Jun
13
6-13-08
Filed Under Me, My Progeny
Friday the 13th. Ooga booga.
Laptop status: still broked. I managed to get the hard drive out and installed into a portable drive so I could back up all of the vital information (i.e. my entire iTunes directory), but I hit a snag with my external DVD burner. It too seems to be broked. I can get it to connect and all that good stuff, but when I try to get it to burn a DVD it acts like it can’t see the disc. Any disc for that matter. To be honest, I’ve had it since Christmas and have never used it, so it’s possible that it’s always been broked.
So instead of making DVD backups of my hard drive I copied most of the important stuff onto my wife’s computer. It’s over 15G of data that I have to back up so transfering has been slow, especially since my wife’s computer has some auto-sleep mode that I can’t seem to override. So I have to babysit the entire process, returning to the computer and shaking the mouse every 30 minutes or so to keep it from going into hibernation mode (update: I figured out how to turn that off, thankfully).
The giant pile of mulch? Still there. We’ve already covered all of the flower beds and tree skirts with the required allotment, but there’s still quite a bit of mulch that’s still blocking the driveway. Options are to either try to wash it all down the storm drain (yes, I’m kidding) or go back around and give each bed an additional covering. The extra layer might serve as a motivator for the trees, let’s them see what happens to trees that don’t cooperate.
More news on the bone breakage front, this time from my daughter. Apparently during her soccer game Monday night she took a ball off her pinky finger. She didn’t mention it until late that night in a very “oh by the way” fashion. She jammed it pretty good; it was very swollen and turning purple around the joint, but she was moving it pretty good and she said it didn’t hurt so we just figured it was jammed, nothing more. She worried about it much of the next day so my wife decided to take her in and have it x-rayed to be sure. Verdict? Broken. The doctor put her in a splint and referred her to a hand doctor, whom she visited yesterday. The hand doctor confirmed the broken status and fitted her with a waterproof cast (We opted for the waterproof cast since her birthday is coming up in a couple weeks and she’s having a pool party). It’s a lovely shade of hunter safety orange and she’ll be wearing it for at least the next month.
Well, that about does it for this week. If I can work around the computer situation I’ll be doing the meerkat summary later tonight. Otherwise have a good weekend, see you Monday.