I just came back from spending the evening trying to fix a computer. Not even my own, if you can believe it. Katy reminded me this morning that I'd promised to help Khaled's mom & brother fix their internet connection that's been acting wonky for the last few weeks. I'd completely forgotten. To make a long story short, everything works fine when the modem is plugged into my laptop, but nothing works when its plugged into their computer. Best guess is that the NIC is fucked up. Spending 15 minutes on hold with D-Link tech support didn't do anything good for my morale. There's nothing more I can do at this point except to tell him to buy a dirt-cheap network card to see if it's that d-link one or his board. Meh. I just remembered how much I don't care to debug hardware woes anymore.
On a higher note, after a few false starts, Katy got the flannel jammies and silky undies I'd sent her :) YAY I'm going to be seeing my kitten in 18 days now, woot! If anybody has a special request of something to be brought back from the UK, you have that many days to let me know.