I finally made it into town to take advantage of a great local cafe called The Sleepless Goat. Aside from having great tea and wonderful, healthy, organic foods, they also have free high-speed internet.
I have been plagued at the cottage by endless MS downloads that hog the connection and take days if not weeks to download. As well, I wanted to get some new podcasts, music, and games for my iPod Touch. When iTunes started it informed me of a new software update and I decided to dl and install. However, with the MS update going at the same time, I have ended up sitting here for hours trying to dl everything before I go back to the lake and my usual dial-up. (high-speed is prohibitivley exspensive on the island.) Incidently, this is the same cafe I used to spend my days in while working on my MA, and consequently, I have discovered that the anxieties associated with that era have returned. I feel like I am under a deadline that in fact, does not exist. But this is really a minor concern, and is a situation exaserbated by too much cafeine.
After these two main downloads, I have to dl and install MS Framework 3.5 in order to get Paint.NET to function so that I can better edit pics for this blog and other applications. I was accustomed to using irfanview for this task on my desktop, but for whatever reason, the version I have will not allow me to save any of the changes I have made to my images. I have tried an unistall followed by a clean install, but to no avail. If anyone has any thoughts, I would greatly appreciate some help!
Anyway - back to watching the little green bar move very, very, slowly!
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