Another One Bites the Dust

Another weekend that is! Why do these slow-paced days of relative leisure go by so much faster than their job-consumed counterparts? I caught up on the laundry and did some blog reading but aside from that I didn’t get much done beyond sleeping and eating. Somehow I’m still tired and not even remotely looking forward to returning to work tomorrow.

Our office finally made the leap to the new software that has been hovering over our heads for the last year. We were locked out of the system for an afternoon while changes were made behind the scenes and not allowed to do anything the next day until we could be taught how to use the program correctly. We spent all day Thursday in a meeting with 4 of us going over the details of how to enter an application. I knew it was going to be bad when it took all 4 of us all day to do something which used to take me 10 minutes! On Friday I was set free to go ahead and start on my piled up work. I did better than one 8 hour application but not by much. It’s horrendous! I kind of doubt that I’m going to find much free time anytime soon!

I have pretty much decided that I am going to just stay off scales until I have to face them in the doctor’s office. I was tempted this morning … 2 weeks since New Years Day … but the scales weren’t where I expected them to be. They turned up later but I took it as a sign that I’m supposed to stay off them. Be that as it may … I have seen some signs that I am losing weight. My clothes are fitting a little more loosely, the steering wheel is a bit further from my tummy, and when I had to go into that all day meeting in my bosses office … I fit in a chair that last time I had to perch on the edge of. Little miracles but I’ll take them!

My computer could use a miracle of its own … and Josiah went out-of-town for the weekend. First it was having the issue where it kept turning itself off and losing it’s connection with the monitor. Then one day last week it lost the keyboard. Rebooting seemed to fix it. But then it turned itself off in the middle of the night. I tried to start it back up and it automatically went to an option that asks if I want to restore it to a previous point. The problem was that I needed to choose an option with the keyboard. And it has lost the keyboard again.  And then … to make matters worse … it lost the monitor again. Now what in the world am I supposed to do with a computer with no keyboard and no monitor. It’s about as useful as a brick! But far more annoying! Using the laptop at the moment but unfortunately it doesn’t have the Quicken records on it that I need to make invoices for Bert. My bad. If we bring it back to life I will definitely back it up and make sure that everything on there that I need is on here too! And if I had the extra cash I would go buy a replacement just to be rid of the frustration!

Josiah arrived home shortly before 9:00 and fixed my errant computer. Memory error. If it misbehaves again we may have to replace the memory but better that than the whole machine!