Day 847

We didn't get out of bed today until almost 11.  Then it was pet stuff and breakfast.  After that I was feeling guilty, so I went out to do a bunch of little errands.  I took out the garbage and recycle and put out the cans.  Then I put a coat of paint on a target.  I fixed a bird feeder that the squirrels had broken and replaced another with a feeder we'd purchased a few weeks ago.  Then I filled the plastic containers with sacks of birdseed.  Finally I taped the TexTag to the Audi windshield and put the new license sticker on the truck window.  I want to make sure that the TexTag doesn't screw with any of the Audi's window sensors before I permanently attach it.

At that point I'd run out of things to do, so I surfed a little and then had a late lunch.  The weather was OK, but I didn't feel like driving anywhere.  The rest of the afternoon was reading and surfing and a minor trip to PC hell.  I decided I wanted Mahjong on my Windows machines.  I started looking on Amazon, but then I dimly remembered that I'd bought a Mahjong program years ago.  I went searching for it and found it.

It took awhile to find the reader and get it hooked up.  Once I loaded the disk I had to wait for 10 or 15 minutes while the virus scan scanned it.  I couldn't get the goddamn thing to abort the scan.  Eventually I got t installed and it actually ran.  This is an OLD program and Windows as to run it in compatibility mode.  That means it runs slow, but it's totally workable.

I took a break from this to do my exercises and take the dog to the mailbox.  Then I copied the install CD to a thumb drive and installed Mahjong on my laptop and the new notebook.  It works fine on all of them, except it runs full screen and not in a window.  That's probably how the program was designed.

After that it was time for dinner - Ellen fixed fish burgers.  Then I read while she watched TV.  At least it was a Jackie Chan movie instead of a chick flick.