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So today we’re going to a get-together at Chili’s in Burlington at 2:00, for which we are getting ready now, followed by a stop at the giant Barnes & Noble in Burlington, which shares a parking lot with Chili’s, to use our $75 of Christmas gift cards finally.  I got up just before 7:00 this morning and instead of blogging I did still more work.  Tonight I’ll try to help with this week’s edition of CotC, which I am theoretically co-hosting.

Tomorrow we’ll probably go to my grandmother’s, since it is the Sunday closest to my and my mother’s birthday Monday.  Let us eat cake.  I may or may not try to fit in some work at the office.  Monday or Tuesday I have to return a computer to Wilmington.  I also should try to do billing this weekend so I can rescue cash flow.

Meanwhile, the newphew’s computer we rebuilt yesterday is balking about having an OS reinstalled.  I forget what AMD it was before, but it was low end at the time, in an Epox motherboard.  Since the power supply fried the motherboard, we got an AsRock combo board that takes either of two CPU types, a Sempron 3300, and 512 MB of 400 MHz RAM.  I had kicked in a hard drive, external bay (which died), power supply, and the RAM, plus a special 2 hour round trip to get parts, labor and expertise helping, and hours of time in which billable work could have been done instead, in return for help he’s been giving me (which ironically his computer problems took an unexpected bite out of, setting me back, but there’ll be more for him to do coming up).  I also built the original computer.  At the time I had intended to give each niece and nephew a computer around the time they turned 14, but after the first two I stopped being able to afford it.  There’s a bit of parental balkage at paying for the CPU and motherboard, which I was hoping to turn over immediately because my cash flow is dry.  It beats buying a new computer, or having to pay someone to fix it.  Anyway, the machine acting up got out of hand enough that I will need to commune with it again, and make certain no parts are bad.  I seriously doubt it, but at least I’m already planning one return.

Without my nephew’s computer, billing and other unbillable work to keep things rolling, and the run to return the computer with the bad drive, I am looking at enough billable work, if nothing new comes up and I don’t start the next major project that is jumping up and shouting “me, me!  Look at me!” before I am done, I have an easy seven consecutive days of work lined up neatly if I only do eight hours of it each day.  Deb’s going to get really used to having me out of the house day after day.

So, like, see you now and then in this space.  Sometimes.  Maybe.

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