20110126

melog-20110126.log

My day started off well enough. I woke up in time to get the kids off to school. They seemed to be dealing with a lot of congestion, sneezing, and runny noses. I gave them some over the counter meds and a breathing treatment from their nebulizer and sent them off to catch the bus.

I did my upper body workout. I can see myself improving. I know, I'm still out of shape, but I can tell I'm making improvements.

That made me feel really good; I thought I was enjoying the great beginning of what would a great day.

I had spent last night transferring a Linux install from a usb thumb drive to my lap top hard drive using a program called Terabyte Unlimited. Cool program.

By the way . . . if you value your computer at all to any degree at all, make sure you have an anti-virus program (that is up to date, and not expired) and have a backup plan.

I was really enjoying my success.

Then I tried to use my laptop to install a 64-bit version of Linux to my usb thumb drive to replace the version that I just installed to my laptop.

The install DVD started "examining" the disks for some reason.

It took forever, so, I cancelled it.

And, I also seemed to cancel all the data on my laptop, too.

Lucky for me, I could just apply the disk image again.

But, something came up at work that forced me to have to do put that off until later.

I ran across several other obsticals throughout the day, but I seemed to meet them all. The day was tough, but I was coming out ahead.

I'm getting ready to come home, and then I get a call from my wife that my son fell and hurt his wrist. And, my daughter has a fever.

Both of them will be seeing the doctor in the morning.

Knowing that I'll have to spend a good deal of time and money (along with watching the kids endure great discomfort) has seemed to take some of the wind out of my sail.

Oh well . . .