“The RoseBouquet”

I admit I was rather discouraged and filled with self-pity on Friday. Besides the stuffed head and runny nose, I didn’t seem to be making any headway with setting up the computers at the office. I brought two of them home that afternoon, and spent the better part of Saturday trying to take Games files off of the one for the previous owners - as I had promised. Finally I got all but one file that was too big, onto 14 floppy disks.

But when I tried them in another computer some were blank, and one was a virus!

I did some serious praying about all this on Sunday when I was stuck at home.

Yesterday, back at the office I tried again with another Linux Live CD called FeatherLinux, and was able to access the files and upload them via FTP to one of my sites, and later download them, and burn them to a CD. Complete. Thank You, Lord!

This morning I was able to install Mandrake 9.1 on that computer and it is working nicely except it doesn’t seem to know where my sound is. I feel much encouraged!

This is a tough stage to go through, and I’m learning a lot about operating systems, and what works and what does not work, Sticking to my schedule seems easier this week too. I’m still crowding my usual full-time job into afternoons and evenings, but I feel like I’m creeping forward in the mornings towards this new business start.

Just think how smart people will think I am when I show them how to solve these problems.