disconnected 3 times without fail. So, I can get on the network without a card, without a connection, but via magic.

Otherwise, it was a quiet weekend. Did a little bit of stuff around the house. Tomorrow I need to go out and get the paint for the kitchen, but just for one coat to brighten it up a little. Wednesday I have to remove all the hardware from the cabinets and unfortunately, that means 104 knobs have to be removed. I’m only doing the ones I can reach, though, because I don’t have a ladder that I’m comfortable using with the cordless screwdriver in one hand. The kid will remove the rest and he’s bringing a friend to help him paint.

The bathroom looks great. I had an extra quart of paint from when it was originally painted 18 months ago, so was able to touch up some small spots and there is absolutely no way to tell it was touched up. No flash at all, just a perfect blend of color. I even managed to get another ceramic flip-flop and hung it up but made sure the back hanger was very secure first.

Quiet week coming up though I’ll be at the body shop at least once. The bad wiring they replaced didn’t fix the problem so now they need to figure out what’s wrong.

I found the truck I wanted. Saw it on a website someone told me about, so I was so happy. Under $150 a month, 1955 Chevy, no rust, recently painted, something holly or brock (can’t remember) and it’s in Rhode Island. I was practically drooling and then I saw it — the dream killer — manual transmission. Grrrrrrr. So, I’ll keep looking!

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