Ah, for a relaxing weekend ...

FRIDAY

• Assuming I get out of here in a timely fashion today (not a safe bet these days), my number one job at home is sorting out some of the fallen branches around the house. A guy named "Ox" (not kidding, though he's not what I would describe as Ox-like) is going to be by in about a week to haul it off, but in the meantime I want to get it off the plants and fences.

  Fortunately, the Old Tree Trunk neighbors are picking up the bill for that tree's branches that are all over our driveway. In the back, I could imagine dunning the neighbors for the remains of their trees, but it's not worth it.

• Also on today's hit parade, cleaning the house. Oh, boy!

• Computer-related stuff (see below).

• Tonight is a big dinner/dance/silent auction fundraiser for our church, same deal as the last time. Should be fun. We have up for auction the same three things we did last time -- a couple hundred dollars of wine, a "five dinners for a family of four, delivered pre-made and ready to be heated" deal, and a "gourmet multi-course dinner served in your home for up to 6, wine included" deal. The latter was so well received last time that they're going to do it as a live auction, which should be fun.

  Now all we have to do is get a sitter. Margie made several phone calls earlier in the week, but nothing doing. Rrg.

SATURDAY

• Another function Saturday night, another sitter we've yet to obtain. Rrg. "Hungry Flock" progressive dinner thang, again for the church. Should be fun, as usual, but ...

SUNDAY

• Assuming anyone can make it, it's our official Game Day at the house. The second of the several that have come and gone that we can actually do. Yeesh. But, hence, the cleaning up on Friday, since the place is a mess.

Also on the docket for this weekend -- finally got a replacement PC for Margie, who's been struggling along with her old one. It's a refurbed Compaq Presario SR1475CL, via CostCo. Should be adequate for 2-3 years (the main restriction on Margie's PC -- RAM limit of 512Mb). Arrived in the mail yesterday. Amongst that things that need doing:

1. Identifying the applications that need installing.
2. Backing up configurations.
3. Backing up data.
4. Installing applications over on the new machine.
5. Restoring data to the new machine.
6. Moving the graphics card from the old machine to the new machine.
7. Upgrade the RAM on the new computer from 512Mb to 1Gb (or more, depending on my whims).
8. Reloading City of Heroes (and CoV/test server stuff).
9. Endless tweaking.

Not sure how much of that will be done this weekend. I can use my external HD for the backup purposes -- but I need to do some cleaning of it (it's got stuff from several laptop backups on it, and some of it is stuff that's no longer on my current machine).

I think "sleep" shows up on the list somewhere here. Oh, and "relax," too. We'll have to see about that.

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Quoth ***Dave ...

Ow.

Ow, ow, ow.

Upon reflection, I haven't really done much yardwork this year. A bit of weed spraying, an occasional light trim of stuff, but nothing like, oh, moving around a bunch of very large branches from their resting points atop the fence. Or planting several irises and fifty daffodil bulbs. Or ...

Ow. I think I'll ask my friend, Mr. Advil, for some help ...