You cannot imagine

how pleased I am that I was able to get the damn PC up and running.

Although I’m a pretty experienced computer user, the thought of actually diving into the bowels of DOS usually makes me shiver.

Nonetheless, that’s what I did to deal with a conflict that was making the whole thing lock up on start up.

Using Annie’s laptop, I got some info from a bulletin board and tried a number of things, working from safe mode to start and then getting into actual DOS stuff…and it worked!

I feel accomplished…it also makes me really, REALLY want to go back to my Mac, which never had these problems.

Maybe I’ll look around for a cheap older iBook for myself as a back-up — got too much invested in the desktop to totally dump it, and Anne prefers Windows (although she initially got me hooked on Macs, go figure) so we’ll always have at least one around.

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Starting to book features again — got to get back to DC/Baltimore in the next day or two to get that settled; there’s a NYC thing floating around out there to nail down, need to finalize a Cantab date, and I’ve got to settle the Catskills Folk/Poetry Festival details.

I do have a Westfield MA gig coming up in May as well.

Ought to book myself a few around Worcester, eh?

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Off to meetings — more later. (I’m busy as hell lately.)