Dammit

Frustration with my work computer today.

I'm trying to download the pictures on my crappy old digital camera. The software included doesn't work on this OS (Windows NT), so I called the help desk and they suggested just plugging it into the console--the computer would "sense" the camera and there would be a whole new drive. Well, that ain't happening. I can't access the pictures on my new laptop either--the camera uses a parallel port cord thingy and I need a USB. DAMN. All I want are these stupid pictures and I promise I won't use the damn camera again!

Does anyone have an old (light) monitor I can borrow for a day, just so I can access my old hard drive and download these pictures? (And so I can access the other stuff on my hard drive)

Also, I'm trying to re-read Eternity and I can't open. MS Word keeps freezing or slowing waaaay down, or syaing "Not enough memory." Very frustrating. It's a bloody word document; it shouldn't be slowing things down like this.

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My aunt Clarissa is in town. She's my other godmother (my aunt Jenny, who visited a couple of weeks ago, is the first one) and the second oldest of my dad's sisters. Since she's my godmother and I am sort of her namesake (Clara and Clarissa are both family names) I always sort of identified with her, because when I was a kid my grandmother had a picture of her as a kid that I thought was me (with long skinny braids, just the way I always wore my hair). When I told my mother this a while ago she sniffed "you're much prettier than she is." She is tall and skinny and angular with blonde (now grey) hair, and a very big smile. We Greens have ginormous smiles. The Osmonds have nothing on us.

My dad has six brothers and sisters--three boys and four girls. In order--Chippy, Metty, Barty, Sissy, Crissy, Casey, Suzy.