he's baaaaaack

not that you noticed, but i was gone from the internet for a while, i mean, totally disconnected... not that i couldn't go somewhere and connect, like at a library... and i could have connected the old g2 i have sitting under the table... and i did have the air card, sucky as it is, so i could have connected from anywhere... and i do have internet at work, after all... but the damage was done, the old laptop was killed by my foolish deletion of files... and so i didn't have my passwords and stuff cuz they are all on the old laptop and the old laptop will not boot up... it hangs right where the twain_32 file ought to be found (cuz i deleted it, dog, ruff ruff)...

yeah, so i went out last night after work and applied for a best buy card (yeah, i know, there are reasons not to use best buy... like hey are not handicapped friendly and will not allow service dogs into their stores, for one thing, but desperate times called for desperate measures... they gave me the credit (the fools) and i am not tapping the keys of a brand spanking new toshiba a300 with a t6400 dual core cwntrino set up (almost bought one with centrino2, but they didn't have anything but 14.1 inch screens and i wanted a 15.4, so there) and 4gm sdramm 800mhz and a 320gb hard drive and an ati radeon hd3650 video card with 512mb dedicated video ram which makes the vista home premium ok, especially since sp1 is out... something like 60 security updates later and the computer is running...

i am using a trial version of kaprinsky, which i will probably pay for before the 30 days are up because i want the best anti-virus suite i can buy on this new baby and i suddenly decided, with somewhat less research than i'd usually do to make such a security decision, but hey, i did delete the file that killed the last laptop and locked up all my babblings and passwords and everything else on the hard drive, so just call my impulsive and come sit on my lap for a little while... and i connected the att aircard and after the gigabyte of downloading all the windows updates and the kaprinsky, i went to google and did the forgot password thing and after allowing ssl2 (cuz the page didn't seem to wanna work with only ssl3 allowed) and i reset the password and here we are, back, sort of, on the new shiney laptop...

time to catch up (if i ever get a few weeks sleep :)

hope you didn't miss me too much...