Okay, now that's a twist.

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I have not been doing the best, off and on, lately.  After today, I realize just how much better I am generally doing.  I am sore.  From sitting!  Long stretches of concentrated effort, waiting for things to load, working out the details, restarting, and hitting it again have had me sitting a great deal.  As I mentioned, even so, I took breaks from time to time.  I have also been up to take care of a few other things.  A cup of coffee, water, or milk, lunch, and those interminable bathroom breaks.  Even so, I am actually sore from sitting so long.  This is a very good thing.  Just a few years ago, I only ever sat and slept.  I remember, at times early on, when not even the water pill could get me out of my chair as often as I should.  I would simply shake my leg like Elvis for two or three hours before finally getting to it.  Which didn't help with water retention.  But until other things improved, that was just the way of it.  I am pleased with the improvements.  Heck, sometimes I just get up and walk around to get up and walk around.  Which is why more things get done.

I don't know how close I am to updating everything.  Even after three or four rounds of updating Windows, I am on another 7.  Beats the 92, and who knows how many updates the first run.  Still... tick-tock, tick-tock.  I have a couple of hours before bedtime.  Though I took a nap, a perfect one right at two hours, I will sleep easily tonight.  It has been a lot of work, a lot of thinking, and a lot of waiting.  I am hoping to finish the updates, update a few side things, and run a program which should get rid of much of the junk they stuff into systems.  I'll keep at it until bedtime or exhaustion claim me.

I can't believe how much of a mess this system was when I lit it up.  Nothing worked, programs were tripping over each other to no good ends, while also preventing installing better programs.  I honestly didn't think I would have it running today.  I thought it would be a week, give or take a few days either way.  For one thing, I have never used Vista.  To some degree, all OS's, at least Window OS's, save Win 8, have some reasonably familiar settings, systems, and function.  I guess that was enough.  Perhaps the printer will have a better function with it, though maybe printers don't arrive with any real controls anymore?  I hope to have that sorted out tomorrow.  Hmm... if nothing else, while tinkering with that, I will see if there is a free word processor that I could use for the programming scripts.  So long as I can import what needs to be printed that should work.

Videos, while not much better looking even when I can push them to hd, are much faster to load and don't hang nearly as often.  Ah, that is sweetness.  There is nothing like having video just crash, and get bound, from too little memory and whatever else might be the problem.  Bandwidth, processing power, whatever.  This is a quad-AMD 2.3gh, with, I think, 8gb RAM and a 2gh video card.  All old, relatively slow, but not bad.  Sure beats a Pentium 4 with 512g RAM and who knows what sort of video board.  Top of the line for that motherboard, but that isn't saying much anymore.

I've got work to do.  But this is the last post for tonight.  Good night.