Pain in the Afterpart

Finally got around to installing IIS 7.0 and its administrative interface today.
I also tried to install Drupal, Joomla and some other programs. What a pain! Each app not only requires a database password, which is nuisance enough, but also up to two additional password keys. Overkill, methinks, for a single-user development machine.
So, I’ve spent about the last 9 hours – since 4:30 this morning – on maintenance.
I’m ready for a nap.

Persistence

I worked for over 5 hours this morning and a couple last night to resolve a network driver problem with my HP Pavilion.
This followed an unsuccessful attempt to update drivers, itself an unsuccessful attempt to resolve a Blue Screen issue that’s been reported for both Vista and Windows 7.
My Broadcom wireless driver is still fried, but I’m hard-wired to the Comcast modem via a newly-installed NVIDIA nForce driver, and that’ll do for now – especially since everything fits into the computer armoire.
So, it looks like my bedroom is a bedroom again, which is probably not a bad thing, and the spare room is an office.
I do miss the view of the garden, though.

Sander

Tried out the sander today. It works well, although I need heavier grit quarter sheets.
Turned on the heat, finally. I just couldn’t stand the cold any longer.

Yard Work

Mowed the lawn, which needed it. Watered the new grass garden at 11. Did a transfer station run with Peter. Comcast was out to check on a problem with the box outside that affected several houses.

Knowing Another

Last night’s season finale of “Mad Men” featured the engagement of Don Draper, the handsome, middle-aged, literally self-made man – to his 25 year old secretary. Which brought up the question, “Does she really know him?” (Answer: no, since Don has not yet revealed his actual identity to her).
That resonates because I’m wondering the same thing: at what point do we really know another person well enough to say that we love them and not our idea of them?

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Hyacinths

Planted a half dozen hyacinths yesterday in between the back yard Montauks. Should be a great spot, since it gets a lot of sun. I was happy to get them in before last night’s rain.
Had a really nice, easy supper tonight, baked pollock (beautiful fillet from Roche Bros) and a home made Asian Salad knockoff with romaine, peapods, craisins, almonds, noodles and Drew’s sesame orange dressing, far superior to Kraft’s.

Mulch

100_3333.jpgUnloaded a yard of wet mulch today at Edgewater. Emme helped spread about half on the new grass garden, and she also decorated with some of the larger rocks. It looks quite nice.

Peter will take some pix tomorrow, and I may go back myself to finish weeding and spreading in the front.

I’d like to know how much that mulch weighs! I’ve seen estimates of 800-1,000 pounds.

Fell into a deep sleep, woke up about two hours later.

Remembered that poor Fluffles had been outside the whole time!

Buttoned Up

I’ve been sleeping very well, going to bed early and getting up before dawn. Sweet Mr. Fluffles has been curling up with me.
I spent most of yesterday in front of a computer screen. A full-time gig fell through for budget reasons, so I’m on the lookout again for work.

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