Back online -- and now wireless!

Yes, I'm writing this on the laptop, down on the couch in the basement, connected to my own wifi, not stealing someone else's. But let's go back a bit . . .

So, the morning after I posted last I got a message that Norton had an update available and I was encouraged to update. Ok, fine. When I was installing it, I was told that it was incompatible with Zone Alarm, and that I would have to uninstall Zone Alarm. Fine. I did. Installed the new Norton. Then, thinking, c'mon, I've seen messages about "incompatible" before, I went ahead and reinstalled Zone Alarm. Um, no, they really do mean they're incompatible. The computer would get a certain point in the start up and then lock up. So, I called MAH. I mean, I kind of knew what I needed to do, I just wasn't sure how to do it. So, I called Geek Squad and heard how much it would cost. And then MAH talked to someone at work who said just hit F8 to get in safe mode. So, with that, I knew I could do it, so we put it in safe mode and I deleted Zone Alarm, and we're back.

But for all of Friday I was off-line. Kind of relaxing, actually. I polished some silver, cleaned up the house, exercised, made some tomato sauce. But as can tell, no work was done on the book.

Saturday was a gorgeous day, so we walked down to Octubabest--one of the sidewalk festival things they have here in the Boro. This took up basically the whole afternoon--we entered raffles (which we didn't win), bought some gourmet dog treats, cheese, soap, and some soup to benefit a soup kitchen. Oh, and funnel cake. (Jealous, Bobby?) It was nice time.

After eating our soup (yummy), we settled in to watch "The Highlander"--one of our Netflix movies. Now, MAH and I were both under the impression that this was actually a decent, maybe even a good, movie. Boy, were we wrong. In our opinions, this movie has no redeeming qualities. An interesting germ of a story buried in a terribly written, directed, and acted movie. With a soundtrack by Queen. And bad action scenes. I wanted to quit watching at many points, but MAH said we had to see it through. Bad, just bad.

I just got a a friend request on Facebook from someone I knew in college--one of those people I hadn't really thought about in, oh, what, fifteen years? He was a friend, so I accepted. Then I went back and looked through my people on Facebook from my class (again, I had done it a while back), and again, wow. All those people who were once such a big part of your life--the old boyfriends, the people who you had petty little fights with, the people you thought were so cool, all there. You look at a person's name (and sometimes picture) and all these memories come flooding back. It's very odd. I sent a couple of friend requests, but not a lot. I'm a cautious person.

Oh, so, yes, today we finally bought a wireless router and installed it. That had been on the "to-do" list for a while, but I told MAH if he wanted me to write this book I needed to be able to move around the house and not sit in the same chair for eight hours a day. I think he wants it so that we don't have to take turns on the computer. Easy installation. Slow day here--MAH made eggplant parmesean with our weekly CSA eggplant. Now we're watching the Eagles game on Tivo and waiting for the Phillies game. Maybe this wifi thing will mean an increasing in blogging (here), but just please, keep me away from Twitter or I'll never get anything done!