I want a Mac

A very expensive, very fast, guaranteed-to-work-all-the-time-especially-during-baby-bedtime kind of Mac.

But I won't.

It's just that I have a growing collection of photos and videos that I want to post (and not just for your benefit), but I can't. I think this is because when we upgraded the motherboard's BIOS to try to get the RAID controller to work (it never did work), we apparently broke the computer's ability to talk in USB-speak. Drives that worked when we first got the computer now don't.

And then . . . this afternoon I could see the photos on the card, but I wasn't able to label them correctly because my Camera and Scanner Wizard was missing (and labeling them individually is a pain). Thinking maybe Matt ran a registry cleaner on here (he's tried everything, lately, to get this thing to behave like it's supposed to), I just added the lines for the wizard back in.

And now my computer can't see my card at all. Maybe the problem wasn't the registry, but the USB-BIOS-whatever-thing? I don't know.

Back to the old registry. Tomorrow. I think I know enough to do that. I don't have the energy to do it tonight.

This is driving me crazy. Can you tell? I just want to eBay this machine or take it back or something and buy a PC-For-Dummies or something that is guaranteed to work (might never happen, as long as I use Microsoft products?) and not bother me during the very small window of time that I have to myself to peaceably sit in front of my computer.

I probably broke the laptop by running something that made it overheat, and now I brought home a computer that I apparently shouldn't have bought because I chose a motherboard and other vital components other by the advice of the sales geek (nice, but did he really know what he was talking about?) while rocking C&D in the stroller and watching them drop crumbs from their Sweet Seeduction rolls all over the geek-store floor. The computer doesn't work the way it was supposed to even though the sales guy said of course it would, it works even worse because I updated the BIOS just like their El Cheapo technical support told me to, and now I broke the registry.

Do you hear that? That's the sound of me hitting my head against the wall.

Oink, oink. I'm going to make like the animals of The Big Red Barn and go to sleep (". . . and there they were all night long sound asleep in the big red barn. Only the mice were left to play rustling and squeaking in the hay . . ."). Tomorrow is another day.

And while I try to sleep, I'll be thinking. Remember when a 20MB hard drive was a big deal, amazing, wow-wow-wow? I wonder what the babies will be using when they are 29 years old, and will it be any more easy to use?