Catchin’ up … again

Well, I THINK I’m OK … this is a new machine my kid built for me. He put new guts in my ancient box (one I had given to him about 20 years ago, when I switched to something else). It was funny to get it back. I reckon some boxes are made protean enough that you can just switch motherboards in and out without too much sweat. I’ve got a dual-core chip in it, and the motherboard will accept up to an 8-core, if I want to melt the internet. And it will hold up to 8 Gig of RAM, so I can work on some heavier stuff that needs lots of processing power, like some of the format conversions that I like to do, and things like that.
It needs lots of tuning up … I’m trying to figure out how Windows 7, 64-bit works, and getting the browsers fixed up so they work the way I want them to … or work at all, for that matter. I’m having lots of trouble with things hanging in mid-operation, mass invasions by popups and unwanted redirects, and outright refusals to obey orders. IE seems the best at most things, but Firefox is a close second … Opera won’t work at all. That last doesn’t surprise me much … it was getting that way, anyway.
I haven’t been doing much photography … we’ve had lots of visually uninteresting weather, and There’s been a lot of need for me to stay close to home. Taking care of a bipolar is rather a full-time job. She just went through a rather extended period of irrationality, but seems to be herself again, the past couple of days. Now she won’t believe me when I tell her what she did. And I sprung my back trying to get her picked up off the floor, so I’m taking dope and being VERY careful what I do and how I do it. It’ll fix itself, but it’s something of a trial. The real kicker is that she can’t remember me doing it, so she keeps asking me why I’m acting like a cripple. When I tell her, she doesn’t believe me.
Anyway, my troubles aren’t all that interesting … I’ll get some photos fixed up and posted in the next couple of days.
Glad to be back; I’ve missed you all, and this place.
Cheers, all!