Been quite the busy little qat lately. Started back to school — online and around my variable work schedule — since I am obviously never going to climb past the “working VERY poor” category unless I get some papers to prove I am a good hiring bet.

Then the main hard drive for my ‘pewter died…

Not to worry! Son can fix computer and will let me borrow his laptop until my machine is functional again. Hold on, all my passwords are gone! Eek!

Reconstituted bookmarks and most passwords in between sessions of frantic typing to avoid falling behind in classes. Of course I suddenly had more work hours each week, too. And did I mention that the calendar was heading into the holiday season, too? So…oh well, sleep is overrated…

Son returned repaired ‘pewter. Oh boy, a new round of trying to remember passwords while still doing the work stuff, holiday stuff, and school stuff! Final week of class block approaching (along with the peak of holiday activities) and it’s time to stop rebuilding bookmarks and password lists in order to do the necessary research for those final projects.

WHAT!?! Why isn’t this search engine working right all of a sudden? It worked fine yesterday!

Rootkit. Ick. Much time and effort required to accomplish anything until the darn thing could be completely removed.

Okay…’pewter functional, if absent the former D: drive stuff; survived another holiday routine; work hours stabilizing, comparatively speaking; final projects begun and my brain needs a break from thinking that direction. Time to go to the blog before it shrivels up and disappears.

Two hours of fighting with password retrievals and tweaking unfamiliar hosting settings later, I have arrived–exhausted and totally blank regarding what I thought I would write about today. All that’s left is an old nursery rhyme that insists on playing over and over through my memory…

“I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.
The reason why, I cannot tell,
But this I know, and know full well:
I do not like thee, Dr. Fell.”

There may some deep, perhaps even profound, meaning to all this, but if there is, then I am unaware of what it might be. Maybe I’ll go take a nap…

Today I’ve been trying to do school stuff, and I actually have managed to do some. I’ve also done some kitchen cleaning, some bathroom cleaning, some household laundry, and some errand running. I would do more school stuff — at my age, maybe there isn’t a lot of time to waste, yes? — but my thoughts are skittering a bit. Okay, fine. Lifetime is running the “Medium” series, pilot episode on now, and I didn’t see the show new because I was working a horrible overnight shift at the time. Good show, BTW, if a bit uncomfortable…sometimes fictional dialog is just a little too reminiscent of past reality.

Normally, when seeking televised diversion, I would watch HGTV, or maybe catch some “Bones.” But the lineup on HGTV tonight just doesn’t grab me and TNT’s self-promotion commercials were jarring. Not because commercials are annoying, although they often are. No, I can’t veg out and just absorb into the fiction because the folks at TNT have made a grammatical error that a reasonably intelligent person from a good high school or maybe a community college should have spotted and remedied long ago. But it appears that grammar is not a high priority with the folks at TNT. For months they have been airing their “More Movie. Less Commercials.” ads. ARGH!! No, no, no, no, NO! Commercials are individual, countable units. Isn’t the state of American education sad enough without a major broadcaster proving, multiple times each day, that Americans can’t properly manipulate the English (American style) language?

“More movie. Fewer commercials.”

“More movie. Fewer commercials.”

“More movie. Fewer commercials.”

I kind of doubt anyone in the TNT offices will read this, so I probably won’t be able to actually relax watching their channel until they change to a whole new ad campaign. Meanwhile, looks like Lifetime has gained a viewer.

I finally got the old posts here…where I hope they will avoid disappearing!

Maybe now I can actually do some NEW writing…sometime…but not now, because I’ve got things to do that don’t involve the computer…{sigh}

The server may have changed, but some things still remain t

Bouncing around the room, metaphorically speaking. Why? Because I have successfully begun the process of moving and resurrecting Qat Thoughts! I did it!

Well, I’ve started to do it, anyway. There’s a lot yet to be accomplished, so for now it’s

“To be continued…”