Linda was off to the bakery again this morning, but not as early as yesterday.  She had a mid-afternoon meeting which put her return trip at the worst of the evening rush hour.  She is still under the weather, so the last two days have definitely been more work then fun.

I was disgusted enough with my experience yesterday trying to download and install the Adobe Creative Cloud  Desktop app (ACCD) that I decided not to work on my computers this morning.  I had, however, left my new ASUS laptop on all night in the hope that the ACCD app would finish downloading and install correctly.  Sometimes you have to just step away so I started a load of laundry and made a list errands.  Sometimes the best way to step away is to literally get out of the house (or bus) and since errands have a purpose, and provide a sense of accomplishment, they are always good therapy.  I got the laundry out of the dryer and left just after noon.  I got back around 4 PM with bags full of essential but inexpensive stuff; think “TP” and you will have the right idea.

While I was out I got Mike (W8XH) on the S. Lyon 2 meter ham radio repeater and arranged for him to help me with my e-mail issues on my new laptop.  I started another load of laundry when I got home and then checked on my computer.  ACCD had finished installing correctly!  I have no idea how long it took; the progress bar did not move when I sat and watched it.  I started up my old laptop to check e-mail and discovered that we appeared to have a very slow Internet connection.  All of my online programs worked fine yesterday (except the ACCD installation), and they were all working today, but not very fast.  The difficulty I had installing ACCD may have been an Internet connection issue rather than an Adobe issue, but I will never know.  We have an AT&T High Speed Internet (HSI) landline.  The only thing slower is dial-up.

ACCD was open and showed me a list of apps.  Most of the apps had a “Try” button, which is an attempt on Adobe’s part to inflate our monthly bill to gigantic proportions.  Lightroom (Lr) and Photoshop (Ps), however, had “Install” buttons, a good sign that Adobe had the correct details for our ACC account.  I clicked the Install button for Lightroom and went upstairs.  I was feeling progressively worse through the day and after Linda called with her ETA I decided to take a nap.

Linda reheated the leftover pasta from Sunday’s dinner.  After dinner I checked on the progress of the Lightroom download/install.  It was done and showed the status as “Up To Date”.  Today was turning out to be a good day, so I clicked Install for Photoshop, finished editing some blog posts, answered a few e-mails, and turned off my old computer.  With no other devices trying to use our Internet connection I was optimistic that I will find it downloaded and installed in the morning.  Linda tried to install Microsoft Security Essentials on her laptop earlier today and suddenly had programs she did ask for or authorize as best she was aware.  Thanks Microsoft.  Attempting to remove them brought up additional vendor dialog boxes so we let it be for now.  We were both too tired and feeling to poorly to think carefully or do online research to figure out what was going on.  With any luck Mike can help us with this on Thursday.