Memo to McDonald's: Doesn't chicken and bacon in a salad defeat the purpose of a salad? Do you have some sort of conspiracy going with doctors, medical companies, or diet plan hucksters? Ah skip it. I'll still never set foot in a McDonald's ever again.

And does everything have to have an adjective? Zesty sausage, golden hash browns, fluffy hotcakes...

I just have to say that missleigh's boyfriend, Ken, is the man. They came over last night and he fixed my CD-RW drive, my digital camera issues, and his previous suggestion fixed a problem with my PC locking up. When I took my PC to work to upgrade the RAM, clean the hard drive, and install Windows XP, Dean must have had to unplug the CD-RW to get to the RAM. Well, he didn't plug it back in. Hmmm, no wonder the system didn't even see it! Oh, you best believe he's gonna get some of that harrassment thrown back his way. His last comment was that perhaps I should become Amish since I had such bad luck with electronics. As if.

The digital camera just required a driver (I think), though I'd been through that before. I followed the instructions on the website and got frustrated because it still wasn't working. We didn't get the scanner fixed, though. The drivers on the HP site were not "digitally signed," or whatever, and Ken didn't want to risk screwing up my system. Just installing the software with the old drivers screwed it up before causing me to have to go into safe mode and delete them. That scared the hell out of me.