Came home from work to find a door tag from FedEx stating they’d tried to deliver the laptop, but no one was home. Gateway’s order status page miraculously says “Delivered” and gives a tracking number. Good timing. I went and picked it up from the Fed Ex depot, but was too tired to really play with it- long, long day on the range. Today I cleaned off the junk applications (no thank you, AOL) and installed all the other software I use regularly… re-did the start menu… picked up the Student version of Office 2003 (a good deal, as far as Micro$oft goes). Tabletpcbuzz.com regulars had problems with the tablet pen on this model; I haven’t run across any huge problems so far. Gateway is supposed to replace the pens in November, anyway.

In other news, a co-worker may be buying the truck from me… if he does, that gets me out of a monthly payment and insurance payment on a vehicle I drive once a month and gives me enough cash to pay off a credit card and this laptop. I should know by the end of the week.

No progress on the novel… no time lately.