It booted fine for me, but IT sent it out since the keyboard was so messed up and they declared it a total loss.

WTH? Keyboards on most laptops are replaceable by the average howler monkey.

It was a strange tableau looking at my mother and her 4 brothers interact after all that time. Being of Irish descent it involved a lot of drink and getting "things off their chests".

I can imagine. You could write a play.

Quester: so sorry about your Uncle. Congrats to Niece on producing Amelia Jayne.

Laga: May your best friend's Mother's chest pains turn out to be nothing, or something easily fixed without long term consequences.

Much ~ma for your friend's mom, and for her doctors, that they quickly find out precisely what is wrong, and offer the best treatment.

Health~ma to Laga's friend's mother.

Thanks for the ~ma. It's not a heart attack. No other news yet.

Minnesota: Snow's gone by June...mostly.

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Hil, I'd love to give you a hand if you'd want someone to email in modern Hebrew with. I've been doing so when I studied French with a native speaking friend, and it helped a lot.

Thanks, but I'm not sure that I'm at the point where I could really write more than a sentence or two. Also, I don't know how to email with the Hebrew alphabet.

Right now, I'm coming in on three hours trying to get my MacBook to even start up. I'm posting from my little netbook that I usually just use when I need to travel light. The MacBook just goes to a gray screen when I try to start up. I've been going through the things suggested on the Apple support website, and none of them work. I've just got one more thing to try before I get to the one where it recommends taking the computer to an Apple Store and having the Genius Bar people do it, and the nearest Apple Store is in Lancaster, which is a few hours away.

Argh. It started up from the installation disk, and I ran the disk repair utilities, and tried to start it up normally again, which didn't work, and so I tried to start up from the installation disk again, and now that won't work either. I think this requires a Genius Bar visit. I really don't feel like driving to Lancaster just to go to the Apple Store. I guess I can do some Amish touristy stuff or something, too.

Stopping by for a boohoo.

I am so uncomfortable.

I've had a fever for the last couple of days. Achy and tiring, but no other symptoms. Curses. Completely screwed the grand get-it-done weekend I had planned.

I was actually in bed for 12 hours last night! Not asleep the whole time, but disinterested in doing anything else.

I'm wanting to think it is an allergy thing. weather dot com tells me that grass pollen has been high and going to get worse over the next couple of days. WOE. I'm not an allergy having person! Or was not.

My one shimmering hope is that the grass pollen is moderate and going to go down tomorrow. PLEASE let it be that. I really, truly want to feel better now.

I took an Alleve a bit ago to reduce the fever. The fever went UP. How is that possible?

Is there anything else I could take?

I'm not sneezing (more than twice a day), do not have a sore throat, or itchy eyes. Just a fever.

Bother.