Computer Woes and Other Trauma

I'm surviving. You should have seen everything I got done yesterday so that I would keep my mind off of wondering whether or not A was where he needed to be when he needed to be there. As is was I got a phone call from him around 2. I had to laugh. While he was wrapping up the end of his packing and printing out labels to put on postcards (isn't he efficient?) he asked if I would print out three copies of his packing list. I printed out one and asked, "This one?" just to be sure.

"Yes," he replies. "But I don't need that e-mail at the end. That was for you. Just print off the packing list."

Well, I blipped off the e-mail and printed the list but elected not to save the updated version.

Good thing, because he called wanting to know from that very e-mail where he was supposed to be meeting his delegation. This after we had had a lengthy discussion about that very topic--they would meet in Terminal One near the ticket counters and then proceed to the gate in Terminal Five. He had already been to Terminal One, had made his way to Terminal Five and thanks to the phone call was trekking back to Terminal One. At least he could assure his delegation how to get where they needed to be in Terminal Five I guess.

"Well, you sound more rested, anyway," I told him.

"Uh, not really."

"Well, then you'll probably sleep on the plane like you should."

"I hope."

Byes and love-yous were said, and from that point on I tracked him via the Lufthansa website. They left a few minutes early and were due to arrive on time. Since my laptop is down--hence the computer woes, more later--I couldn't track his landing in Munich which corresponded to around 1 in the morning our time, nor his landing in Athens, about 4 AM here. But I've been thinking about him a lot today. I'm not worried, oddly enough. The anxiety seemed to turn off when I didn't have delegation leaders frantically phoning wondering where my son was. :)

As for the computer woes, wouldn't you know. It's quiet and I can have some interrupted time to work and now the laptop won't dial in to the internet. I've gotten a couple of error messages. One says the port is already open, to close the port and retry. The other says there's a hardware conflict that is interfering with the modem. First thing I tried--restarting. No luck. I tried checking the modem in device manager. That's where it says it's functioning and then gives me the hardware conflict message (I have not added any hardware, unless a Flash drive counts, but I've been using it for months now with no problem.) I tried doing a system restore to when it was working--no luck. I haven't given it much thought with everything else going on (this surfaced yesterday morning) and probably won't get to this weekend either. Come Monday, maybe. Hey didn't someone write a song about that? LOL! Thank you Jimmy Buffett.

Okay, can you tell my mind is rambling. It finally has a chance to. I wish it would ramble to where I put that rent check I can't find. I sure hope I can restore some type of order to my life before ds is back and needs to concentrate on ACTs and transcript, etc., etc., and all that jazz. Hope to have that wrapped up too. I'd better get moving on it though.

Okay, enough rambling. If there are any suggestions out there for the computer problem, e-mail me please!!!