Still not done…

September 29, 2007 by annadulcekelly.

Well, the computer decided to act up again after that time I started over from scratch.  I’ve since then reinstalled Windows again, but I hadn’t loaded a whole lot of my old crap back on.  I have a couple of newer external drives, one of which will be used to back up the whole hard drive after I’m done loading all my crap onto it.  I also have a new internal drive…who knows when I will actually turn this thing off to put that in.  My room is still a mess.  I’m not making much progress right now.  There are too many other pressing concerns to deal with.

We just signed a new contract with the newspaper.  Another year of that, only more difficult.  First off there’s a new program to use (and therefore learn).  I should be happy, one of the guys who came up with it and called the walk me through a few things was pretty impressed with me.  But I think there’s still a steep learning curve.  And I do not relish the idea of being the only one to understand how to use it.  Also there is some added pressure as far as getting on that system and getting off the old one by the 5th of November.  We do that, we get an extra $1000.  So there’s a $1000 deadline on my head.  The use of the program and their server is costing us a whopping $3500 a year, but the newspaper is taking care of that, at least as far as I know, this year.  Next year is another contract, so who knows.  They’re palming off more of the responsibilities on to us.  All the equipment in the depot, they’re ours now, except for a few things they hadn’t put a price on yet.  We get to keep the copier and the printer, which they were gracious enough to sell to us for $84 and $25, respectively.  Compared to retail value (new), that’s really cheap, but these things have a lot of mileage on them.  Also now we have to pay for maintenance.  We had to buy a new computer, because they’re not going to spend the time reconfiguring the one we’re using so we can buy those from them.  We found really cheap ones, off-lease, Dell, for $100 each.  We got one for the depot and one for Dad, to replace his Windows ME 3gb HD one…my main concern with that one was that Zonealarm wasn’t updating for that OS anymore.  They also had laser printers really cheap.  They’re huge but, at $100 for Dad’s B&W HP 8150 and $150 for my color HP 8550n (with stand & wheels), they’re really cheap.  And whoever sent us the info on this place we bought the stuff from, sent us links to cheap cartridges for the printer, so I think we’re going to be fine.  $560+ for 2 used Dell desktops, 2 huge laser printers and a Dell LCD monitor…it’s not too bad.  They’re not new but we didn’t need them new anyway.

So…I have to install the drivers on the PCs for the new printers so we can use them all for work.  I have to install my usual “protection” stuff on the new PCs.  I have to set up remote desktop to run that new program from.  I…I…I…I wonder why the company isn’t in my name, LOL.  I seem to be going out of my mind dealing with all this stuff.  And to think I haven’t learned how to drive yet…when I do, then there’s only going to be more things to do.

No wonder my room is getting nowhere.

So tired and hungry…hungry and not losing weight…108 and staying there.  Not good.  But I can’t stop eating.  Maybe I should just let that go, and have one less thing on my mind.

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