It’s been far too long since my last post. Again. You see, my computer crashed…

It really did! Last Monday there was a lovely bluescreen waiting for me when I got up to say good morning to my darling laptop, and it turned out the hard drive was, well, indisponiert. Then we went on a mini-vacation… and returned this Monday, at which time the hard drive decided to work again. I don’t get computers.

Anyway, to make a long story slightly shorter, there was something wrong with the hard drive, and some tech guy from Dell was here yesterday and replaced it. (I have a next business day warranty thing. They replace stuff for me.) I even got more storage space (well, 40Gb instead of 30, but what the heck).

There was only one thing left to do when the tech guy had left — reinstall Windows. That’s when I realized I have absolutely no idea where the Dell/XP restoration CD that came with the laptop is. It’s vanished. So, after trying out Debian for a while and not quite liking it, I am now running Fedora Core 5. (Everything works but the SD card reader, if anyone’s interested.)

Oh, and I didn’t knit one stitch during our tiny vacation, but instead managed to almost finish the left front of the green patterned thing as soon as I got home.

That’s when I realized I had misplaced the pattern by one stitch. One. Lousy. Stitch. I’m so glad the baby was asleep when I discovered it, or he would have gotten some very unwelcome additions to his vocabulary. (Not that he’s talking or anything, I just don’t want him to get the wrong idea of his Loving Mother.)

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