Waiting waiting waiting

[susandennis]

I'm waiting for Mom to call me. I'm waiting for a package to come in today's mail from a vendor. I'm waiting for artwork to come in via email from another vendor. I'm waiting waiting waiting...

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And while I'm waiting, fj gave me a great idea.... He posted a link to one of Nokia's up and coming cool new products which is a digital frame fed by cellphone. That got me thinking about digial frames. I've had such fun watching the RedHat screen saver on the computer behind me, I thought, wouldn't it be cool to have a digital frame here on my desk running the RedHat screen saver? I have a 400 year old Toshiba that is good for next to nothing. It's such a dog that I toss it into Kenny's kennel of computer hardware bits and pieces here at work.

We dug it out - I'm thinking if I can get it to recognize his PCMCIA CD drive then maybe I could load RedHat and set it up just to run the screen saver and amuse me.

It actually powered up - Windows98 with a whopping 24 MB of RAM. It wants a driver for the CD drive. Sigh. There is a network card in the side... hmmm wonder if I can find a dongle.

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Mom's last email which said she got a big ugly message and lost her systray came in about 3 hours ago. It's what led to my reboot shutdown. She said she was off to the doctors to get her blood checked. I called her after I did the stupid and told her what I had done and to hit the power switch and/or call me. I figure she'd get home from the doctors and get some lunch and then take a nap and then call me or power up. She's had tons of time to do it all and I've heard nothing and her IP isn't saying 'hi'.

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The mail just came in and the package wasn't in there. Sigh.

So... I'm still waiting.