Lady and I were having a discussion with Dude over dinner a week or so ago and he said something about one his friends having a girlfriend. So of course we followed up with "Do you have a girlfriend?" which was answered with many denials.
Our weekend of parties is now 3/4 done. Friday afternoon Dude had a birthday party at the climbing wall in the college gym. Saturday evening was Lady's staff Christmas party. We got a pair of travel coffee mugs which comes in handy since my old one finally kicked the bucket just last week. This afternoon the bank held the kids Christmas party at the bowling alley. Santa even showed up and bowled a few frames with the kids before handing out their goodies. Tomorrow after school there's one more birthday party for Dude.
You know it's bad when you can remember a Microsoft hotfix number by heart. I've been working on this for two days now. Plenty of Google searches and lots of fixes, none of which worked. I shan't list the pages I visited; Google can do that. But I did manage to fix it and have not found my fix anywhere so I'm posting it here in the hope that it helps.
I have an XP Home SP2 installation disk. I did a fresh install, then installed SP3 and then went to Windows Update. It found 3 that were required, Windows Installer, WGA validation and KB898461. 898461 would not install via update or when downloaded to the local machine.
I did a system restore back to factory fresh SP2 straight off the disk, but still no joy.
The fix was to uninstall Windows Uninstaller 3.1, then install KB898461 from the local machine. You'll find the uninstaller here:
C:\WINDOWS\$MSI31Uninstall_KB893803v2$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
Hope this helps someone some day. If it does, drop me a line. You'll find an email link in the footer of my website.
Winter is officially here and it's been really cold this week with overnight temperatures between -20C and -25C. On the first cold night I decided to see if the truck would start on it's own so I didn't plug it in overnight. I figured if it didn't start I would just take the car to work because it always starts no matter how cold it gets. In fact we've never plugged the car in overnight in the 6 years we've had it. That's a pretty good record.
I finally finished Peter Hamilton's Judas Unchained a few days ago. It's a pretty long book at 1008 pages but it took me a really long time due to other distractions. It's the sequel to Pandora's Star and they're both great reads if you looking for some large scale science fiction.
I did it though. I got out and moved for 20 minutes or so. I went back inside, swaddled myself in fleece and thick striped socks and laid back on the couch to watch re-runs of law & order (they are always on, that and golden girls but I dont watch them, really I dont, okay maybe once in a while...)
*I wasted several weeks when I should have been making soap for christmas. Now I am rushed, I have been making a batch a day to have them cured in time for christmas. In fact a couple wont be good until two days after christmas. Ooops. Now I cant lay my head on the couch and watch
I only have one more batch to go, mint will be made tomorrow. Then I can get all those pots and pans and molds and cooler and oils in the garage again. They are crowding my kitchen.
*It is so cold. Frosty mornings. I want to go take pictures, but it is so cold out there. I have not been taking very many pictures lately. I just have not felt the motivation.
*while bringing in a load of wood for the wood stove I cracked my knee on the door frame. It is so dark blue now. I cursed a blue streak (what exactly is a blue streak?). This happened two days ago and even now it is throbbing. I really smashed it. A few weeks ago I stubbed my toe on one of those strips the put in the doorways to separate carpet from wood floor or in my case wood floor from linoleum (I know it is really vinyl, but I love the word linoleum). Well I managed to stub it so hard that it bruised me under the nail, it looked like it bent the nail back. Strange thing is that I have NO idea how that could even be possible. Seriously, how does one bend a toenail back on something that cannot grab your nail? I cried a little and cursed another blue streak. This happened weeks ago and it is still a little tender.
*Mr. L said he will hook up the Wii tonight. I am excited about this.
*pandora has now played 6 Beatles songs, 4 radiohead, and
*I am going to make an eye appointment soon. My sight has become rather bad lately. It is time for Lavender to get glasses. I want some cool, hip, retro, cat eye style frames. I hope I can find some that fit my personality and style and face. I also hope the three spots I have been seeing for quite some time are no big deal. one is starting to bother me when I read. I am scared.
*Just got the mail. I hate it when junk mail reads "This is NOT Junk Mail". Liar!
*I think I am going to go heat up some apple cider and cozy up on the couch and watch some
Thinking back on my video game experiences over the years, ummm decades even, the best parts are sitting around with my friends and kicking each others butts. Without the ability to play right alongside or against my friends the the whole experience wouldn't be nearly as enjoyable.