Many blue screens, two reinstallations of Windows XP Professional, another blue screen and driver updates later, I have my computer working again. It has been one HELL of a weekend for me and my Dell Inspiron 600m. I spent about 4 hours total chatting with a Dell representative. The first reinstallation wasn’t a completely clean reinstall, so we had to start over. Then this morning, I received the exact blue error screen that I was receiving in the very beginning, when this entire problem began. After all that, it seems that the only thing that needed to be done was update the drivers (which I could’ve done on my own). After researching this problem, I was convinced it had something to do with the wireless card on my laptop; sure enough, it was. Too bad it took four Dell people to finally pinpoint the problem (despite me asking about the wireless card drivers in the very beginning). Anyway, I’m just glad everything is back to normal. It’s nice to have a fresh clean slate of a computer to work with, too! I have everything working and looking the way that I want.
So, is this tropical storm going to affect my first week of my senior year in college? I hope not. I’ve had enough of a break. I’m ready to go back to school and focus on something. Four hours of work a day isn’t enough to keep me busy. I’ve decided to drop my ASL 3 class; as badly as I want to take the class, I feel like 16 credits (one of which is Business Finance - one of the hardest classes to take at UF) is too much. I need all the other classes for my major or minor, so ASL 3 is really the only one that I can drop. I can always take it in the spring, though (when all my other ASL friends are taking it). Tom and I are keeping an eye on this storm and if need be, we’ll go home to help our parents prepare. If not, we’ll just make sure we have gas in the cars and cash and we’ll be set here in our apartment.
I made the BEST spaghetti sauce over the weekend. I used a jar of spaghetti sauce that I bought from the store and added to it - ground beef, chopped onion, minced garlic, baby portabello mushrooms, spinach, italian seasoning and pepper. It turned out really nicely and we had enough for leftovers. I ended up having an old friend over for dinner last night and that’s what we had (along with a salad and homemade garlic bread). It was a yummy dinner!
Hunter is growing so much. I really love having him despite how difficult he can be to control sometimes. We took a long walk earlier and he did so great; didn’t pull on the leash and wear himself out, didn’t freak out at cars, and best of all, didn’t stop completely when he got afraid of random noises. Now that Tom is working in the office full time again (he was out doing field work the last couple weeks), we’re getting serious about looking into puppy classes. Tom will do that (since I have school and work to worry about) and I am hoping it will really help him bond with Hunter. Hunter listens to me a little better than he listens to Tom, and I think it’s because Tom is at work and I spend more time at home with him. Speaking of Hunter, I really need to post some new pictures of him!
My list of things to get done today is waiting for me, so I better end this right here. I hope you all have a wonderful week! :)