Wednesday, January 17, 2001
10:53 a.m. Mornings are better. Mornings are the best. I
love the morning ... love, love, love the morning. I always
get the big ideas, the enthusiasm to start and to finish, to
clean things up, and to make sense out of all the little
troubles and problems that I abandoned the night before.
This morning? I'm going to hunt up the original scanner
software so I can (try to) reinstall my drivers. That should
solve one of the problems of this artwork dearth here at
perforatedlines.com. It shouldn't be too hard to find the
original floppies, I hope. I've been working on organizing
them ...
... which brings up the next stumbling block I face each
evening: no new photos. The batteries are shot, maybe.
Maybe. Because I can't really believe that a battery is out
of "juice" just because the camera won't work, I have the
beginnings of a nut-case tendency to save all the old
batteries.
I know it looks bad, but I have a drawer-full of them and
it's not a very big leap from batteries to stacks of
newspaper and cleaned out tin cans to the ceiling. But -- a
"dead" battery seems to weigh the same in the hand as a new
one, so if it's really juice in there, well -- it should
weigh less when it's empty, right?
Plus, I think if they roll around a bit as I open and
close the drawer, they might want to rethink their status
and let me take a few more photos. The worse this is -- this
will probably work, thus prolonging my insanity.
Next -- those envelopes that come in the mail with bills:
save them or toss them? They really pile up, and I have a
lot of stickers that I could put over the offending address
... and thus maybe save -- what? $1.50 a year? Still,
envelopes are a hard item for me to throw away. They are
just too cute and efficient and neat.
OK -- I just tried the camera and it works! I took a
photo of the batteries and a photo of the floppy disks.
Haha! Now all I have to do is find the drivers for the
camera setup and try to suck those photos out and into my
machine and I will have two new images to display for
today.
All brought to you courtesy of the morning and the bright
sunshine and the unbounding leap of faith that it
inspires.
12:21 a.m. As you can
clearly see, the camera worked! And I was able to get the
camera drivers to move those photos onto the system --
another small piece of the puzzle has been tamped into
place. Last, but not least, I was even able to get one of my
printers to work today -- only two more to go, plus the
scanner, which remains stubborn.
I'm definitely going to write in the daytime again, if I
possibly can. I had a brain this morning and all I have on
top of my eyes tonight is a pile of hair. Not a thought in
sight -- so I'll pick up the thread tomorrow.
Manyanna. Poor Chiquita Banana! Is there no company
that's safe?
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