It’s a Monday morning ramble, whee.

The weekend was quite nice. We had all kinds of plans to run errands on Saturday, but Dan wasn’t feeling well (sinus headache again), and I though that he would enjoy napping in the nice semidarkness of our bedroom rather than venturing out into the bright sun. So we bagged the errands for that day and instead just sort of hung out and noodled on computers. I started the reinstallation of Windows 98 on my desktop PC – I don’t use it for much anymore besides ripping MP3’s, burning CD’s, and transferring files to and from my MP3 player. I’m going to set it up as our guest computer (for those that don’t bring ther own and can’t hook into our wi-fi network). The reinstallation process was fairly easy, but tedious. Nothing like trying to dig through five-year-old floppies looking for sound drivers and hoping that they still work. Still, looks like I’ve got everything up and running again.

Sunday we did finally get out of the house, hitting Kohl’s to exchange some shorts (size on the sales tag didn’t match the size on the tag sewn inside), Lowe’s to check out their vertical blinds (for the living room), Wellspring (aka Whole Foods Market) for coffee and some excellent fresh-ground hamburger, and Lowes Foods for the usual weekly groceries. Oh, and Eckerd, for my shiny new prescription of Protonix. Holy crap! That stuff is expensive. Even with $50 covered by insurance, it still cost me $60. I can’t afford that every month, so I need to either look for alternatives or find a cheaper source. Or maybe only take it as needed, I dunno. Suggestions are welcome.

So today I have to putter around work, waiting for materials to come in so I can run a reaction Tuesday or Wednesday. Not too bad, gives me time to write in my LJ (obviously) and make further inquiries with lawyers about what is necessary to establish a civil union in the state of North Carolina (a combination of Powers of Attorney, estate planning, and other contracts, as near as I can tell). Oh, and I need to go to Homo Depot at lunch and put in the order for vertical blinds – they have what we wanted, and Lowe’s didn’t. Only thing that sucks is that it’s going to take three weeks to come in, but we hope to have them up before Memorial Day. It’ll be nice to have a bit more privacy and it should cut down the A/C bills, too.

Oh yeah – I need to set the Tivo to record Good Morning America tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up, mirkowuff!

Wednesday we’re having the Gang over for games and pizza, a last-minute party thing before Dan goes in for his surgery. He’s worried about it, but I think things will be so much better afterwards (well, after the recovery period anyway) that it will all be worth it.

Well, I’m off to attempt to be useful…