Bill's Notes

I hope. Well, my new computer died. Crashed about 30 times today. I kept restarting, doing diagnostics, reading the logs, defragging, simplifying, doing everything my meager PC-troubleshooting skills could handle. But I've failed. I restarted one too many times, and now I can't even get to Windows. Not the blue screen of death, but pretty damned close.

Now I'm working on a backup computer. I needed to clean this one up, anyway. Fortunately, I've got the wireless keyboard and mouse set up on this one, so it was really simple to re-set-up. Took less than five minutes.

The problem on the other computer: I think the problem may be the NIC card, the graphics card, or something else. There are repeated TCP/IP failures in the logs blaming the NIC card (it also said it could be a couple of others things that I've forgotten). But I'm not sure why it would crash while I'm searching the computer when not connected to the Net. It seems to crash randomly. Could be a loose wire. In any case, I'll address it when I can.

Alas, new computer, we hardly knew thee!

Apparently Hillary Clinton made up a fanciful story about Bosnia, demonstrating she's crazy. Because I believe she believes her story. Don't know how she got that mixed up.

Perhaps a senior moment. I'm only 44, and sometimes I've been in the middle of thinking about something, and then I'll wonder -- hey, did I see this on TV, dream it, or did it really happen to me? (I assume if I'm asking this question, then it didn't really happen.)

Otherwise, Orlando is Orlando -- flat, new, and filled with so many of the same landmarks that everything pretty much looks the same. Got lost twice, as usual. (Fortunately, I plan to get lost in Orlando.)

Did get a little tired of hearing how cold it was when it was 66 degrees. Of course, it did get down to 50 at night. So yeah, it was freezing. I think it was 38 degrees when I left, 50 when I came back. But it's a little warmer today.

I've only been home one night in the past 11 -- and that was only for a few hours with no time to sleep, because I had to leave to go back to the airport at 3:45 a.m.

So now I'm back at work and catching up. On my work, not on my blogging -- but I wanted to do a quick update.

Cheers. Hope all's well by all of you.

Thank you for the prayers and best wishes. It took about six harrowing days, but my mother did get better. Turns out there's no permanent damage, but she does have one more thing to monitor and watch out for. At least for the time being, she dodged a bullet.

One more thing: Nurses are saints.

Thanks again.