Saturday, March 7, 2009
Woke around 3 AM, couldn't sleep, accidentally had left the heater running too hot before I went to bed, turned off the heater, opened the window to cool off the room. The iMac freaked out—something to do with the screen saver kicking in but I hadn't changed settings and this never happened before. I took a video of the problem, restarted. All is well. Documents in InDesign in Windows were opening unusually slowly, so I defragged and ran a disk check in Windows Vista. Stretches. Weight training: kneeling kickback. Usual oatmeal breakfast. Cut my hair, showered. Prepared new tip cards for Dianne. My USB drive accidentally got erased a few days ago. VMware Fusion has no longer been detecting USB drives properly in the past few months and I have not had time to troubleshoot it. The USB drive got erased somehow when I left it plugged in and restarted Vista. Vista hung during restart like it sometimes does, and when I next opened the USB drive it said that it needed to be formatted. On the USB drive I store only data that already exists at home or work, so there was no data loss, but I realized now I need to have some kind of synch folders set up for my folder of security tools, so I began setting that up. Went to JCB's, helped him fix his computer—we had to clean reinstall XP, and the computer was having trouble getting bootstrapped with the right network and graphics card drivers. Did I say I would never buy another Dell monitor again? The things are inexpensive and good quality, but I could not get XP to recognize the drivers no matter what I tried. Yeesh. Brunch at Home Restaurant. Met Patrick at a coffee shop where I had a nonfat almond latte. We had dinner at Thai Chef, then rented a film from Superstar Video.