I can’t believe Carter chose church and choir over dugout level tickets to the Braves game. Come on. I’m sure God understands how awesome those tickets were…He’d forgive you! Man oh man. (Sarah shakes her head.)
It’s weird: having missed opening night in favor of the basketball game, I feel like I spaced out on the beginning of the season. I’ve been turning on ESPN at night regularly now, but whenever they give the baseball highlights it feels a bit out of place. Truly tragic. I need to get my butt to the ballpark to get myself back into it, but unfortunately the Astros have gone on the road till the end of next week. And at that point I’ll be MS150ing it towards Austin. My first game of the season will be April 20, against the Cardinals. Sigh.
We won our softball game last night in a low-scoring affair, 6-4. I went 1-for-3 and made a good catch in the outfield, so yay. After the game, Jason and I took Fred and Katie to find their first geocache; Fred just got the GPS attachment for his PDA and was eager to test it out. We found the “Near NASA” cache, containing some STS-107 stuff and hidden just across the road from Gilruth. Cool.
From there it was home to watch The Apprentice (Bill’s gonna win; Omorosa is sabotaging Kwame; Why did he pick her?!? Though he was choosing second, so he’d probably have ended up with her anyway…) and fix my computer. The freaking bastard computer.
Yeah, it’s still not working perfectly. Managed to format the hard drive again and reinstall Windows, but then couldn’t get the screen resolution above 640×480. Very maddening. Reinstalled the video card drivers and that finally made the screen resolution normal again, thank god. Got the sound card working again. Got the modem working (because SBC was having a DSL outage, bastards). Was finally feeling good when BAM, up pops some crazy error message I’ve never seen before that says something about RPC service and starts counting down from 60 seconds, then restarts the computer. What the hell is going on?!? So I do some research on it this morning when I get to work to figure it out, and I find that hey, beautiful, within an hour of reinstalling the OS from a completely blank hard drive, and not having been able to download the Windows patches since I have no DSL and didn’t want to do it over the modem, I’ve picked up the Blaster worm virus!
I HATE WINDOWS!!!!
So to sum up, my computer still is screwed up, and tonight I get to install all the freaking security patches and some antivirus software. This computer has caused me nothing but headaches. But I’m sure not calling Tech Support!! (At this point, they’d probably just laugh at me anyway since nothing is as it was when they shipped it.)
I know computers have made our lives better and blah blah blah, but I think I would be a lot less cranky if they’d never been invented.