Organ transplant gone astray? Nope, it’s a shipment of frozen Tanka dogs and dry ice.

Finally got around to installing IIS 7.0 and its administrative interface today.
I also tried to install Drupal, Joomla and some other programs. What a pain! Each app not only requires a database password, which is nuisance enough, but also up to two additional password keys. Overkill, methinks, for a single-user development machine.
So, I’ve spent about the last 9 hours – since 4:30 this morning – on maintenance.
I’m ready for a nap.

I worked for over 5 hours this morning and a couple last night to resolve a network driver problem with my HP Pavilion.
This followed an unsuccessful attempt to update drivers, itself an unsuccessful attempt to resolve a Blue Screen issue that’s been reported for both Vista and Windows 7.
My Broadcom wireless driver is still fried, but I’m hard-wired to the Comcast modem via a newly-installed NVIDIA nForce driver, and that’ll do for now – especially since everything fits into the computer armoire.
So, it looks like my bedroom is a bedroom again, which is probably not a bad thing, and the spare room is an office.
I do miss the view of the garden, though.

Tried out the sander today. It works well, although I need heavier grit quarter sheets.
Turned on the heat, finally. I just couldn’t stand the cold any longer.

Mowed the lawn, which needed it. Watered the new grass garden at 11. Did a transfer station run with Peter. Comcast was out to check on a problem with the box outside that affected several houses.

Last night’s season finale of “Mad Men” featured the engagement of Don Draper, the handsome, middle-aged, literally self-made man – to his 25 year old secretary. Which brought up the question, “Does she really know him?” (Answer: no, since Don has not yet revealed his actual identity to her).
That resonates because I’m wondering the same thing: at what point do we really know another person well enough to say that we love them and not our idea of them?

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Planted a half dozen hyacinths yesterday in between the back yard Montauks. Should be a great spot, since it gets a lot of sun. I was happy to get them in before last night’s rain.
Had a really nice, easy supper tonight, baked pollock (beautiful fillet from Roche Bros) and a home made Asian Salad knockoff with romaine, peapods, craisins, almonds, noodles and Drew’s sesame orange dressing, far superior to Kraft’s.