BerthaBlog

Friday morning I booted up as usual, checked my mail and my LJ friends page, shut down and headed off to class.

Friday afternoon I turned on the computer to start on my homework (kids: “You have homework on weekends?” Yep, and if you make it into college, so will you). Got the usual booting screen, but instead of a login screen it all went black.

Tried power cycling it. Nada.

My mate, the alpha geek, had a look at it Saturday. Seems my password database got corrupted somehow. He might have been able to drag it back from the dead, but it would have taken a lot of work and he already does that kind of thing all day long. Anything I care about was saved to the server anyway, so I told him to just wipe it and re-install Windows from scratch. I’ve spent most of today re-installing software and re-configuring most of it to find the data files in my server directory.

In other news, my grandmother is back in the hospital. Hopefully she’ll be out in a week or two. I’m going to try and go by to see her today or tomorrow.

Considering that my last few posts have been more or less content-free, I was trying to think of something interesting, or at least controversial, to talk about.

Unfortunately there’s not much of interest going on at the moment, and I’ve never been good at stirring up controversy. About the only thing I could think of in the “rile people up” line was “Kittens suck!” and I don’t think anyone who’s read my blog would fall for that.

But if you’ve been wondering how the accounting course is going, I’m actually enjoying it more than I thought I would. There’s not so much math as I’d thought; so far we’ve been learning the double-entry bookkeeping system, which is more like solving puzzles—you have a bunch of pieces, and you have to figure out where to put them. I like puzzles.

Perhaps one day this week I’ll take my camera along and take some pictures of the campus, just to have some visual aids. Maybe I’ll start doing the Rain Man thing and just take pictures of whatever shiny object attracts my attention at the moment. Maybe I’ll get lucky and we’ll have a flasher I can catch in the act. The weather is getting a bit warmer, after all.