Well, the good news is that I got a new computer.  Starting a couple months ago, I had noticed that there were some strange glitches with certain non-essential files on my hard drive.  It was annoying, so I started moving all of my non-system and non-program files on to my other hard drive.  This seemed to make the problem go away.  But then, last week, I noticed that the computer was getting slower and slower, and I knew it was just a matter of time before the thing blew out.  However, I was just going to wait it out, because I had planned to get a new computer after we moved int our new place in March.  But then that got postponed, and it got to where it took me an hour to do 5 minutes worth of work.  So, Tuesday night at 8:30 I headed to Best Buy to buy me a new computer.  Fortunately, I'd been doing a lot of research on this while helping Clinton look for his new computer.  And fortunately, Best Buy had the computer in stock.  Unfortunately, the number of people asking questions heavily outnumbered those who were there to answer them.  So, it took me 45 minutes to point to the computer I wanted, for them to pull it down off the high shelf right next to me, and to finally check out.

The next day, I had a client meeting in Vista (two hours away), and my computer needed to be up and running with all of my files and programs loaded.  So, I set to to work setting everything up, and finished the essential stuff by 6:00 a.m.  After a quick hour nap, I was up and out the door, and Clinton took me to Enterprise for me to pick up a car.  (Jamie's been working on a project down on Rodeo Drive all week.)  Here's something that I hadn't realized: Rain means no cars at rental car places.  Apparently, the cars that people have been renting, they have been wrecking, so the rental cars are in the shop.  Plus, people have been wrecking their own cars in the rain, so they need to rent one.  Anyway, I had to wait 45 minutes or so for a car, but I was really too tired to care much, and getting upset wouldn't get me a car any faster.  I made the drive, had the meeting, then drove back, except that the drive back took 4 hours because of traffic.  Boy, I slept well that night.

I spent all day Thursday copying over the rest of my files, then stayed up late again Thursday night, cleaning and reorganizing my desk and the area around it, that some might call an 'office'.  My old computer is now turned off, but has power and network attachments, in case I need to power it up and retrieve some file I forgot.  Once we move, it is destined to become a test server.  I'll blog again with my first impressions of my new computer.