Late Sunday evening. A less-than-stellar week was followed by what was essentially a working weekend, one where everything undertaken consumed more time than expected. There was the purchase and installation of two air conditioners, the installation of a power backup for the computer (power service in our neighborhood has been spotty since the summer heat arrived), clothes lines put in place in the basement, and a new laptop for Lisa.

While finding and installing the air conditioners and the power backup was frustrating–those two seemingly innocuous tasks ate up over 15 hours–the setup of Lisa’s new Acer was excruciating. We went really cheap on her new machine (she only plans on using it for email and surfing), and while 256MB of memory will probably be fine for that, it made the initial software setup and configuration extremely slow. (One of the side-effects of the low price was almost nothing was installed on it, even basic virus protection.) One Windows reboot actually took over 10 minutes. In the end, setting up her computer took over three hours, a process that probably wouldn’t have taken more than 15 minutes on my desktop. On the bright side, Lisa is really happy with it, and there won’t be any more jockeying for one computer, so it was probably time well spent.

And that’s pretty much it. Aside from an excellent (and rain-soaked) dinner I’ll write about sometime this week, there’s not much else to talk about. (Well, I guess I could talk about laundry, but this entry is boring enough as it is.) More later.