Sure was nice to come home from work last night and have some daylight left. If only I didn’t have to worry about my sump pump running every 5 minutes. Doing the math, I’m guessing it’s pumping something like 3,600 gallons of water a day. Seems like an awful lot, and I’m not convinced that at least some of it isn’t short-cycling and coming back in. So, weekend project is to pipe it out the wall and as far toward the cornfield as I can get it, to see if that slows things down. At least on a temporary basis. This whole thing is about as much fun as a trip to the dentist. Speaking if which…

Yes, it’s a dental day today. He called me yesterday, and said he missed me, hasn’t seen me in a couple weeks, and what with spring coming, he’s got some boat expenses coming up. So that’s how I’ll be starting my day. First, permanent crown on on tooth, and then start to work on the other crown replacement. And then that’ll be it, damn it.

Otherwise, I’m not really missing the Macbook. I found some alternative touchpad drivers that give me 2-finger scroll (about the only thing I didn’t have), and actually some other things that the Mac didn’t do. The Dell I’m using has the same size screen but a smaller footprint. So the touchpad is a lot smaller, as is the keyboard. I;d forgotten that typing on this thing is kind of painful, but for most of what I do, that isn’t really an issue. It also doesn’t have a lighted keyboard, which I miss a bit. Otherwise, for the computer equivalent of a dinosaur, you can’t beat it. Time to give the Macbook back to work (as soon as I clean it of anything subversive, of course).

Well, only 190 gallons of water before I have to leave for the dentist, so I guess I better make a fresh pot of joe. Have a good one.