State of the laptop

The good news is the laptop is not hosed. I can get all my files off of it, and plan to do so. Yesterday was back-up day and I'm kicking myself for not doing it that morning because then there was the possibility I could have just done a restore. Sigh. Hindsight is 20/20.

The bad news is that I have picked up a fairly nasty virus that is rather difficult to get rid of. The options right now are a) wipe and reinstall or b) get a new laptop. Since I've been having problems with this laptop anyway (power connecter is loose, no wireless connection any more, throwing random hardware errors, etc.) it looks like I will be getting a new laptop. I'll be using student loan money for it, since I need the laptop to do school work/thesis work.

I was considering getting a new laptop anyway. Looks like my time-table got moved up a bit. That's all. Sigh...

Counting is important

Dear committee member,

The tentative name of my thesis work is the Ten Lakes Study. There is only data for eight lakes from last year. It is reasonable for me to assume that you missed two for some reason (ran out of time, equipment problems, etc). When I ask you about it, your response should not have been "There are ten lakes in the study?"

TEN LAKE STUDY. Why the hell would we call it that if there were only eight lakes?

No love,
Tsaiko