bleah

[freckles_and_doubt]

That'll teach me to be all smug about something as small and pointless as a CMOS battery. All transient victories aside, the motherboard is stuffed, and the machine is currently in the shop having a new motherboard expensively installed. While my gratitude to the dynamic duo of jo&stv is infinite, in that this little borrowed laptop allows me to connect to Teh Internet, said laptop is also slow, cranky and idiosyncratic. Work on the final encyclopedia entry has ground mostly to a halt, since the laptop's version of Word 2000 has a complicated private religion of its own which does not permit it to cut and paste, either from the keyboard or from the menu, or to drag and drop, and the kind of editing and writing I'm currently trying to do really needs, strangely enough, an edit function. Cussing.

The weather, as they say, continues good. It's all warm and sunny, just in time for my mother to leave for the UK again tomorrow, at the ungodly hour of 5am. If you run into me tomorrow in any context, do not expect coherence.

p.s. yup, bedroom wall fell on me in my dreams last night.