Bit of Ivory

We finally took Ginny to Best Buy yesterday– after a long and frustrating process Tuesday night of saving the information I don’t want to lose in case they end up reinstalling her– so they could ship her off to the repair facility. And guess what? It’ll take about two weeks just to get an estimate of how much it will cost. Who knows how long it will be after that before I actually get her back again?

I don’t expect to see her before August.

So I got a haircut– I’ll need to make a new avatar thingy– and I took a picture of it on Tuesday to show you all. But Harry and my new digital camera don’t seem to like each other. I spent all night last night trying to get it to work– uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, getting the updated version of the software from the Nikon website, troubleshooting using both the Windoze troubleshooter and the Nikon manual– nothing. They both recognize the presence of the other, but when it comes to transferring pictures from one to the other, Harry thinks there’s no memory card. Which is bogus. More troubleshooting to come.

Harry’s hard drive is 3/4 full– he’s only got a 20 GB one in the first place– and there’s so much junk on there. I’m trying to decide whether to spend the money to get a new hard drive and a copy of XP– or just the hard drive– or just reinstall him with Windows 2K. I definitely want to get a new copy of Norton, though– mine’s ancient. And his sound card doesn’t work. None of this has bothered me lately because I haven’t been using Harry often– but I think now that he’ll be my main computer for the foreseeable future, I’m going to have to do something about it.

In the meantime I feel the urge to write Albus but have no inspiration; I have so many things to do that I feel conflicted about which one to work on and end up doing nothing instead; I feel guilty because I, the Wahlee in Wahleecon, haven’t posted about more than the very first night of the festivities, but at the same time I don’t really feel like writing it up. I’m tired and bored and cranky and I want to do *something* but I can’t figure out what. I desperately want to go back to school and am desperately afraid of it at the same time– what if my exhaustion affects my studies? What if I can’t work as much as I need to and can’t pay my rent? And speaking of rent, I can’t wait to move in with Kate, but I also don’t want to leave my family and my ward and my comfortable no-risk life.

I think I just need to get more sleep.