Actually, it isn’t just her, that Peter dude is on my list as well.

I had to get home early today so I could FedEx Mariko her new cell phone. She bought a pair on the family plan, one for her and one for Peter. She got a Razr, very same phone that I’ve wanted and that everyone but me is getting.

Then I tried to fix her dumb Dell laptop. Buy a Mac, I said, but does she listen? I wasted close to an hour on Dell’s web site only to get a useless email suggestion back. Get a new power adapter they said. Well, in my question I said I JUST GOT A NEW POWER ADAPTER. I called Dell support only to encounter a stupid voice recognition system that had me enter a 10-digit number several times only to decide to HANG UP ON ME. I gave up.

Then, when I was about to eat dinner, Mariko sent me a fax that needed Peter’s signature. Actually, it was an eight page fax that needed his signature on each page. Since the dude goes to sleep at 9PM and I have obligations until 9 or 10PM for the next couple of days, I had to delay eating to get the papers printed and signed. One of the pages was legal size so that meant I had to head back to Kinko’s to print it out. I got up to the Harrises in time to get Peter to sign it and off he was to bed. Off I was to eat dinner.

Oh, and I spent a lot of time getting the web server working, staying up until 1AM last night and then working on it early this morning. Come to think of it, Mariko’s friends are a large pain in my ass, too.

So sometimes you get these emails that say, “XXX has YYY vulnerability” and you have to scramble to see if you can update that program. And sometimes fixing that program breaks other things and you start getting emails from your sister’s friends saying, “SUPEREGGPLANT IS DOWN, FIX IT NOW.” I was up late last night trying to fix it before giving up to get some sleep so I wouldn’t be a zombie at work. Well, it’s kind of working now.