Monthly Archives: September 2012

Oh my GOD, Windows 7 – Are You Crazy? (Or: I Am Now an Administrator)

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I recently purchased a new computer that came with Windows 7 and started installing my software. All of a sudden from one of those programs I got the message that I had to have administrator rights to run it. Say what?

I went into the Control Panel and attempted to change my User Account to Administrator. Nothing. Every time I went back in it said Standard again. So how the hell was I supposed to make myself an Administrator when I wasn’t an Administrator to start with? (Not to mention, why wasn’t the first user account I created the Administrator in the first place?)

I began searching. There must have been dozens of forums where people had asked the same question – how do I make myself an Administrator in Windows 7? Continue reading →

Coming halfway back to life

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I have been really, really sick.

At the end of April my voice became entirely bizarre. I sounded like Mickey Mouse – a high, hooting tone. I didn’t have a chance to do anything about it, though.

The next day I was hit with ischemic colitis. That’s like having a stroke in your large intestine. For most of five days I was flat on my back in the hospital getting IV antibiotics, slugs of morphine on a regular basis, and being fed a liquid diet. When I got out, I was exhausted and had almost no strength.

They told me 6-10 weeks is the general recovery time. Others have since told me different. My joints hurt a lot – this has turned out to be bursitis brought on, apparently, by being given too much fluid via IV. (I came home weighing 12 pounds more than when I went in, and peed it all away in three days.) Continue reading →