Wecome to Windows XP

So we got a new computer over the weekend ... actually, got it picked up. We bought it last weekend.

It's a Compaq blah blah blah and it has a Pentium 4 blah blah blah 40 gigs blah blah blah. And it runs really fast.

This is only our 2nd computer (well, 3rd, if you count the one we had just for word-processing purposes). My time has been taken up reloading old programs and trying to find bookmarks and such. I thought I had lost the Internet access disc and the printer disc. I have to keep better track of these just in case.

There was one glitch, tho: We bought an MS Office Suite for it, but they gave us the wrong one. We bought the one with PowerPoint, and it wasn't there. So now, we have to unhook the dang thing and take it back to Best Buy so they can uninstall the wrong MS Office and put the right one in.

The best part of the new computer is that now we don't have to deal with mud-slow response anymore. The worst part is trying to get all the settings just right, so it mimics all the settings it took 5 years for us to get on our old computer!

-Zube.

P.S. Thanks for the feedback. I still gotta clarify what I'm doing here tho!

Too old to blog?

I don't know, maybe I just don't have enough energy to blog constantly.

I keep reading blogs of people who post constantly, several times a day. But they have specific topics ... politics, religion. I would do something like that but 1) i'm not THAT knowledgable about politics, and 2) people do a far better job than I would with religion. So the only alternative is my life. Which is not spectacular. No that I'm whining or crying, but it just isn't. I'm married with 2 kids, I'm not 20 and going out every night and taking whirlwind trips with friends. With my hours, I don't make loads of friends.

So what to do? Any ideas, steff and jodie, my only 2 readers? ;)

-Zube.

... But it's a dry heat?

Summer has arrived.

It's supposed to be 107 degrees here today, 110 tomorrow. Yeah, it's bad, but I welcome it for one reason (and one reason only): When it hits 100+ for a few days in a row, my allergies finally go away. All the weeds and stuff that produce the pollen that bothers me die off. Finally, I'll be able to breathe.

Not this weekend, tho. I have a head cold.

Timing is a funny thing ...

-Zube.

Disneyland!

Ok right off, it's NOT the 50th anniversary of Disneyland yet. It opened July 17, 1955. So let's not get ahead of ourselves!

That said, I'm pretty happy about Disneyland, that it is going strong at 50 and there are a lot of plans for bigger and better things, and refurbishments.

I'm a big fan of the place ... we're planning a trip in late June. I know, I know, it'll be crowded. But it's the 50th, people!

I also sent away for a special 6-CD box set on the history of Disneyland, using music and sounds from the first 50 years. If you have a few bucks, look into it!

-Zube.