I've had a really, really good week... up until yesterday. Even then, it didn't get really bad until today. A very dear friend of mine had to fly today, and I was a bit concerned about it, but it apparently went off just fine. Hopefully, my flight on Monday goes as well. However, with the flight stuff hanging over my head, I didn't need more issues. I was already concerned that I wouldn't be able to take my computer on the flight. No one can guarantee me that they won't tighten the security even further to close out computers and cellphones. One airport person told me today that they had refused a Game Boy on a plane.

At any rate, my computer started seriously dying last night. I have a presentation to make so that I can give it next week. I've spent most of the day and most of yesterday trying to get it to come back to life. I killed the video driver to back it up, and write my frustrations right now. I really don't think I'm that hard on computers, and don't know why they have to die on me at critical times. This same thing happened right before I had to go to Denver, and the machine came back to life. Had it not, I could have sent it off and gotten it back fixed by now. But no, it had to start working. Now, I am trying to rebuild another computer (thank all that's good that I had a backup lying around), and still haven't had a chance to work on my presentation. Yes, yes, I know. Why did I wait so long... Because things are supposed to work, thank you very much.

It looks like I'm almost ready to switch to the backup computer... Maybe I'll get this freakin' thing done after all. I mean, it's only 7:30 pm, surely I can make a 30 minute presentation in a couple of hours... Fortunately, my dear sweet daughter is very accomodating. I can work on it while she has horse lessons tomorrow morning...

Kickin' notebook computer into the trees...