My laptop is sick.  My laptop is sick in a let’s-reinstall-Windows kind of way.  Also, to my surprise, the XP “reinstall” CD left me with a version of Windows that looks utterly unlike what was imaged on the hard drive when I first bought my laptop.  If you are in the Seattle area and love nothing more than playing with operating systems and device drivers, drop me a line.

(Which sort of reminds me of why I’m relieved not to be a computer programmer anymore.  You quickly get tired of, “Oh, you’re a computer programmer?  Perfect…you can tell me how to fix my modem/get rid of these pop-ups/get Windows to recognize my scanner/et cetera.”  Um, no.  No, I probably can’t.  This is worse than asking a doctor at a party why your feet hurt.  This is like asking a dentist at a party why your feet hurt.)

Leaving for Portland in a few hours.  Oregonians, come by the Clackamas Town Center Barnes & Noble tonight at seven and say hi.