This Week in a Nutshell

My entire week was messed up by a very painful and prolonged gallbladder attack. I must have stones or something. It hurt like hell; the pain went straight through me like someone was stabbing me from my upper right abdomen to my shoulder blade.

I stopped eating for a day, I've only had breads and some soup since, and I've taken antihistamine in both liquid and pill form. Sleep has also proven difficult. Although last night felt back to normal. I will probably avoid anything "bad" for a good long time.

I already have been trying to avoid foods that are too hot, (and taking acid-reducers) and watching my sugar intake. I don't want to complain too much, but if too many more foods get edited out of my diet, I'll be eating like a horse. (oatmeal, carrots, maybe the occasional apple)

The Next Best Thing

I have yet to understand how a laptop that runs perfectly with Windows 98 SE has no sound card functions with Windows 2000. I went online to research this phenomenon, and as it turns out, it is not an altogether uncommon occurance. Apparently, the soundcards used in most laptops, of this previous generation to which mine belongs, are condidered 'barely soundcards' and 'soundcards in name alone'. The fact that some people are able to edit their BIOS to make the computer seek the soundcard capabilities on AUTO is nothing short of a minor miracle.

So, I either have to;

a.) Update my BIOS to accommodate this,
b.) Reinsert my factory discs, and reinstall the truly compatible software,
c.) Buy a new Soundcard that would fit into the same socket as my ethernet card
(and choose either sound or multi-media internet?)

Obviously choice c. isn't happening.


[I went with choice b. I bought a XP upgrade, and reinstalled everything. and upgraded my RAM which I've been meaning to do for ages.]