lisaviolet's diary

Friday, November 24, 2006

otherstuff
02:50 PM - 11/24/2006

The topic: Whine time
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So, Fedex finally shows up about 2:15. I hand him the box with the hard drive. Just like I handed the box with the hard drive to the delivery woman on Tuesday. With the same result. “Oh, that’s ground, I can’t take that.” What? What!

I take the envelope in one hand and carry the box and the envelope into the house. I went back into the office and told Brian we have to get this box out today. Otherwise, they’re gonna charge me for the new hard drive. They said to get it out in three days. Well, yesterday being a holiday, I’m sure that would be forgiven. After all, I didn’t get my disks yesterday and they were sent “overnight”.

I found a place to take the box, not that far from here. I was back in the office, I bent over just a little to pick up the box and got extreme shooting pains through my mid-back. Gah! I don’t need this right now. I want to get my computer up and running!

Brian drove down to the shipping place, I took the box in and left it. On the way down, we were right behind the kid who said it wasn’t his job. Heh. Anyway, the back spasms weren’t too bad. Brian wants to take me to the chiropractor, but we’re not sure if he’s even open today. If he is, they’ll be back answering the phone in five minutes.

If he’s not in, I’m going to see about getting my computer back up. We have lots of Aleve. And calcium. Maybe ice cream might help, too. *lol*

I think I threw my back out yesterday cleaning the shampooer. Remember I said I washed the garage floor yesterday? I also cleaned the shampooer, I took it outside and when it didn’t roll on the grass, I carried it. Bad idea, I’m thinking right now.

Ouch.

But I’ll tough out the pain for the love of my computer.

(I don’t think the chiro will be in, I really don’t.)

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4:00 PM

And we’re on the road to recovery! Hard drive is erasing right now, when this is finished, I’ll push the “R” and recovery will commence. Yay! I’m hoping my backup of the C drive will be a major help to resetting the system the way I want it.

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otherstuff
11:34 AM - 11/24/2006

The topic: Yesterday’s dinner
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It was worth the fourteen bucks, but I have to say I was a little disappointed in the meal.

Why? The turkey wasn’t the kind of turkey that’s taken out of the oven and sliced off of the bone. It was like one of those pressed turkey loaves you get at the store, that you just heat and slice. There wasn’t really all that much on the plate. There was a little tiny paper cup with cranberries in it, two slices of pressed white turkey over some dressing and sweet potatoes on the side. The gravy was on the sweet potatoes and none was on the mashed potatoes or turkey/dressing. ??? The sweet potatoes were good and since there wasn’t much on my plate to begin with, I figured I’d take advantage of the “all you can eat”. Well, they were in such a rush to get the customers in and out, that our pie was there before the second helping of potatoes.

I was almost finished with the pie when a server came out with the sweet potatoes. I just looked at her and said “I’m eating dessert, I’m done with the entre”.

Like I said, it was worth the money, but I didn’t like feeling like I was one of a herd of cattle. And I’d really like to have had real turkey.

I told Brian this morning, I’d really like to cook a turkey, have real meat. We’ve got one back in the shop. He said “make one for Christmas.” Nah, my mom does that and she does a most excellent job of it. My turkey dinners are pathetic compared to hers. The only thing I make better is the gravy.

Maybe I’ll do it next week sometime. I like turkey.

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otherstuff
11:08 AM - 11/24/2006

The topic: Waiting
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I’m so horrible at waiting. Today, I wait for Fedex.

As soon as they get here, I can begin to reconstruct my computer. I’ve tried to keep busy. I emptied the dishwasher, made the bed, read the newspaper.

I ordered a new headset for my at home cordless phone, since it looks like the cats chewed the old headset cord. I found the prices have come way down on them, which is nice.

It’s almost eleven. I’m watching CourtTV, Forensic Files.

Brian said something about going and looking at tractors. I said something about “today? You want to leave the house while I’m busy getting the computer running? You want to be gone?” Then I said “why look at new tractors when you don’t have any place to store what you’ve got? Hmm? And before you think about getting a new tractor, why don’t you fix the ones you’ve got?” He’s got one back in his shop that’s been there for years. He works on it about once every six months. It should be done by now. So, today, he’ll finally fix the gas leak on our new stove (the part had to be ordered and the guy at Sears told him it was a part that wouldn’t have been covered, even if we’d notified the company we bought it from the day we got it, which doesn’t sound right. Then he’ll work on his tractor.

And I’ll sit here and wait for Fedex.

I hate waiting

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