Well, dadgumit (as we say in the south)! My computer is sick. It appears to have had a complete mental breakdown. It will start up and everything, but the neither mouse nor any of peripherals will work, and whatever I ask it to do, it does something else. I've called the Geek Squad, but they can't come out until Sunday afternoon. Guess there's some kind of computer stuff going around. I'm using Vann's laptop, but I don't like it. And I can't download photos with it. So, dadgumit!
Vann and Al have gone off to play boy games for the weekend, and Sohie and I have the place to ourselves. I have to do the book club newsletter and prepare for a guild program that I'm in charge of on Monday, so I doubt I'll get lonesome.
My sister's (Pat's) entire whole family is sick. It started with Baby Reed, who got so sick with a high fever that he had to go to the emergency room on Monday night, where they told his parents that it was "just a virus." Pat, his grandmother, 'bout had a hissy fit. Reed's her first grandchild, and this is the first time he's been really sick, so Pat just took a leap off the deep end. I thought we were going to have to call the paramedics to her. So now she's sick too, and so is Buffy (Reed's mommy). They're both in bed and Reed's daddy Jason is taking care of Reed.
So Pat is hostess for book club next month and as such is required to choose the book we read. All week I've been trying to get a book out of her so I can publish the newsletter and let everyone know what the book is so they can start reading, but she's been too preoccupied with illness and grandbabies and stuff to pick one. So I picked one for her (Nora Ephron's I Don't Like My Neck or I Worry About My Neck or something like that). I called her just now and told her. Not sure she likes the choice, but she couldn't come up with anything better--so that's going to be it. I know if it's as good a Heartburn it'll be a good 'un.
The trouble is, I really need my computer to do the newsletter and also to prepare for the guild program. I guess I'll have to use this laptop, which has none of my publishing programs on it. Maybe I should just forget the whole thing and go to bed too.
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On 03/15/2007, Rian said ...
Goodness! (Or should I say badness) What travails! I hope everyone gets their stuff together and get healthy (computers included) soon.
On 03/16/2007, Buffy said ...
Make sure Pat hoses down her house with Lysol before y'all come over, because YOU DO NOT WANT THIS STUFF WE HAVE.
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