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Everyone in the East US has gotten an early winter blast. We got into the low 20s here with teens just a little inland.

Both Penny and I are still under the weather. We thought we were better, the stomach virus, or whatever, seems to have only have taken a respite. It now has returned for us, to Penny more severely than with me.

It’s provided a good reason to stay in the relative warmth of the house. I’m taking the indoor time to load Windows 7 on my desktop, catch up with the house after traveling and break out the Christmas decorations.

I bought the windows 7 upgrade for my computer thinking I could load it and keep all my programs. I did back up all my data but I had about a dozen downloaded programs I would have liked to keep. I also wanted to avoid having to re-load all the programs I have disks for.

The problem I had with my computer was it would crash whenever the Vista service pack 1 update was installed. When I tried to install the windows 7 upgrade it wouldn’t install without SP1 being installed. So I installed SP1 hoping the computer would at least boot afterwards but, as in the past, it crashed hard. My only option was to install Windows 7 cold and have to set up the computer again.

I’m sitting here now on my laptop while I have the Symantec rep reinstall my Norton antivirus on the desktop.

The good news is that Windows 7 seems to be working properly. I also now have an upgrade disk for Windows 7 that I can use on my laptop if I choose to go that route.

I’ll be loading software onto the laptop on and off for the rest of this week as well as putting up decorations. We are also going to go enjoy Christmas lights when we get feeling better.