Life It's Ownself

What a week!

BAD: Mrs. OWW was hospitalized with diverticulitis - a pretty nasty instestinal disorder that is VERY painful.

GOOD: Meelie-Noh (the nine-year-old) got to go to a cheer-leading competition, which was held at a place called "Wild Adventures" out in Waycross, GA. Meelie informs me that she had a really good time, and they placed well in the competition.

GOOD/BAD: Mrs. OWW is home from the hospital (GOOD), but tires easily, is weaker than a kitten, and although we don't talk about it, she's deathly afraid of a relapse (which would be Very Bad Indeed).

BAD: The clothes washer is beating itself to death - which will mean, sooner rather than later, another $500 out the door, as I don't want to buy used.

GOOD/BAD: The new (to me, at least) truck runs well, and doesn't appear to have any horrendously expensive problems, which is GOOD. It does need a new muffler, which in itself isn't bad, but I wanted to do a DIY (Do It Yourself) - and the parts stores want $100+ for a new muffler - plus clamps and gaskets - which is BAD.

GOOD: Through the generosity of my Dad, we now have a rather nice laptop, brandy-spanking new, with a nice widescreen (Very GOOD), 1 Gig of memory (GOOD), a 100 Gig Hard disk (GOOD), the usual crappy laptop keyboard (NORMAL for laptops) and a too-sensitive mushpad (BAD) that has a little button to disable it (GOOD), built-in Wireless-G (Very GOOD), and Windows Vista Home Premium (Unknown Good or Bad).

I'm of two minds about Vista - I've been using XP Professional for a while, and it's solid, and I know how to make it sit up and beg. OTOH, Vista is alleged to be more secure, and is visually very attractive. On the BAD side, one of my favorite untilites, Robotype, doesn't work with Vista - that's BAD. We'll have to see how it behaves as we go along....

And for all y'all in the cold parts of the country, it IS December 2nd, and here in SE Jawja it did hit 80F today, and I'm still wandering about in shorts and a t-shirt, even though it's dark outside at 6:30PM and it's still 78F.

Which is GOOD.