Silverthorne

Well, I'm not sure what happened, but after three hours I turned the lappy on again, and this time it didn't have too much problem with letting me into email (although it tried to tell me I didn't have enough memory to run the office assistant, even though I'm still at 36% open room on the disk drive).

Ran disc clean and then defrag a few times in a row as suggested by a computer geek work friend, and now Hal seems to be running ok (even though I run all that stuff every weekend...). There hasn't been any problems since the clean up, and everything is running at the normal 'fast' speed, so I'm not sure what's up. I am wondering if I should take it in to Frys this weekend or something anyway for a diagnostic.

Anyway, so at least for now, it looks like the computer scare is over. We'll see what happens when I have to shut it down and take it home in an hour, I guess.

If anyone has any idea as to what may have happened, let me know.

So I'd been using IE7 for the past week because Firefox apparently randomly decided I didn't need to see site headers, Youtube videos, random icons and random pictures on things like breed-able pet sites (where seeing what the heck you're putting together is, you know, kinda important). I have no idea what caused it.

Every weekend though, I run a battery of about 6 different 'cleanup' programs, including defrag programs and the Powersuite (2009) series, which repairs bad links, gets rid of messed up files, etc. After today's run, I went ahead and checked the 'ol Firefox, not hoping for improvement (everything I'd tried, including deleting cookies, clearing all caches, etc, hadn't worked), and fully expecting to have to try and delete the whole program than reload it again to fix it.

Looks like weekly maintenance took care of it, though. so now I'm back on my preferred browser. This makes me very, very happy. :)

I've found a use for the post-it note function in my outlook program.

I now have about twenty idea notes for one of the several story ideas in my head.

It even has different color 'notes', and different ways to set up the screen where you can call the notes up.

And all without covering my home desk (or other surfaces for that matter) with little colored squares of (easy to lose) paper.

Which means less fuss, less stuff to travel with me in the bag, and easy organization. Next step is to see if I can access them with the word processor program so that I don't have to open my email when the laptop isn't connected to the net (Because those error messages when it tries to download new email from a connection that isn't there is downright annoying, thank you).

But, most important; I Gots Notes! Down In A Spot! Where I Can And Will Get To Them Easily.

Which means I will work more on that type of stuff rather than just drooling and staring at the pretty screen in between RP slumps. Now if only I could get re-attached to my art programs the same way, I'll really be rolling. ^^

By the way; does anyone else notice any 'comfort quirks' about their work? I mean like needing to sit in a certain chair, or using only certain supplies, or being comfortable enough to concentrate in specific ways before you can work?