One Bite at a Time


That’s how you eat an elephant and that’s how we are doing our year-end clean up of the house after the Christmas explosion. Today we took on the living room and dining room. That’s where all the gifts were unloaded, stored and wrapped so you can imagine the clutter left around. There will be no pictures in this blog.


My other task today was to finish setting up the laptop that we are giving to brother Louie. I also ran it on its battery to see how long it would operate. After loading my old Office 97 on it I set about disabling any wi-fi or blue tooth capability on the machine. It’s a shame I had to do that because the laptop had integrated wi-fi and blue tooth that worked better than my laptop (which uses a PCMCIA card and gives me sporadic performance). Louie does not want internet capability on his laptop. I physically disconnected the blue tooth module and removed all the wi-fi software and drivers. Next I loaded an old version of CD creator software on the laptop so Lou can copy his journals from floppies to CD. Finally I checked that the laptop would play a DVD. I put in Seabiscuit . It played nicely and even sounded good through the stereo speakers. I found myself watching the movie for about 20 minutes. It's a good movie.


I’m really impressed by this laptop. It is perfect for Lou, too. It reads floppy disks, reads and writes CDs, plays DVDs and has a built in SD flash card reader. (We are going to give Lou a couple Megabytes on SD cards). To top things off the computer gets more than 3 hours of use on a battery charge – that should give Lou sufficient time to journal while he is on a bus. The 40 Gigabyte hard drive has lots of room for Lou’s journals.

Since we went to church this evening we have nothing to stop us(translation, to give us an excuse) tomorrow (Sunday) from taking the next bite.