August 2, 2004

• It’s a miracle!
  I can blog.

  This morning I awakened to the sound of Doug’s laughter.  No
  problem, I’d been in bed about ten hours–hadn’t slept all that time,
  but I got enough shuteye, more than I’ve been getting most nights
  lately.

  What a change from yesterday, when he was scowling, snarling, and
  killing pedestrians on the PS2!  He was on the couch, looking at
  the PS2 monitor, but I could tell from the fact that he didn’t have the
  controller in his hands that he was using the PlayStation as a DVD
  player.  I asked him,

  “What are you watching?”

  “Laurel and Hardy, Flying Deuces.”  *laugh*

  The computer was on.  I looked at the monitor, did a double take, and stepped closer.

  “What did you do to the computer?”

  “I fixed it.”

  “How?”

  “Took out the video card.”  *giggle* (still watching Flying Deuces)

  I checked for comments here and on Greyfox’s “gettin’ better” blog, did
  my morning ablutions, and got a muffin and cup of tea to get my blood
  sugar up.  (notice the order in which I take care of
  business)  By that time Laurel and Hardy were done and Bob Hope,
  Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour were on the Road to Bali. 

  I told Doug to take off his headphones and turn on the speakers so I
  could hear, too.  (Funny, I never noticed before that la Lamour
  wore a corset… but back then even my mother wore a girdle.  She
  got me a panty girdle not long after I talked her into getting me a
  “training bra”, and made me wear it.  Heaven forfend that my
  natural shape should show!  And bras back then were circular
  stitched, shaped like nose-cones–did you ever wonder WHY
  women took such joy from burning them?  It’s odd, now that most of
  us let it all hang out and jiggle, to recall a time when that was infra
  dig for most women, and a few men.

  Enough of that little jog down memory lane.  Back to the future… uuuh, present.

  During one of the gratuitious musical interludes in the comedy movie,
  Doug explained that the operation hadn’t been so simple as just
  unplugging the malfunctioning video card.  After he tried that,
  the comp didn’t work at all and he had to plug it back in and do some
  hocus pocus he only referred to but did not explain.  He did say
  that they make it really easy to install these upgrades, but removing
  them is another story.  He also said something that indicated some
  gratitude to his ancestors (that’s me, in part) for his native
  intelligence.  I’ll second that gratitude.
  
  This video display is taking some getting used to.  It’s odd, we
  both agree *more laughter* not having all that wavy-line-movement on
  the screen.  What’s great is getting all the way through this
  entry with no freeze/crash action.  I can get used to it.

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