Phew. I’ve had an… interesting few days. They have been spent almost exclusively in front of the computer. But not in a good, fun way. No, in a frustrating, hard way. I decided that Windows 7 was just not going to cut it for me. I just couldn’t get it to work as I wanted it. I have had 10+ years on XP and I don’t like change. And a lot of the new features of Windows 7 where not good for my eyesight issues. So I was really rather unhappy with it. I wanted my XP back. But XP does not support 16 gigabytes of RAM as is in my new supercomputer (a computer that was bought very much because I wanted to try out Windows 7… oops).

So XP can’t use all that memory. UNLESS. You get the 64 bit version of XP. Which is completely obsolete and inferior. And so naturally I went and got that. It cost a lot. You can’t buy it in the shops anymore. It cost twice what Windows 7 cost me. So that’s kinda stupid. I have spent a lot of money on this computer and now on XP Pro 64 Bit Edition. And I have spent A LOT of time getting it to work right.

Mainy the problem was my SSD drive. A super cool and fast thing, but it doesn’t work well with XP. I spent a couple of days working almost nonstop to get it to work. Just a couple of food and Star Trek / Doctor Who breaks. While the disk drives formatted. And a little pissing about on Facebook.

Anyway, this is all terribly boring I know. The short story is: I deleted Windows 7 and am now running Windows XP Professional 64 Bit Edition. And very pleased with it I am. Now I have to restore everything once again, get all my programs and files back. And then it should be smooth sailing. Hopefully.

I did manage yesterday to go and spend some time with the goats. And that was really good for my mental health. Wiped the slate clean and all the troubles away. With the sweet goats. Good times in the warm weather.

Magnethe’s boy is the little prince of the hill now. He’s very sweet. I think the castration has left him a little calmer than before. Or maybe it’s just because he doesn’t have four other boys around to get into trouble with. But it seems to me that he’s happier now to just stand still and be scratched. And if I pick him up he’ll sit in my lap and enjoy the scratchies. Before he used to be very quick about jumping up and running around. He’s still got a nice, faint buck smell though. And it probably won’t be too long before he starts bossing the old ladies around.

Now back to the computer work!

Whatever time we are given is always too short.

And now there is no time left for four of the goat boys at the playground. There were two of the five left when I got to the there yesterday. Magnethe’s dark one and Bandit’s little brother. And just when I was getting ready to leave Kurt showed up to collect Lil Bro. I’m glad I got to say goodbye to him. Unlike Bandit and Magnethe’s other two boys. And I’m glad he will be going to Kurt’s place. He should have a very nice life there. A big place with lots of grass and animals. Kurt told me that he has four other kids of the same size right now. So there will be a lot of playing around there. And my secret wish is for Lil Bro and Soft Ice to get together and make goat babies, in due time. That would be sweet. To carry on Vanilje’s genes. I can always hope.

A video of Lil Bro’s goodbye: youtube.com/watch?v=QXpAf267-2A. Poor little guy being carried away from mommy and then put in a scary van. But it’s a short drive to Kurt’s place. By now I’m sure he’s all settled in and happy. It was sad too to hear Mio baahing for her babies. Not knowing that this time none of them would be coming back. So it goes. It makes me sad to think about it, but I can’t do anything. And I know she will be happy again soon. So it does go.

Also a last video of Bandit: youtube.com/watch?v=d9NBVq7GLT8. I will really miss that little guy. He started out as the smallest and most timid little boy but he grew a lot, maybe not as much in size as in spirit and heart. I really will miss him.

Other than that my mind is mostly filled with various computer problems and decisions. For my parents’ computer and my own. But that’s too boring to think about. So that’s all.