Anyway, it’s been one of them days. I know, it’s the weekend and there’s not supposed to be ‘one of them kind of days.’ It wasn’t supposed to be, so here’s the poop: We went to a few stores today and were to come home to play games and scrap book. Neither happened. In fact Margaret is still setting up her stuff (while I keep mine in boxes). Me on the other hand had to repair Windows XP.

When we got home I noticed my computer Jeff’n up. So like any regular person running Windows I restarted the thing. When it came up it said ‘hal.dll’ is missing or corrupted. I know it’s not verbatim, but still I was surprised that something went awry. I popped in the Windows disc and started up my mad DOS skills that the thing uses to no avail. So in the end I had to act like I was going to re-install Windows and then use the repair tool that it had. If I knew of that darned thing I would’ve used it, because it took over 6 hours for chkdsk /r to complete.

So now I’m going to dual boot my system with XP and some Linux distro. If XP decides to jeff up again, then I’ll have a back up to tinker it into stumble mode.

I was this close (fingers held close together) to possibly buying Vista. Don’t know why. It’s a software issue and I was close to going back to the dark side. Anyway, I’m off looking for a good distro. Ubuntu is alright and Kubuntu seems the same. I might hit something else.