Stress and Relief

It's been one of those days/nights.

A lot of traveling during the day has kept me from doing much online.  Then, this evening, the Internet service went down.  I am always amazed at how addicted we have become to this online world.

I was going to try to do something vaguely intelligent here tonight, but I'd simply drained.  I just spent the last hour or so fighting with one of my two remaining Windows systems.  I keep a fairly well-known internet security package running on that system, and it decided to crash prompted after doing an upgrade.  Therein followed entirely too much time wasted trying to troubleshoot on the system.  After that, entirely too much time wasted on trying to access the company's website, followed by not being able to find anything even vaguely like a decent trouble shooting system on the site...

I finally ended up deleting the entire cursed thing from the system, which then lead to me having to re-download it from the website, which lead to login problems, etc. etc.  Ad Nauseum, Ad Infinitum.

After much creative language usage, and threats to study the aerodynamics of a Toshiba laptop, the program is reinstalled.  I will say no more.

This is why I don't use Windows for anything important anymore.

The sad thing, about the only thing I use this system for anymore is to fiddle an Amiga emulator package I got not long ago.  I never got to play with the Amiga system back in the day, so I thought I'd give it a try now.  Of course, the emulator package seems to be mainly oriented towards games, though it does come with some cool stuff.  Including a copy of the very intriguing AmiKit package, which includes some nifty programs.  I find in most interesting to be browsing the web from inside a virtual computer system.

Right now I've got the emulator running various demos from its demoscene collection.  Some amazing stuff, considering most of these things were programmed a couple decades back.  Fascinating to watch, even relaxing at time...

How strange, though.  The machine itself is so stressful, yet the machine existing virtually within the machine is so...  opposite...