Shiny new computer

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Luckily, it is slow at work today, because I am getting a new computer this afternoon. I am fairly excited about this, because the one I'm typing on right now kind of sucks. It's been getting crankier and crankier for the last couple of months, but I knew the new one was coming reasonably soon, so as long as it kept going enough to get my work done, I decided it wasn't worth trying to fix it. I have spent the last couple of days cleaning out "My Documents" and things like that - all my work files are on the network, anyway, so it's just the junk that's there in the first place. But the junk tends to pile up after a couple of years. (I have been at my job for TEN YEARS, have I pointed that out? I'm getting a pin or something next month for having lasted it out. But anyway, luckily the computer is not quite that old.)

(They would do all the saving of My Documents and so forth for me if I let them, but I go all control-freak sometimes about things like this - I would rather be sure I know where my stuff is. Besides, the changeover will go faster if I do all that ahead of time.)


(Family stuff, etc., under the cut)

I haven't posted anything here in a while, have I? I can't say that anything too major is going on. My dad called me from Yellowstone last night, apparently mostly because he's pissed off at my sister. (And I can say with a fair amount of confidence that she is pissed off at him, too, which is presumably why she hasn't called him back, but I didn't tell him that.) He and Barbara have been to see my aunt - and my grandmother, although my grandmother is so far gone that she probably didn't know he was there - in Coeur d'Alene, and then they are doing some touristy things and then going back to Denver to visit some of Barbara's family.

My mother is doing ok - she has just finished another round of chemo and has been sort of groggy, but I guess if that's the worst thing the chemo does that's not so bad. (This kind of chemo is 5 days in a row, then the rest of the month off.) Her hair is finally starting to grow back - it fell out from the radiation, not the chemo, and that's been several months now so I was sort of starting to wonder if it was going to grow back in at all. Luckily I was worrying for nothing, looks like.

I got the, um, quilt-we-can't-talk-about-yet from Karen and I am working on the binding; it should be done in a couple of weeks. I had been toying with the idea of entering my leaf quilt in the International Quilt Festival in Houston, but it turns out that I already missed the deadline. That's a little bit of a relief because I'm kind of overloaded in the quilting department anyway right now. I can take my time finishing it now, and maybe I'll enter it next year!

(There are pictures of the quilt-we-can't-talk-about-yet on Flickr, in case I haven't said that previously; if you're haven't seen it and you're dying to, get a Flickr user name and tell me so I can friend you.)


(Has LJ been down or something? Or maybe it's just my computer being screwy again, because when I look at my friends page it says there aren't any entries since yesterday. Somehow I think that's highly unlikely.)