I took a look at how many hours a day I spend seated, and I’ve been keen on using my standing desk again, where the now-dead computer was in residence. The standing desk has fallen by the wayside, which I can tell by the way the room seemed to clutter up while I wasn’t looking. I don’t want to move my big graphics computer there, since it’s impractical to stand while I’m working on graphics. But since I’ve got a billion computers, I figured I’d set up something else for now.
There’s a part in one of the early PsyCop stories where Vic starts his crappy laptop and it downloads updates for half an hour. Well, evidently I’m using Vic’s laptop now. Not only did it download updates for half an hour last night, but this morning I accidentally uninstalled Scrivener when I meant to be uninstalling the old beta versions of the program…and then it effing updated anti-virus for another half hour. AAAAGH.
I think it’s done now. One can only hope.
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But businesses love to perpetuate this fallacy--that multitasking is admirable, or even possible.
UGH those updates - mine did that not too long ago - those updates are annoying and since my laptop has McAfee - inevitably that update requires a restart AFTER the windows update - just about the time I get everything back up and running again >:(
DOUBLE UGH that you uninstalled Scrivener :( Does that mean you lost some of your work???
Anyway, here's hoping it's all done.
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If you're buying new, I believe they make desks that can be raised and lowered so you can both stand and sit at them. I would look into that for myself in the future, I'd love the flexibility.
No work at all lost, I suppose I should count myself lucky. It was the program itself I uninstalled, after I installed it the night before over the beta versions. I'm guessing I was looking at a bunch of shortcuts and thinking they were programs. When I hit "uninstall Scrivener Beta 1.7" it uninstalled the only scrivener on the PC, the real one. I'm not surprised, I don't know my way around a PC with any level of confidence.
I just checked and WOW are they expensive, I'm going to have to do more research LOL. Or wait...
I'm glad you didn't lose any work. I know sometimes when a program is uninstalled you lose work, so I'm really happy that didn't happen.
And huh, you seem pretty techno knowledgeable to me :D
It WILL be nice to have a zippy new box. YAY!
I donated but didn't want to put my own name. I put "Vic." The next time, I put "Jacob."
Your OTs are always riveting.