Once a friend described me as the “Master of the Laze.” The other day I found myself wanting a laptop computer. Why? Because I was on the couch and my computer was not. I didn’t want to have to get up off the couch. It’s that same kind of lazy that makes me think I will never, ever manage to have a worthwhile blog. My old blog was “semi worthwhile.” For this one, I think I will aim for “occasionally semi worthwhile.” Here’s to hoping I find time and motivation to post, and wits enough to avoid foolishness.

I’ve been a PC user from the get go: from my first p100 to my two celeron systems, to my amd, to my latest intel dual core. I’ve always had “minor” issues with windows operating systems. The most egregious of which was turning my “media” folder into an OS-defined “media” folder and thus disabling my ability to sort by “last modified” and then re-defaulting these folders to their “media folder” settings despite my attempts to reset them to regular folders (finally resulting in me having to overwrite the registry “folder sniffer” settings).

Recently I installed vista and it has destroyed me. I am often unable to make basic changes because Vista is trying to “protect” me. I’ve done all I can to get rid of these silly protections, but that just makes Vista even more upset with me. Recently I lost all my Office shortcuts in my start menu (the shortcuts exist, they just don’t point to anything). Trying to repair, uninstall, or reinstall office is, without fail, returning an error. Trying to diagnose office tells me I can’t diagnose without the event log running. Trying to run the event log tells me “the instance name passed was not recognized as valid by a wmi data provider,” which means nothing to me.

You’ve finally done it, Vista. You’ve finally killed me. I’m trying drastic solutions now in an attempt to do the most basic of tasks, and it’s exactly as retarded as those Mac commercials make it seem.

Goodness. Here I am working crunchy hours and what is happening on the outside? Team Fortress 2 beta released, there are pre-order deals for Hellgate: London that allow entrance into an early beta there, and I’m aggressively awaiting a computer I ordered to be shipped out. This convergence of time-wasting activities (”aggressively waiting” for a computer is most certainly a huge time sink) is unfortunate for me, he who is stuck at work.

On the plus side, I’ve blogged for longer than my previous blog.