Darn Computers

Despite someone online who seemed to think that unless you were making multiple millions of dollars per year, you can't possibly be "well off," and that anyone else was obviously a pauper, I think I'm pretty well off. I have a good job with excellent health insurance, own my home, could pay off the mortgage if I had to do so and still have more than $1 million in my 401(k) account, and am technically considered economically "upper class" where I live, because my income puts me in the bottom of the upper quartile. No, I'm not a multi-millionaire, but I sometime wonder if those people are leveraged to the hilt and are teetering on bankruptcy. I live a pretty comfortable upper-middle-class existence.

The Day Jobbe is important, of course, so I try not to get too grumpy when work gets intense, as it has been of late. It does mean that we have work to do and we're not under threat of job reductions.

Meanwhile, my new computer keeps throwing more updates at me. You'd think it would have had enough by now, but no, every day there seems to be something else. I also still have to keep telling it variations of "No, I don't want you to install lots of marketing software so you can try and extract more money from me."

I hope eventually I will have enough time and energy to figure out why the computer seems to know that the 15 TB network hard drive is out there, but won't let me map it to the new machine.