Time Zone

OK...I finally changed the time on my computer so that mt posts will reflect the time I actually sent them instead of 12 hours earlier, the time back home. My computer, however, seems to know it is in Thailand. I brought some CD's with me of aerial footage of Israel. When I went to play them, the CD's knew they were being played somewhere away from home, and made me tell them before they would play. It said I could change the location 5 times. My first experience with this.

Speaking of computers, I replaced my laptop right before I came over. Stayed with XP, but upgraded to Office 2007. So far, seems like a pain. In Outlook and Word, and any other app that communicates with the printer, it seems, I get this memory usage surge every 10 seconds. The cursor pauses and turns to an hourglass for about a second. If I am typing at this time (which I am not good at), the letters stop appearing and they get spit out after the second is up. In Outlook, my email list blinks. If I am working on a contact, the contact window minimizes at that time. If I am typing in a form, the cursor is likely to change position on its own and I have to put it back to continue typing. The only way I have discovered to stop this is to disable all the instances of the process spoolsv.exe, which means I cannot print anything. VERY ANNOYING!! Any of you computer whizzes have a fix for this?

As you can see correctly now, I am up at 4 in the morning, which is OK, because I slept well from about 10 until now. I hope that my body can join my computer in knowing where it is by Monday, and the new class schedule.

Not to be confused with the class struggle, which I am reading about in Benjamin Wiker's book "10 Books that Screwed Up the World (and 5 others that didn't help)." Very interesting so far. A quick read. Obvious bias, of course, but one I share, for the most part. Ideas have consequences. I am halfway through and have read about Machiavelli, Descartes (a surprise there, since I was rather fond of some of his work, and biased toward mathematicians, especially French ones- but I never thought through to all the ramifications of his philosophy), Hobbes, Calvin (no, not really, that was a joke), Rousseau, Marx & Engels, Mill, Darwin, Nietzsche and Lenin. Now I'll have to go back and read some of the original works all the way through. The long march away from God, the Bible and morality in the modern world had its philosophical underpinnings in place hundreds of years ago. Of course, it is thousands if you want to go back to Eden, but this book starts with the 16th century.

I'm no Guy Noir, but I've heard that the answer to life's persistent questions is 42. (and don't forget your towel.)