One long day...

I got up at my usual early hour and put the finishing touches on two jobs and sent them out the wire by 8 am. Then I sat down to what turned out to be day doing some surprisingly large amount of work, including a new 1,400-source-word job that came in today for tomorrow morning.

There's still work left on the plate for tomorrow, and if just enough work comes in for Thursday to allow me to take Friday off, I won't complain much.

* * *I have taken to eating what breakfast I do eat on the verandah, even if said repast consists of only a cup of coffee. Sadly, it's a habit I've never quite gotten into, and based on the lift I get when I do spend those few minutes looking at the mountains in the morning, there is the suggestion that I've wasted quite a number of mornings—especially when the weather is nice—inside staring at furniture, or worse, at a computer screen.

And speaking of breakfast on the verandah, it was cold enough this morning to make me think seriously of going inside to break out a sweater. It's September, after all, and soon, there will be snow on the ground.

* * *Yesterday, it was starting to look as if I was not going to be able to fire up my virtual Windows 2000 machine inside of VMWare, which would made me an unhappy camper because my invoicing program—code so old it won't run in Windows 7—runs only on that machine.

I was on the verge of thinking I'd have to go through the rigamarole of reinstalling my old Windows 2000 system in VMWare and again calling the software publisher for an activation key (and listen to a pitch to upgrade to the latest and greatest bloatware version of their lock-you-in-forever accounting software, which I do not wish to do). But before I undertook that course, I turned to the Internet, and as usual, the Internet came to my rescue.

I entered text from the error message shown to me by VMWare and sought to see what light Google could shed. This led me to a post that suggested I had allocated too much memory for the virtual machine (and truly, having gained a bunch of extra disk real estate from the Great Hard Drive Upgrade of 2011, I had upped the VM's memory from 256 MB all the way to 512 MB). After restoring the memory figure back to its previous value, the virtual machine started without complaint. (Hooray!)

* * *In other news, I've found it difficult to watch anything on the tube of late. It seems half of the channels offered via satellite are offering to sell me gems, coins, exercise programs, brassieres for "perkier boobs," medications for prostate health, and on and on. The movie channels seem to do nothing but repeat the same tired old fare (recently, it seems Avatar keeps popping up on the schedule about as regularly as acne among adolescents).

I should take this opportunity to do something creative, but by the time evening rolls around, I really don't feel like doing anything at all.

Ah, well... thing's will improve. I'm sure of it.

Cheers...