I'm just happy that Christmas shopping is not something I ever have to deal with. (And that's why I avoid being around my boyfriend near the holidays ... he always wants to go Christmas shopping -- and drags me into jewelry stores -- arrrrrgh!! When all I really want are power tools.) I just get him something online (because his family does celebrate the holiday) after he tells me exactly what it is he wants (I do not like guessing games).
Today, I spent the entire day repairing a neighbor's laptop. It was fairly easy (as it turned out IE had gorked the machine by creating ... ready for this?? .... a 67 Gigabyte TMP file while trying to install an update on her machine), but I did uninstall IE from the machine and installed Firefox.
It wasn't the repair that took the time, it was all the questions she had afterword. Lots of things that she wasn't able to get working properly because the people who set it all up for her never really showed her how.
