Yesterday was very, very frustrating, computer-wise. I spent most of the day and night working on the damned thing, only to have it crap out on me about 21:00.

I played more with it this morning before giving up on it and taking it back to the place that I bought it. The motherboard book said that it would go up to 400MH, but the chip that I bought was a 450, so the guy there called the techs at the company that made the motherboard and they gave him the settings to use. Unfortunately, the settings they gave him were for a 500MH chip, not a 450, and the board overheated and took the chip out. It took about two hours to find this out... there is another chip on order, but it won't get here until Monday.

So I came home and put the drive back in the 300 machine, and here I am.

Yesterday, after I'd written and posted, I went out to Best Buy to get a sound board and a small HD for the 300, since I was going to be putting the big drives in the 450. They had a WD 10.1 on sale, but they were out of them... but they had a Quantum that had been opened that they were selling for $50 off. This was just like the one that I'd bought last week, so I went ahead and got it.

I put it in the 300 machine, and I was putting together both machines at the same time. I had a lot of trouble with the new drive, whoever had tried to install it before had screwed it up royally... I didn't have $50 worth of trouble, though! I wound up using a 325MB drive that I had and putting the system on it, then transferring the system to the 10GB Quantum.

And I've kinda told about the problems with the new machine, I don't wanna talk about that any more.

Bad, bad news from the cardiologist today... he said that the only way my triglycerides could be that high is that I've been eating a lot of sweet stuff. And I confessed... I do eat a lot of sweet stuff. I love sweet stuff, especially chocolate... aznd I really overdo it, I know.

So... what the hell, I'm gonna try to start eating right. No, let me re-phrase that... I AM gonna start eating right. No more candy bars. None. No more chocolate cookies... I just bought a big sack yesterday, dammit, and I hadn't eaten them all yet.

It would probably be OK if I could just eat a couple, but no, I can't do that. All or nothing, I've been that way all of my life.

Well, now it's gonna be nothing.

I've never really seriously dieted... damn, I do hope that it's easier than quitting smoking... otherwise, I'm doomed. Well, I'm doomed anyway, we all are, but you know what I mean...

I can't get my mail program working, probably because part of it is on the HD that I didn't re-install on this machine. I think that I'll just do a temporary one until Monday, and leave all of the stuff on the server. Then I can get the whole pile.

Karen went over to Lawrence to pick up Brian, and she took Lacee and Drew with her. Drew stayed over here last night... he's getting to be quite the little kid. Karen will pick up Patrick on her way home, so for a while we'll have four kids running around. I'll have to hide...