We still don’t have everything functional with the new computer, but we’re getting closer. I’ve determined, in connection with the CD-RW, that it sees no disks at all; I’ve also realized that in that technical information that flies across the screen during boot-up, which is gone before the monitor has warmed sufficiently to display it if it’s a cold boot, there’s a message to the effect that there is no channel 80 connection on the primary IDE, or something like that. I copied the message and delivered it to my primary computer guru, who is working on what it means in terms of what is actually wrong. I do not know whether the two items are connected, but since the CD drive is hooked on an IDE line, it seems reasonably likely that they might be. Some trouble-shooting guide somewhere suggested that the problem was probably that I have five IDE drives and most PCs only support four, but since I also have a second IDE driver card installed and three unused ports there, I’m thinking that’s probably incorrect–there wouldn’t be much market for IDE cards if they didn’t work, and I’m pretty sure that the non-functioning drive is not the one on the card.

I’ve also been dabbling at the Romans editing while running errands, including taking my sick son for medical testing Saturday morning instead of being in church. Also, since I’m dabbing at musical recordings and arrangements in my odd moments instead of playing computer games, I’ve finished more recordings from the Collision repertoire–recordings which remain on my hard drive, since I have not yet gotten the information to reconfigure my FTP program and my CD burner is still not working. I’m also locked out of the Valdron development forum because I don’t have my ID and password, and apparently I don’t know which mailbox was used to register me there. I’ve got to get someone to help me with that, I think.

There’s a rumor about that one of my sons is coming home tonight, and that I am driving him. I do not know whether either of those statements are facts, but probably will learn the truth shortly.

In the meantime, let me accomplish something.

–M. J. Young