Puttering.

[mdlbear]

Since I've been at home all day, it seemed reasonable to do a little puttering. So far, I've:

1. Handed Colleen her new EeePC. It does everything she wants except play live365, the screen is significantly larger, and it has a multi-touch trackpad. Win. Happy (slightly belated) Mother's Day, Love!
2. Reconfigured the old EeePC (borrowed from work) with something resembling my own browser bookmarks and preferences. Verified that Pidgin works, though the keyboard is way too small for comfortable IMing.
3. Brought the other Fry's Windows box (Seymore) down from the attic, got it running, (the RAM had been cannibalized) and upgraded it from DeMuDi to Etch. Still don't know what was wrong -- even Windows seems to be working. This makes the third (and last) box I've upgraded this way; it's a little tricky but manageable.

(Of course, now that the Wolfling is "borrowing" the monitor that used to be in the office, I don't really have any place to put either of the two Fry's boxen.)

Still have a noticable fever -- Colleen was right to keep me home. Took a nap instead of a walk; slept at most a couple of minutes, but even lying down and being quiet for half an hour was a big help.

OK, I haven't been very productive, but at least the day hasn't been a total bust.