Back at my parents' house. I seemed to have forgotten how cold they keep it here. They've installed all manner of sneaky software on their computers, and I'm cleaning it up as I write this.

Here's the issue they're having with the desktop I'm working on now: "It runs very well, and then the fan speeds up and makes a loud noise, and then it runs slowly until we restart it."
My instincts tell me that it's overheating and then running at half ("capacity??" half speed) or something like that as a self-defense thing. I reproduced the issue while keeping the performance monitor open. As it turns out, the processor usage was jumping to 100% about every 3 seconds. I switched to processes and found the thing that was causing it. Then I turned off the computer for a while, turned it back on, and killed the process that was using all the cpu. It was called "toolbar updater" or something like that. The issue has not occurred since, and I'm still waiting. If it doesn't happen, I'll figure out whatever that program is and get rid of it.

I'm all proud of myself. X) This was a pretty easy fix.

I sat next to this girl on the plane to here. She had a really winning smile and made fascinating conversation. In a nice way it really made me glad that I have Chowon, because I didn't have to wonder if I could ever be in a relationship with someone beautiful and fascinating.

LeTU spams my inbox with end-of-course evaluations, and if that isn't enough they spam me with confirmations when I finally finish the surveys.

"Welcome back!"