Finally.

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I won't say I have the machine up and running to it's best capacity.  I will say I have it running, and even running much better than the old machine.  I knew it should make video viewing, and some other things, much better.  Initially, and until today really, it wasn't.  It wasn't worse, except when it simply didn't work.  It just wasn't better.  I can only imagine what a brand new top of the line gaming rig would offer.  Fantastic.

It's been a lot of work.  Just updating took days, literally updating, then rechecking, and finally getting that done.  Then it took a great deal of research, downloading, installing, uninstalling, working with fidgets and unlikely possibilities.  Getting security ware on and operating (though there is still work to do there), getting Pale Moon, and the correct version, so that it worked with other programs to do what I needed. 

I finally got the background I wanted, but first had to figure out how to get Vista to allow me to increase the resolution.  And found a screen saver that will work for now.  Every time I checked something, it wouldn't work, what was needed wouldn't download, the download didn't work.  A mess.  I think, for the most part, I finally have a machine that functions in all ways I have expected, but with much better viewing, much faster surfing, and more.  I am not sure about whether it will work as even a minor gaming rig for now, but that is my next effort. 

I had no choice but to get a console, when I did.  A new computer simply wasn't possible.  I could get one now, but the cost... I have other things I would like to do with the money.  A gaming rig would be a pure luxury.  Then again, with PS3 dying due to a new machine, I could scratch the cost of a new console off the price of a new computer.  But... not for now.  Maybe for next Christmas, unless of bunch of hoped for events end up not happening for one reason or another.  The problem with consoles are many.  You are limited to what is given, there are lots of problems and no way to do workarounds, they are pushing to force us to game online, which adds another wrinkle in that if the internet goes down or is spotty, it won't work.  Plus, controls are what they are, limited to a gamepad really, and just messed up sometimes. 

Not that I play a great deal anymore.  But I might if I didn't have to fight internet access, poor controls, a dozen juggernaut companies trying to skin and flay my wallet or sense of control at every single turn.  It's a pain to even find a game to play, that I might like, on PS 3.  Which, as I mentioned, is now obsolete... being replaced by a slightly less, itself, obsolete platform.  Junk from birth to grave.  Plus, with a computer, you can tinker a great deal more.  I like to tinker.  If I wanted a nanny, about cheating, I'd wear diapers, thank you!  :p

Oh, right... Today?  Not much.  The movie was just something to kill time, since I couldn't do much else.  Plus, a victory lap at having finally gotten the systems to work.  I'll see about getting some things done.  I want to work.  I just don't have what it takes.  I did try to call my mother.  She must have laid down for a nap.  I may try to call her again, and call my friend about rescheduling for Tuesday.  I'll keep trying to get some work done.  Sometimes that is just what it is.  Later.