It's June, I've been waiting for this month to arrive for a while. Not only had the weather not cooperated with what month it is "supposed" to be, but it's the month in which SUMMER exists! I might have some other reasons, but that's ok.
My parents came down over memorial day weekend, I worked the actual weekend, but had mon/tues off. We planted flowers, and boy does my deck look good! My mom worked on a quilt when I was busy, she needed to get it done. I also did help, we had quite the little system working. We went to dinner at one of my favorite newer places....Genghis Grill which is a mongolian grill. I love it! So much food, I can have a meal and lunch then next day! Great! I did seem like I was gone most of the time they were here though, which made me sad, because I do have a great time with them. Maybe they'll come back in a couple weeks. Who knows.
On Tuesday after memorial day, the in home service repair guy called from Dell and came to set up my computer. I basically have a new computer inside the old shell. I have a new screen, hard drive, memory, fan, heat sink, ac adapter, ac cord, video card. Hopefully it will finally work like I want it TO! So far so good, but I've spent the majority of the time on it this last week setting it back up, reinstalling all the programs I had. Today I succeeded in redownloading LYX and the SSH and Xwindow's so that I can work on my journal, which is of utmost importance. I have a deadline and I need to alot time for problems and everything. No I don't have a timeline imposed by anyone that is part of the project...just that in order for me to access NC State computers I have to be a non-pay employee which I can only do for 2 years, I have till may 1st next year until they pull the plug on my access to the computers, so I need to have it done by then...So I need to alot time for it to be edited, reworked, edited and back and forth till it's submitted and then back again to please the reviewers and make a better paper...and submit officially by may 1st...If Adam can do it! I can too! So that's my thing right now. It's back up and working, now to edit figures. Oh there is a slight problem there too I guess...(I forgot this not so small problem) I have a student version of Adobe creative suite, and since my computer's crashed twice and I've put in new hardware...I haven't been able to deactivate the licenses of the software before the hard drive got scrubbed. Now I had 2 licenses and they are used and I now have 30 days to get it figured out or buy it again or something. NOT OK! I have a case # with Adobe, so hopefully they will get back to me soon, or else I'll be on the phone with them sometime soon! I have the receipts and serial number, but cannot activate it. Not fair. I need Illustrator! Oh well, life goes on and it will work out.
Well I'm off to do some more things around the apt, before I have to go to work early in the morning, it's no 6am...but 8 will be early too.
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