Well we knew it was coming, but once again the cold of winter is descending on Chicago and once again I totally dressed wrong for it this morning! Though I was nearly as wrong as two young ladies I saw on Michigan during my very late lunch (more on that later). Anyway, they looked like Japanese tourist and one was dressed in a very short tan plaid skirt while the other had rather short capri style pants. Neither had a coat, just light sweaters. Just the sight of that made me quickly forget about my nearly frozen ungloved hands and the short sleeved shirt I was wearing under my leather jacket. As cold as I was, they were definitely colder (and hot too! š )
Now why was I out for a late late lunch at 3pm? Well blame it on Windows and stupidity. Never never start computer stuff just before lunch! I’d been trying to find updated drivers for my Dell docking stations without any luck. God, I hate looking for things on Dell’s web site! It is very painfully disorganized and very ugly. Well I didn’t find anything, so I tried installing the NT 4.0 era drivers on the XP box. Baddddd move! Worse move was uninstalling and then rebooting. Yep, dead Windows, couldn’t even run in safe mode. So I had to do a repair install and then SP2 all over again. It took a little over 2 hours which is actually not too bad in Windows world. Fortunately, I’d finished my most important work before that and had another computer I could work on. So on my left I reinstalled Windows and on my right I worked through a web based human subject certification exam I’m required to take each year. So my goof up didn’t really cost me much productivity. I’m pretty lucky that way.