Okay, it's cold and gray for like the fifth day in a row and it's starting to affect my disposition.

Yesterday I was bustling around, doing bits of chores (kitchen floor, bathroom floor, dusting, etc.) and one of the things I did was to renew the virus software and download the latest windows updates on the PC. Ten minute later, the PC was up-to-date, but my wireless was no longer working and I couldn't get online with my laptop.

Four hours later, after being repeatedly bounced between the manufacturer of the router and the manufacturer of the laptop...it still wasn't working. I uninstalled things, reverted to earlier versions, soft-booted things, hard-booted them, reset things, changed other things. Finally, my cell phone battery gave out and I gave up.

I'll buy a new router. It's easier than trying to figure out what's wrong with this one. (But first, I'm going to haul the laptop in to the office tomorrow and see if it will connect to our wireless network here.)

Needless to say, that was not how I'd intended to spend my Sunday afternoon.

I also didn't intend to spend part of my weekend in a barrage of e-mails with a new web designer. I finally gave up on the company that designed my other blog (I've been trying to get them to fix some problems since January) and hired someone new. He found a lot more problems with the site than I (or he) anticipated at first, but after he gets them corrected, the site will load a lot faster and I won't always be getting error messages when I try to rebuild.

Sigh. It was cold and gray and snowy all weekend and I didn't even get to huddle down with my story file and do some writing to distract me from it. That's very sad.

I've put on five pounds and I’m back on the diet.

Wednesday I have to go to Missouri.

I am just so grouchy.