Better... and Not

The dry maelstrom that was our weather yesterday has moved to the east, south, or  some other point on the compass, thank The Deity At Hand.  Yesterday's weather was SO miserable we canceled Happy Hour altogether, foregoing the indoor version, even.  Perhaps we were apprehensive about combining our moderate intake of alcohol with El Casa Móvil De Pennington's exaggerated to and fro rocking motion.  Whatever the case, it was prolly good thinking on my part.

This morning we're experiencing relative calm... which is to say 12 mph winds, with gusts just below 20 mph.  Our skies are bright blue today, without the dirty brown/tan hue that comes with all that damned airborne dust.  We can live with that.  We also have to do some major cleaning... once the caffeine has been processed... because dust never sleeps (with apologies to Neil).

We have another major task today.  Our computer arrived back from The Computer Hospital yesterday afternoon, along with a letter from the Computer Doctor(s) informing us that the factory OS image had been successfully installed, the BIOS upgraded and the system had been "thoroughly tested with no issues."  So why do I feel decidedly uneasy?  Beside the point, I suppose.

So.  I unpacked the box yesterday afternoon and that's as far as I got.  The 'puter and I sat there... she on the floor, me in my chair... staring at each other for the better part of an hour while I attempted to marshal the resolve to break down the old box and start on the new... i.e., attach the cables, hook up the peripherals, install applications, and restore files from the backup hard drive.  Said resolve did NOT appear when summoned.  We're hoping for a better result today, once we're fully caffeinated and the dust has been removed from our working surfaces.  While this isn't a task comparable to cleaning the Augean stables it's pretty damned close.  Relatively speaking.