Thank you!!
My birthday was very fun. Took the family to Kobe Steakhouse.
But today...not so good. My wife had some ideas of how the day should go, and I wanted to cannibalize parts from one of my old computers to put into my other old computer, along with a wireless network card so that I could create a nice working computer for them.
Needless to say, my project wasn't as important as x-mas lights or getting a tree, even though had we not argued, we could have gotten both done in the same day...but because we fought, I did what I wanted to do and who knows what she did.
Right now I am using my upgraded computer for the kids with the network card. I FINALLY got it working. It seems like most software that computer parts makers give you is crap. All you really need to do is to let Windows find the new hardware and then use the CD for drivers. But somehow they all say "DON'T PUT THE CARD IN UNTIL YOU INSTALL THE SOFTWARE and that causes more problems than it solves. Dragon...is that your experience too?
Anyway...it's finally working with an addional memory chip and and additional hard drive (from my old computer) and the network card working flawlessly. Now I await the delivery of my new Dell, which should come any minute!
I don't know where my wife is. She called me from Once Upon a Child to "apologize" - You know..the *censored*ty "I'm sorry...but". Leave it to a woman to ACTUALLY apologize without strings attached to them. But she tried to press me for a timetable as to when I might be ready to join her. I don't know about you, but when I'm deep into a computer project and trying to get things back to working order, there is NOTHING on the planet I want to do prior to fixing it.
So I couldn't give here a timetable. So she HUNG UP ON ME. Anyway...she'll cool off in a few hours...then it's time for makeup sex!
Wish me luck!
