January 15, 2009
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Up All Night…..
I had one of those nights last night. By that I mean I never went to bed until almost 6:30am. I was up from 8:30am the previous day. Don’t ask me why. I was playing on Pogo to win one of this week’s badges and was thinking about calling it a night when I noticed it was already 2:30am. The Beast scared the hell out of me by coming into the room (he had been sound asleep when I went to get another Sprite Zero a few minutes earlier). He had set our alarm clock in order to download big updates during our *free* time on HughesNet. He said to me, *Have you been up all night?* Well, duh! It wasn’t even halfway through the night at that time.
It was my newly transferred computer that needed the updating since the Beast had put a new operating system on the new hard-drive. I had Windows Ultimate on it and it enabled us to download the total program and all the other stuff on my computer to another drive as a backup in case of the primary drive failing. We had done it. I believe I told you in yesterday’s post that THAT was a big failure….until the Beast realized today that what he should have done is use THAT one as the primary and then copy it all onto the new hard drive and then swap. You really can’t copy it unless it’s on disks. But…back to the downloading….
Since I was up and I am still becoming familiar with Vista, I decided to watch what was being done because we needed to download updates to several programs, not just Windows. The Beast suggested I make a pot of coffee so off I went while the 300 mbs of updates on Windows was downloading. I love my Bunn coffee maker because it takes only 3 minutes to make coffee with it. I got both of us a cup of coffee and returned to the computer room. I mainly need to become familiar with the difference between where I found things in XP and where Vista puts them. I swear they change the names and places just for the sake of change and not because it’s necessary. Vista is not really consumer friendly. You need to be an intermediate user or start off on it (or be a kid…their minds are like sponges…they just suck up the info once and go to town).
By the time we finished downloading what we could (and we were downloading quickly for a change…HughesNet was very fast for a change), it was after 5am. The Beast kissed me goodnight
and headed back to bed. I stayed up to try to find out how to shut down my virus program for when we downloaded programs in the future. After reading the help file and frequently asked questions, I decided the heck with it. The Princess, in the meantime, was up and dressing for school (although I asked her if she knew what time it was because I almost thought she was sleepwalking. She was up about an hour earlier than I figured). She came in while brushing her hair and asked me if I had been up all night. I told her yes but I felt fine (and I did). She finished dressing and left to run over to Johnnycake’s house to pick up a book she had left there that she needed. Johnnycake’s first class wasn’t until 9am so HE got to sleep in longer.Shortly after she left, I realized that I was cold (it might have been partly the lack of sleep that did it) so I threw my pillow down on the floor, laid out a down comforter I have in the closet to lay on and covered myself with my electric blankey. I think I fell asleep within 10 minutes while watching TV. I actually slept for 2 hours and the baby waking up got ME up, too.
So here I am. It’s 9:45pm and I think I will be heading for bed early tonight. At least, early for me. I am usually up until about 1am most nights, playing games on Pogo and chatting with my sister, Bratfink on Yahoo Instant Messenger. Tonight is going to be the coldest night of the winter here in Alabama with wind chills expected in our area up to minus 12 below. It’s dropped down to 20 degrees already on our back deck and Baron, of course, needs to go out to pee but only got his nose and one paw out the door before he backed up like a trucker. This is NOT going to be a good time for him. I’m grateful we have indoor plumbing these days. Can you imagine having to use an outhouse in some of the temperatures around the country? I mean, it was 40 below in Minnesota yesterday.
Who in their right mind LIVES there????? Just experiencing one winter like that and I would be out of there so fast……..Good night all and I love you. Love deeply, laugh often and dance like no one is watching. Hugs for you all and be sure to say *I love you* to everyone you DO love. It might be the last time you talk to them. There are no guarantees in life.
