Making Progress

It's been tough to post this last week as my "office" downstairs was flooded and is now drying out. Drying out means five commercial fans blowing air into previous wet areas and a huge dehumidifier. Actually I can only run three of the fans before I start tripping circuit breakers, but it's plenty loud. Having the TV on in the background is completely out of the question.

Along with those problems, I'm still fighting unknown viruses on my computer. It seems like the anti-virus programs hog all of the memory and then stall out the computer. Or that's what the virus is doing and the three anti-virus programs I've tried haven't been able to kill it. Not sure.

Fortunately I do have an office to go to, which I did today, and I also have operational wireless thanks to constant nagging by ESDNM to get it hooked up so he could do "work" while he's staying at Chateau Sutton. So it's not awful, but it is being reinforced in my mind that I need a new laptop for doing just basic stuff, nothing hardcore. Time to hit the store I think.

Wedding plans are coming along despite the weather god's best efforts to....wait for it.....dampen them. Ha! Responses keep coming in, as do gifts, and we are diligently logging them and sending thank you notes the next day. It looks like we're going to have around 70 people there, one of whom will NOT be Bill the Bear.

Yesterday afternoon I went golfing with Bill the Bear as well as Nick and reminded Bill on several occasions that he was not coming to the wedding with comments like: "So how are those home renovations coming that are keeping you from coming to the wedding?" Little jabs like that kept me entertained most of the round. By the way, we finished a full round for the first time this year (or at least the first time for me with the boyz in our after work league). Though I played poorly on the front, I shot a 3 over 39 on the back. Not bad.