Just a few minor annoyances to end an otherwise pretty good week:
One of the houses that we were going to look at this weekend, has been taken off the market. What sucks is that this one (at least from the outside) had the potential to be a front-runner for us, and the outside of the houses was one of the major things we had problems with in the first round of househunting. I don’t think the owners sold the house; it was a situation where some personal things wouldn’t allow them to keep it. Is it bad to hope that maybe whatever happened falls through again and we’ll get a chance to check it out?
I have a UPS package waiting at the apartment office. They are only open during the convenient hours of 8-6 M-F, which keeps either of us from really having a chance to stop in there. Luckily, I was able to work from home this afternoon, so I thought I’d stop by when I got home. Surprise! They closed at noon today. Nice. Dammit they suck. Or maybe I should just keep sending things to my work address. :-/
I’ve come to find out that I can’t search for files on my computer (Start Menu –>Search doesn’t work…nothing comes up) and IE7 won’t load any webpages. I normally use Firefox anyway, but it’s going to drive me nuts that somehow my own PC is busted. I want to blame the god-awful Comcast software they forced me to install to connect online, even though I uninstalled it. I have a sneaking suspicion that it was incompatible with IE7 and borked it. I have no idea when it would have stopped working, though. Same goes for the Windows Search function. I don’t use it that often, so I have no idea when that happened. Bah.
What prompted all of this is that I was going through our wedding CD that our photographers sent us (which is a completely different story to be told sometime later), and all the pictures are in separate folders. There’s no pattern for which pictures are in which folders, and the folders are just named with numbers. I wanted to copy them to have them all in one folder, and I planned on searching on the CD for images, selecting them from the results, and copying to the destination folder. Buuuuut, now I can’t be lazy and have to do it manually.
Screw it. This computer has been feeling slower lately anyhow. A new Ubuntu is coming out soon - maybe I’ll copy my important stuff, wipe it clean, and dive head first into Linux. I can’t do any real gaming or VS programming on this anymore anyway.
Otherwise, happy weekend to everyone!
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