Working From Home

Today I am working from home. I am doing this because they are redoing our office and giving us some more room so we can get a couple more people. I am hoping that we get better cubes so I can think better but I am not sure how it will be yet.

Anyways, it is weird to be home all day. Zach made me coffee this morning. Two of the cats don't care at all and Harriet is happy that she can lay on the desk watch me work. I gave her a couple of goldfish crackers for lunch. I am pretty sure it was the best day ever for her. Now if I could just keep her from thinking that my laptop keyboard was a good napping place.

I have spent part of the day installing Windows 7 on my home computer. It isn't hard, just letting it run. The upgrade was very easy and even though I was upgrading from XP it kept a lot of my setting. Good job Microsoft! This makes me think it won't be so painful when I have to upgrade my work machine later this month. However, I know better since I have a Visual Studio installed on it.

Plan B

I forgot to mention this when I posted about Zach not going into the Army. I have decided to still get a new car. If Hoopty hadn't been such a cheap car to start with or if he hadn't been hit by a bus and ran over a pipe on the interstate requiring a new oil pan thingy put in I might kept him. However, I am ready for a car that doesn't feel like it is about to fall apart at any moment.

I am pretty sure I am going to get a used car, one that is just a couple years old. However, I have no idea how to do this at all. I bought Hoopty from a friend of mine and this is the only car I have ever owned. I don't really think I have ever been to a car lot before. Any advice? Anyone want to go test drive a car with me? Any car suggestions? I like Sedans, I am thinking about the Mazda 6 but that isn't really based on anything.