Ugh, what a day. Well, five hours anyway!

Today after class, I got the three of us and B (secretary) some lunch and went to the house/office that I sometimes do computer work at. It’s been a little while since I’d been there, but the printer still wasn’t printing and I had other tasks to complete. They’re switching rooms around so I had to move the daughter’s computer into the parents’ bedroom and the parents’ computer up into the over-the-garage apartment as well as setting up a printer for the lady’s laptop and fixing the printer with the office computer and cleaning the office computer.

I cleaned the office computer and while waiting for the “new” fax/print/copier to install, I went to move the first computer into the bedroom. But, alas, someone had already moved it! It was in the living room in a pile. Somehow, they’d moved it with all cables in tact, still connected everywhere, and dumped it into a big pile of wires complete with two extra mice, an extra keyboard, and some other junk. So the first task was to untangle all of that. How I wished for that computer to be equipped with everything bluetooth and otherwise wireless at that time!

So anyway, finally got that one in place of the other computer and took the other one upstairs and set it up in this tiny area, set up the laptop to print wirelessly… but never could get that printer to work. I took one I was replacing with the fax, etc., and hooked it up to my laptop and it worked immediately. So there’s some problem with the computer, not the printers. This has been an on going problem and I’ve been unable to figure it out. I finally talked her into reformatting. I mean, this computer has been going since something like 2002, seriously. I’m surprised it still runs, given the abuse it goes through from their son who thinks it’s a good idea to install a bunch of casino crap and other things on it each week he comes home from college.

I told B that I was going to hang a sign on the computer. “Dear N, do not touch this computer under penalty of death. If you mess it up again, Val is going to have to kill you.”

On the upside, he does insure I have an occasional job with them. :P It’s just frustrating to keep having to clean the computers off over and over again from the same crap.

The reason she didn’t want me reformatting was because she first of all, doesn’t really understand it, and secondly was afraid of losing software. All they need is Windows, Office, and Quickbooks – they have Quickbooks so I said I will handle the other two. It just needs to be done. So that’s for tomorrow, hopefully it won’t take a terrible amount of time.

So that was my day today. Took longer than expected but Elijah and Sarah handled it well, entertaining themselves with toys and the dog and later the TV. Though I wanted to smack Elijah when I told him it was time to go, to start cleaning up the toys and he looked straight at me and said, “I. Am. Watching. This!” Ugh.

I’m feeling better, by the way. Still have a cough and some congestion but it’s not nearly what it was. In fact, we went out to eat Friday night and then to a store afterward and on the drive down, my right ear just suddenly cleared and the pressure was gone – it was like heaven, I tell you! But then in the store, now being spoiled by my clear right ear, I tried again to clear the pressure in my left (I think you know what I mean, nothing gross) but that only succeeded in re-filling my right ear. And I tell you what, it was so fast and so hard that I actually got dizzy, very dizzy, for about five minutes after that. I almost fell over it threw my balance so bad. But then after a few minutes, it cleared again. Finally now, my ears and that area of my head don’t seem clogged and I can fully hear again, but I just know that the ears are infected so I’m going to try to get to the doctor soon anyway. The medicine he gave me for them last time expired last month, so, yeah.

Well, uh, now I’m just rambling…