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Shavua tov and shanah tovah everybody, welcome to 5785.

After two weeks, I finally have a computer up and running. It's a little notebook, and I'm having to learn how to run as many apps as possible in portable mode since the SSD in this thing is only 250GB, but it'll get me until I can get a new desktop.

Also, I killed the SD card for my braille display, and so I'll need to replace that too.

Definitely not so good times for technology.

I'll be rangling Office and dropbox tomorrow.

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Oh and did I mention how absolutely user-hostile trying to use an already licensed under one user copy of Office 365 under a second user's account is? Because this is totally not happening without the extortion of Microsoft demanding I either add another license, which I will need to use on the incoming laptop, or just don't use Office in anything other than "we're taking your shit hostage" mode.

I entirely understand why non-techheads hate technology, because I want to throw things. I'm already dreading having to call support to unlicense the dead computer next week.

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Get in Babkans and other fedizens, we've made it to Friday.

I'm extremely glad Shabbat is coming later today, because I am here to tell you that we have six days left in 5784 and the entire rest of 5784 is fired.

This all started Wednesday morning, when I woke up to find that my computer had bitten the dust over night, of which I got confirmation yesterday thanks to some sighted assistance. And when I say "bitten the dust", I mean it won't even attempt to boot. Just white screen with faint Dell logo.

I'm waiting on a provisional laptop from a friend for whom I will gladly hide bodies, which I should receive sometime next week. And to deal with truly pressing issues I'm using an extra account on John's computer.

All of this is why activity on the fediverse has been extremely lite for this week.

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Get in Babkans and other fedizens, we're doing Wednesday.

John and I are stuffed from breakfast, which we got from the bagel place we found. Looks like that place has lunch stuff and decently made smoothies too, so I will be getting smoothies next summer.

Other than that it's housework day.

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Get in Babkans and other fedizens, we're doing Tuesday.

This morning the landscapers are out and making noise, so I suspect I won't be getting much work done for now. Good thing I can rearrange. We have the windows open and don't want to close all of them.

Other than that, John and I have read five of the "In Death" books so far. We like the series but are taking a break for now.

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Get in Babkans and other fedizens, we're doing Monday.

It's been a while since I've done one of these so this might be a bit longer than normal.

First, I hope everyone's having a good week so far and that Monday doesn't turn out to be too difficult. This week looks like it's going to be relatively slow for me, which is good because I would like some slowness. So I'll get a chance to catch up on some conference videos from last week. I'll do WordCamp US videos next week hopefully. Speaking of #WCUS, I hope everyone has safe travels.

More later.

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