E-D-U-E-R-F-N-E-D-A-H-C-S!!!

[captainsblog]

(If you need help translating that, this should provide the necessary pleh!)

As we all know, payback is a bitch. I got to see the giving end of it earlier today in the midst of my day in Rachacha.

Remember the closing on my to-do list which I had to prepare for? That was 1:00 today. Everything went fine, except for the little matter of a three-to-four-hundred dollar issue (out of a transaction exceeding $150K) which my client and said client's buyer were totally at odds about. They went at it, in between all the document signings involving every other aspect of the deal, and still, nothing was resolved by the time the bank lawyer sent the closing checks out to be prepared.  I proposed a reasonable compromise, which everybody ultimately went for, but while I waited, with both clients seething in my presence, I remembered that my on-street parking time was about to expire, so I headed down to feed the meter.

You know where this is going, right? Actually, you don't. When I got down there, there was, in fact,  no ticket, but there was a large contingent of RPD cops at the corner half a block up the road from where I'd parked.  I paid little heed and, after depositing my late-day coffee change into the meter, returned to the lawyers' offices and claimed my proceeds checks.

Moments later, back out on the street, I saw the other party's lawyer heading toward me from the direction of all the flashing lights.  They'd been called there on account of an accident, which must have occurred during our closing, which clipped the left side of a car parked on the street.

His difficult client's car, that is.

What are the odds?

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I then repeated this story, with more than a little glee, at my next two stops before heading home. I was looking forward to solving one of our other problems from that weekend of roided-out to-do lists: it turns out we'd already purchased, fully and legally, a program which included a full, serial-numbered, Vista-compatible version of the Adobe photo program that died on Eleanor's computer over the weekend.

Disk in hand, I set out to install it after feeding all the aminals, and....

Her computer no longer recognized that it had a CD/DVD drive.

I fiddled with Device Manager. Windows would not download new drivers because, far as Control Panel was concerned, they were there. Toshiba, the manufacturer, tried selling us an "automatic driver update" proggie but, when I opted for manual downloads, claimed there were none available for her laptop.  I proceeded to start running anti-malware stuff to see if this (and possibly the weekend's Abodedeath) might be side effects of some sort of infestation, and in the meantime I downloaded a "noCD.reg" file from Toshiba that supposedly fixles this sort of shizzle.

Meanwhile, I just marveled at a high-capacity drive shitting the bed at the very second we need it most for an update of a vital piece of software.

What are the odds?

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While I futzed with all of the above, I heard Eleanor, recently arrived home, in the kitchen, emptying the dishwasher- into the dishdrainer on top of the mechanical machine.

I'd worried about this, too. The old beast (roughly seven years old) had been making some nasty buzzy-thing noises during the wash cycle before I left for the closing, and it ended, after I left, with lots more noise and lots less clean.  We're hoping a service call will fix it....

As, just now, that free but deeply-Internet-hidden .reg file just restored Eleanor's D: drive.  Adobe is installing as we speak, serial number and all.

What are the odds? Better than they were half an hour ago, that's what:)

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[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

Apparently the odds are better than you think! Glad you got the computer off of life support. Let's hope the dishwasher can be saved as well! :D