But the season of giving is indeed underway. My brother called me sunday at an in opportune moment to ask me advice about his apparently hijacked computer. (This is the second time they've gone without anti-virus of any kind and the second time they've been hijacked.) I, being their compuer guy,lol, get stuck with figuring it out. The smart money is on wiping the hdd and starting over.
So in an effort to forestall the mess I'm facing with that I just gave my sister-in-law her xmas present. A laptop. She was thrilled, and I am spared the need to have a broken dell box in my living room during xmas dinner. Maybe Saturday.
Today is consumed with making candy, which I've successfully put off for over a week, picking up the pies for Thursday, and shopping for xmas dinner. I've deicded it'll be a stick-it-in-the-oven-and-ignore-it-for-several-hours dinner.
Standing rib roast,
new potatoes,
broccoli in gruyere
homemade yeast rolls,
and pecan pie.
It's that or McDonalds, I'm tired.
Oh, gotta stock up on firewood today it's supposed to start raining or snowing, they never know which, and if it does I'll never get a fire going with wet wood.
Though I do want to live in the country I discovered yesterday that I'll be screwed when it comes to internet tv. I already knew it was bad from my time at the stables. But yesterday I assigned my brother the ask of calling at&t u-verse to find out what his network was or where we'd find it,(I later found it under the modem)and he got into this round robin in which he'd be told by a recording that he'd gotten an update the previous day so power down the mdem and try again and if thatdidn't work call back, then it hung up. UNLESS he hit "O" many times when he'd be tf'd to a person who asked him to pay his bill and then they tf'd him right back to the recording. We never did speak to an actual person. See, if I move to the country at&t will be pretty much my only hope with dish svc and with the level of non-service I got yesterday I feel screwed already, and I'm not even there.
Ecards are being picked up, xmas is in the air with the big build up of a potential snow storm the weather people are giving us. Not really, they're hedging their bets, one says it'll be rain, the other says a little snow on Friday, and yet another says drizzle. They don't fucking know. But they don't get paid to say that.
With 24 hrs of A Christmas Story, and White Christmas in tap for this weekend I think I'll be catching up on films I haven't seen.
So while laying in stocks of food and wood, I feel like I'm in the country already. Maybe here should be a companion. That'd be fun I think.
And so it goes:
Love
