The brand, spankin’ new mega-monster PC is still in the shop. They’ve confirmed that the onboard ethernet port is busted. But they put in a new, identical mobo, and the system still isn’t working. New RAM also. So, now they’re checking whether one of my boards is causing the problem. Another day or two is required, which means I won’t get it back until Tuesday at the earliest.

Living via my laptop is certainly ok, although I feel like I’m eating every meal out of a picnic basket. But there are some problems. First, my Quicken data is on the broken desktop machine which means that my bills are going unpaid. Second, there’s the forking of my email. Yes, sure, we all want to say “Forking email!” from time to time, but all I mean is that I have to remember to search two separate Outlook files when I look for old messages.

Also, all the good games are on the desktop machine. Not that that matters. I can control my finger twitches. Really I can. Must. Must. Control. Twitching.

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