alexpgp | Waiting for a shoe to drop...

...or for the pudding to set.

Earlier in the day, I installed the 120-MB hard drive in what used to be the store computer, but the system hung when doing its POST. A little research shows that the BIOS is too old for such a high capacity drive, and since I plan on installing Red Hat 8.0 on the machine, the software that came with the drive to enable it to be used on Windows systems with antiquated BIOS settings is of no help.

I was referred to a site that took the BIOS identification code and promised to get back to me within a day or two regarding an upgrade. No price was posted on the site, so I'm figuring it's more than $30, but less than $100. We'll see.

My order of a CD and DVD drive for the two Dells I bought two years ago is still languishing in Dell. They've committed to a January 7 ship date, with one day service, but this order is taking significantly longer to process than the original order. The good news is that the Airborne Express call tags arrived at the store, so I ought to be able to send the wrong hardware back tomorrow.

Drew dropped Huntur over earlier in the evening, to allow him some time with Shannon. We had a great time. One of Huntur's favorite pastimes now is to have me stand her on the counter in the corner of the kitchen, just next to a lazy susan spice rack, at which point she will pick bottles and hand them to me to unscrew so we can both smell them. Surprisingly, I find I have infinite patience with this procedure.

I decided to make some "instant" pudding, but used soy milk instead of the Real Thing. That's probably why the pudding didn't harden within the advertised 5-minute period. I sneaked a taste of the liquid pudding, and it's perfectly good vanilla, but even after refrigerating it for a couple of hours, now, it's more of a milkshake than a pudding.

Oh, well. Live and learn.

I'm off to see Galina, sip some Korbels champagne, and rub a pair of feet.

Cheers...