boy do i feel dumb!

[elvendoll]

after messing with my grandfather's computer for just over an hour trying to make the modem work - and in the meanwhile, reinstalling the drivers twice, changing its COM port (which also involved moving over the serial port's com port in the BIOS), and reinstalling the communications & network components just to be on the safe side, the whole problem was that i was not watching where i was plugging the line into & inserting it into the 'phone' and not 'line' jack!
how's that for stupidity?!
and just confirms that typing and clicking is the most i can really do with my hands!
*sigh*
but now i am online from downstairs.
i downloaded AIM cuz bill said he'd be online later, but he's not... so i'm debating being really cutesy and starting downloading pix of me & my sisters onto the computer for him, or just going to bed...
common sense is really calling out 'bed' though : )
only part of me that doesn't want to go to sleep is the one thats both really thirsty and too lazy to go upstairs to get somehting to drink.
sadly, that whole process is in some ways my life in a nutshell - i start wanting to do somehting, procrastinate doing it, by also not allow myself to move on until i've done it. how is that for counterproductivity? huh? huh? huh?

so yeah, i should prolly just go to sleep now.
...here's hoping for better dreams tonight!