Glow in the dark

Bob's x-rays came out fine. I asked him what that meant, since he was still in pain, and he said it meant that the stone was just too small to see on an x-ray, but at least it wasn't something else, like a tumor, which was, I guess, what they were checking for. [Every time I hear that word, I think about Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop, with his stress headache, and the little boy suggesting it might be a tumor, and Arnold responding, "It's not a tumah!"]

The pain is gone now, I think, which, again, just means that the stone has moved somewhere else where it isn't hurting him, and we can only hope that it stays there, wherever it is.

I came in to work this morning, and had a new computer! An additional computer. I now have a Mac and a PC, and three monitors! It's just slightly claustrophobic . . . I feel, I don't know, like . . . I don't know what. Like one of those security guards surrounded by monitors, maybe. Cello says I'm going to start glowing in the dark soon.

I've always wanted to have a PC at my desk in addition to the Mac, because when I'm building a website there are invariably things that don't work exactly right on both platforms, and I end up walking down to the conference room PC to look at something, then going back down the hall to my office, changing some little thing, walking back down to the conference room to see if it fixed it, finding that it didn't, walking back down the hall to my office . . .

What really spurred the purchase, though, was the fact that I'm going to need to work on some software that only runs on PCs. In a different company, I'm sure that would mean moving me from the Mac to a PC exclusively, but the guys here are cool, and in addition (or because of?), they use Macs, too. So I can keep the Mac to use most of the time, and have the PC for when I need it.

They originally bought a switch so I could use one keyboard and one monitor for both the Mac and the PC (I actually have two monitors for the Mac, we hoped that the PC could share the secondary monitor), but it turned out that it wouldn't work, so they hooked up the Mac's second monitor to the PC. Which was okay, but I kept opening up applications and finding that the last time I used them, the Mac had two monitors, so it thought that I still had two monitors, and the stuff I needed to use was off in the twilight zone somewhere. (And yes, we did try changing things around in the Monitors Control Panel, but for some reason, that didn't work.)

So Eugene ended up bringing in another monitor for me and hooking it up directly to the PC, so now I have three--two on the Mac and one on the PC. Which should be interesting when one of our clients comes in who was amazed by the fact that I had two monitors.

So today has been interesting. Tomorrow should be interesting, too--we're going to the State Fair. The Missouri State Fair. Bob's there today, actually; he went down with John. Bob loves the fair. I enjoy it, too, but it's always so incredibly hot that I spend most of the time wishing for air conditioning. It shouldn't be too bad this time, though; Bob wants to go down fairly early, before it gets too hot. And I'm expecting it to be less grueling for me since I've been walking every night after work--part of the fatigue factor is the heat, and part of it is just tiredness from walking so much. It will be interesting to see, anyway.

We don't ever ride anything, we just go to the animal exhibits (Bob especially likes the pigs) and the craft and food exhibits, and walk down the midway so Bob can do the ring toss and win a bunch of knives (he's very good at it), eat a bunch of junk, and then drive home. It should be a good day.