so far so good on my list

while it wasn't officially on my blog list, its been on my "list" of things to do for a while, fix my parents crappy computer.. on thursday when everyone was over we tried to get my laptop to print to my parents printer thru the wireless router. i had tried doing this in the past and had no luck. b*ll and pete tried and told em that the machine was f'd. taking b*ll's advice i ran a check on it to see if the hard drive was damaged. it wasn't. the next thing he advised was to wipe it clean and reinstall everything..

so that is what i spent about 6 hours of my night last night doing, and another 3 hours this morning. i thought i had everything... but come to find out i am missing their favorites.. (but i did grab their cookies) and it looks like i didn't get the songs in their ipod library, but i probably have them on disc somewhere anyway.. i was able to preserve all their emails, their address book and their settings for their email. i also got everything on their desktop. the computer is running soooo much faster now. its still not as fast as mine i don't think, but its an enormous improvement...

while office was installing on their machine, i decided to mow the lawn, the breeze is blowing so perfectly here and the sun is shining. so i go out and try to remember the 37 different steps to mowing the lawn... i get a little tripped up as to how to attach the lawn bag. i figure that the loop goes in the metal arm on the top, and the hard plastic part somehow fits over the part the grass comes out of. so i jam it on there and jump thru all the hoops to get it running.. i am about 10 feet into the lawn and the bag comes off the bottom. shit, i don't know how to stop the mower... finally i realize that if you let the velcro loose, the handle stops being pressed and the mower shuts off. so i reach down and jam the plastic part back on the metal part, start the mower back up. 2 feet, the bag falls off again. i shut off and reattach the damn bag like 4 times before i decide i am doing something really wrong for this bag not to stay on.. so i call mom, dad answers, hes no help. i decide to download and install pdf reader and the google toolbar for the new computer instead.

i finally decided that mowing the lawn is more important then getting that lawn bag attached, so i just mowed and let the grass get all over the yard and the neighbors driveway. :) maybe i should re-think my home owning desires, or audition potential husbands on their lawn-mowing skillz, or hire cath to do it. i want to have a pool though anyway, so that will take a significant chunk of yard out of the back.