1:28 am

So, been packing and packing. Seem to only be able to get anything done when Annette is here. I have such an aversion to packing. After I got home from dinner with Amber and family, I was all pumped up to do some packing tonite since I only have one more day before the movers come. I came home around 9pm and drank a red bull with high hopes. I had to go to the grocery store and when I came home, I didn't really feel like doing anything. I packed a few things in my suitcase and petered out. It's like trying to make myself pack is like trying to make myself inflict some type of injury on myself. Everything in me is saying, "no, let's not do this."

So I got in bed and finished Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke. It was good. Short little novel. I have to break them up. I just read Conquistador by S.M. Stirling and it was rather dense so I had to read a quickie in between. So I was trying to sleep, but since I drank a red bull only a few short hours ago, I suddenly was struck with the urge to install my old IDE drive into my computer, which I found today while packing my office.

This is the old drive from my original Alienware machine. I have installed a SATA drive now which is easy. Now I have to try to install an IDE drive, which is a bit more complicated. However, this drive is not blank, so it won't be as hard because it is already partitioned. I just have to make sure I set the jumpers right. Actually, I'm pretty sure that I need to take the jumper off because it will be a slave. I can't have my machine trying to boot to this drive, it would be bad. It does have a complete XP install on it, though. I will need to wipe that.

So, wish me luck once again. I'm tired but wired so my problem-solving skills are not at their best right now. It would seem that packing would be a good idea instead, but I've convinced myself that I really need to install this drive because I have already been through one move with the drive just hanging out in a box and I don't really want to risk damaging it with another move.

K here I go.

By the way, I will likely be incommunicado after tomorrow for a little while until I get internet up and running at my new house.