...sent to earth in a rocket ship, much like baby Moses...

Shit, now my laptop is hosed.

On Monday, I decided that it might be nice to watch a DVD on my laptop (wired to the TV).  I also decided that it would be easier to do this with a wireless keyboard so I could control the DVD from afar, just like you can a real DVD player.  I purchased the keyboard and mouse and attached them.  The mouse didn't work, so I installed the driver for it.  

Big mistake.  The computer wouldn't boot up.  At all.  Not into safe mode, not with a rescue disk, no way, no how.  I had to REINSTALL WINDOWS 2000 because this driver was so foul.  There's some irony here:  I bought a Memorex branded keyboard/mouse wireless thing instead of the Logitech because I've had nothing but trouble with this laptop and Logitech mice (and I much prefer Logitech mice, feel wise).  And it's worse, far worse, than just having the freaking mouse not work.

Anyway, I was not amused.  So many things are broken on this machine now.  Windows decided to swap the names of my second drive partition and the CD drive, breaking all manner of paths so nothing will start up right.  Also, I set up my user name the same as before, but because it also put Windows on a different drive partition, it didn't use any of my settings.  I figured out how to override that one, just by luck because it wasn't simple, but it broke many subtle things.  For instance, all my fonts don't appear in applications, which is a real ass pain.

OK, enough about Windows.

Well, we're getting a new manager at work.  I think that's a good thing.  There's also a rumor that we are kicking all the vendors out of the building to reclaim the space for employees.  That's good in some ways, but having the vendors not on site is a disadvantage.

I heard this quote on public radio:  "Superman was sent to earth in a rocket ship, much like the baby Moses"  HUH?  I think they were talking about stealth Christianity in our culture, but I'm not sure.  This guy, clearly, was talking about superheroes, but...still.  That's a bizarre thing to say for so many reasons.