Hmph...

I think I may end up going back to using IE - Firefox is being weird at me.

ETA: Got an update for Firefox - it's fixed the problem.

Honey, I'm Hoooome!

Well, anyone miss me?

First off, Windows stuffed up on me. That's what's kept me offline.

Two, I have chapter and verse to tell about: Hospital, Christmas, post christmas, and the computer.

Hospital
Hospital went fine, except when I got taken off the automatic painkiller infusion on the drip - that was hell. I also got a chest infection that wasn't all that pleasent because, hello, coughing with a stomach injury? Painful!

I didn't really have any other problems until I got out of hospital and the healing wound split in a couple of places and leaked like a right royal bugger. That still hasn't totally healed but the leakage at least has slowed down a lot.

I not eating much, which, mind you was the point of the opperation, but anyway, a big meal is now two sushi rolls. I'm also still on soft food and should stay on it until my appointment next week in the hospital.
I have had some problems with the eating - mainly insidents where I haven't chewed everything up enough and it's got stuck in my esophagus and I've vomited it back up. That hurts BTW, you wouldn't believe how much vomiting can hurt until you''ve been through stomach surgery. I consider it one of the most violent bodily reactions, ever.

Christmas And Post-Christmas
Xmas was quiet, it usually is for us. Present haul included bowls (from Castle Hampers), a lamp (well it's something I've been intending on getting, a new desk lamp), Pink's Funhouse album and a DVD of her concert at Wembley Stadium for the I'm Not Dead Tour, Masterpiece Skywarp, Voyager Grindor (aka Blackout), Deluxe Scorponok, Sentinel Prime (TFA), Patrol Barricade (TF1 toy I found lurking at Toyworld).

I bought agiftedmind a quite sizable gift - The Sims 3 and World Adventures.

Athe same time I laybuyed 'Cade's gift, I also found a twelve pack of minicons and a TFA Blurr. I got them off laybuy after xmas. Unicron is loving having more minicons, and Blurr has revealed a fondness for leashing mechs with a ribbon noose. He wants to noose 'Cade's Shockwave, but he's settled for the resident Elite Bee.

I currently have on laybuy, due to what I suspect was a clearing out of storage, the Fallen (finally!), TFA Starscream, Swerve (a twin for Silversides) and RotF Optimus Prime. And I forgot to ask Mum to drop around and put money on them *facepalm*.

Also, thanks to Mum cleaning my room while I was in hospital, Soundclaw (RotF Soundwave) has his missile back.

'Cade came round for New Years and we watched the broadcast of the Sydney fireworks. She loves Edenvale wine, which is non-alcholic but tastes like alcoholic wine. I hate it, but I'm a total teatotaller, so I never had reason to develop a taste.

She was around again yesterday, which helped some with my sans-computer stir craziness.

And on that...

The Computer
The compy went down about New Years Eve. I know this because I found it out while 'Cade was over. It apparently was a problem with a Windows file getting corrupted - a file needed to start Windows up.

Because I'd preveiously lost my XP disc to heat damage, I borrowed 'Cade's disc, hoping to get it done with that, but I'm hardly an expert when it comes to compy stuff and somehow ended up with two lots of Windows installed, one that worked but had nothing on it, and one that didn't work but probably had everything on it. Oh, the working copy at least gave me access to files, like the My Documents folder and my massive folder of stuff on the Vector Prime drive so I could do backups of all that, but none of the programs showed up and I couldn't get to my current Firefox bookmarks. As it is, I ended up deciding to take it in to the shop, since they'd know their way around a system better and found out that it was a good thing I hadn't been able to activate the second installation of XP, as it would have invalidated 'Cade's. I also ended up having Window 7 installed sooner than later.

I still lost the most recent bookmarks, but I have an old save that has the basics on it ('Cade, I do have Dust), and I'm going to have to install several programs again, including the Sims 3. I don't think I'll instal Office though, because I have plans now to get a more recent version than the one I have been using since I got the compy (said version is Office 2000, Proffessional - I'm thinking of geting 2007, Home and Office, and buying an independant copy of Publisher to go with it).

I probably still need more RAM to run Win7 really well, but I have enough to run it okay until I can get the $500 advance on my pension.


Now I should get some copy of Y!M installed again and check my email. I bet my box has a huge drift of mail in it.