Simulating normalcy

Since I do technically still have internet access via my laptop, I've decided that I'm going to attempt to update my journal on a daily basis. The fact that I've installed Firefox on this machine will make that somewhat easier; the browser has a built-in spell-checker and I am a horrible speller. On any given occasion, I can remember owning up to three dictionaries (plus a thesaurus and a French to English translation book). Through some of the errors that have slipped through on other entries, I am certain, it should come as no surprise that I really can't spell for shit. However, given the choice, I'll take the British spellings over the American versions any day. "Colour" just looks more appealing than "color."

I just find myself incredibly frustrated about my desktop computer being out of commission. For one thing I had hoped to manage daily entries for 2009, that plan being out the window with the loss of the 1^st and the 3^rd already. Suffice it to say that OTR entries and anything lengthy are off the table for the moment (including my bitchfest - ahem, review - of 2008). I prefer to type up such things in a proper word processor and then copy and paste them into the journal, despite the fact that I type in HTML as I write them.

I am so sick of setbacks. I don't make a great deal of money, but what I can scrape together, I want to use to do things that not only I enjoy but may have a slim change at leading towards a better life. Instead, I get punched in the wallet to undo the damage done by some fuckhead criminal who somehow can't get a job as a legitimate coder and instead resorts to writing malware. I guess it just really bothers me too that since I built my desktop PC, I wasn't able to fix it once something went wrong.

Hopefully this will pass quickly. If nothing else, without the distration of my computer, I now have more time to catch up on chores and socialising.