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Yep, today was nothing but more yard work and an
occasional bit of backing stuff up for when I reformat my hard
drive. It went like this:
First thing I did after eating only one
blueberry pancake (since there was only one and I didn't want
regular ones) was follow my mom outside to look at where she wanted
the grass/weeds to be shorter. To my delight, she told me that she
and my dad had decided to take down the wire fence that had twice or
thrice been used to keep in Andrea's and Amy's sheep for 4-H. It
really gets in the way when mowing the law and forces me to have to
use the weed-eater since the mower can't get as close to the fence,
something that is much slower than the rider-mower. Since my
sisters haven't been in 4-H for a long time and probably never will
again, we don't have any further use for the fence. I suggested
taking down our 9-year-old trampoline, which is uneven and loose and
that no one jumps on anymore. My mom was all for the idea, as well. I
got gloves and began disassembling the trampoline for the first time
since I helped my dad put it up. We loved that thing. I got all the
legs out when my mom came back and helped me take off all the
springs while my youngest brother, Ben, cut the ties of the blue
matting. With it all taken apart, we hauled it off to the back with
other things that were to be thrown away. Then we started taking
down the sheep fence that started at the same place where we dumped
the trampoline. I got the wire cutters and began clipping the wire
holding the fence to the metal posts when my mom said she would do
that and I was to mow the area around on where the trampoline was,
since she couldn't supervise while on the mower. So I had to mow
there and have the bags on to catch grass, which meant I had to take
a trip to the grass-dumping pile every few passes. What made that
annoying was that the seat is messed up so that it not only stops
the mower when you get up and the blades are on like it's supposed
to, but also turns it off when it's just running. I found a large
cement block nearby and would put that on the seat when I got off it
to empty the bags. I don't think it's very good for the mower to be
turned on and off like that. After I finished that, I went to help
my mom and Andrea pull the metal posts out that held the sheep fence
up. They were freakin' hard to pull out and our neighbor saw us and
said he's been there so many times and it just sucks to have to do
that, but he found a much easier and faster way. He brought his
tractor over with a scooper on the front and hooked a chain to it
and had me wrap it around the bottom of a post and he would lift the
scooper and it would pull the post out. He's right, it was much
easier and faster.
So after that, I had to take the weed-eater and finish the garden,
which wasn't bad since there wasn't all that much to do. After that,
I had to weed-eat an area where my mom had moved some branches out
of the way and was now available to mow.
Andrea has been bugging me to go with her to get new computer
parts and she has the money. We ordered some through a guy and they
should be there tomorrow, but she wanted me to go with her to get a
new monitor today. She has a tiny desk and wants an LCD monitor
(flat panel) so it can fit in front of her keyboard instead of off
to the side. The thing is gonna be around $400, but she wants it
anyway. I had just finished backing everything up so I could
re-partition the hard drive into a 20 GB partition and a 40 GB one and
had just installed Windows 98 SE on the first, and Windows XP Pro on
the other (that one's for me, hehe). I was installing the network
interface card (NIC), which connects to the cable for the
internet, when I couldn't find the floppy disk with the drivers for
it. I looked everywhere, but couldn't find it. I decided I would
bring a disk with me to Circut City when we got her monitor and
download it from the website with one of their computers on display.
Well, I found out they close at 9, and it was already 9:30. I called
Wal-Mart and found that they have the monitors, too, so we went
there. Nick was working and I told him about the disk and he pulled
out a box of the same NIC that was defective and they were returning
it to the manufactuer so it didn't need the disk and he gave it to
me. I gave it to Andrea to hold onto along with the blank disk I
brought while I carried the monitor.
When we got home, we couldn't find the disk anywhere. Andrea
didn't put it anywhere, and I searched my car all over. I searched
the ground from my car to the house, but couldn't find it. It wasn't
in her purse, either. I finally decided to go back to Wal-Mart and
look on the parking lot where we walked, and look in the store or
lost-and-found. My dad said he'd come, too, since he needed to use the
internet. We listened to Muse on the way. At Wal-Mart, no luck
whatsoever. We got home and Andrea found our original one on top of
her computer upstairs and got on me for not finding it there. She
said it was an obvious place to look. Oh well, at least I got the
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