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18 08 09 - 21:15 Of course, it is tuesday...

A tuesday that couldn't make up its mind to be really rainy, like I'm talking downpours here, or sunny and warm.

Pretty busy today. Went over to do a cleanout first thing. Her Avast! license had been out of date a year, meaning every day for the past year a message popped up about being out of date and "please do something about this" which of course was completely ignored. Nice job. So I took care of things and answered some questions for her. She offered me a Mac Classic, but oddly enough I already have like four of them (a classic, a classic II, a color classic (loved that machine) and at least one or two more upstairs.) I told her to turn it into a small aquarium, but she didn't think much of the idea.

That's the problem, no do it yourself spirit anymore. Why, back in my day, we didn't even have dial up! We had to whistle the binary code into the receiver ourselves. Then listen for, and then translate the reply in our heads! And we liked it!

This one time I went down to the pool hall with an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time, and there was a guy checking his stocks, right? So he whistles in his password and there's this friend of mine who's a musical genius and he memorized it and that was the first identity theft. Really! This was in 1923 or so, way before it became fashionable.

Anyway, then I went over to to replace a power supply, answered some questions, got home and lookey look, he called to say it died again. So I quickly ate lunch and got to go all the way back there to give him another power supply. It's one of those really tiny ones, good thing I had two. Never had one fail in fifteen minutes before. Stupid thing.

After that I stopped in to the accountant's office, where I set up the three new machines. They called yesterday saying they were having trouble printing, so I walk in and he's like, "oh yeah, we did yesterday. Now it's fine." Thanks for calling me to say "yeah, it's okay now, sucker" No, just let me drive all over, it's fine. Really.

Did some comic work. Looked at the laptop, which has a dead fan, it was really heating up. Put a couple of things that didn't sell back up on ebay.

Full day tomorrow, and I already have part of thursday booked. Sheesh. I got 7 calls today, about the number I usually get fri/sat/sun when I don't answer calls. Don't you people have anything better to do? Oh wait, I need the money. I love you guys.

Got all caught up on the comic after dinner, made phone calls. Now I can start on this weeks comic.

Hey, did you know the moon is, at its closest point, 225,622 miles from the Earth? My car has traveled almost 140,000 miles. That means in another 85,622 miles, I'll have gone the distance from here to the moon. Will my little car make it? Not to the moon, I mean another 85,000 miles. I can only hope. Kind of blows my mind, really. More then halfway to the moon, fixing people's computers. Of course, I had chibi kuruma before I started this business, and I did buy it used so all those aren't my miles, but still, he's traveled it.

Got an a bizarre email today:

We are a Brazil reseller. We have one customer that needs Apache Log Analyzer
Our company, resells Adobe, Corel, Extensis, and others products, for a great quantity of users that work with MAC.
We would like, to know, if is possible to resell your products at Brazil, and no only one unique opportunity.
If this is possible, what conditions to be a reseller, and the price for this first product.

I wrote back and chewed him out for using MAC instead of Mac (because I'm anal that way) and for the fact all the programs I've written are totally free, and I even make the source code available. So "reselling" them really doesn't make sense, does it? Weird. Some kind of scam, maybe? I don't know.

Reminds me I have to work on Story Editor some time. Summer is supposed to be my slow time, I can't wait to see what the winter is going to be like if it's like this now.

Current Activity: Thinking about things for my christmas list. It'll be here before you know it, you know.