I love DOS

One of our vendors just stopped by my office. She's using one of our microscopes to demonstrate some of the advanced camera functions to another prof who is interested in buying one. They got stuck, however, in that the camera software wouldn't allow them to create a new profile and activate the feature that they want to use, and asked me if I would give them administrator access to the computer so that they could change the file.

I told them that I wouldn't, but also that if they removed 'Read Only" status from the .INI file, it'd do what they want.

Colleen (the vendor) says it's the simplest security she's ever seen used for the camera software, and we both agree that it's an old enough trick nobody's going to think of it as the first idea.

Drywall

The drywall in Teeka's shop is moving along. All I have left to do is part of the wall and ceiling above the door (and yes, I left the hammer hanging there so that it can fall on my head tomorrow). I may wind up trimming part of the ceiling drywall back to the rafter - we put it up as a full sheet figuring on using the other 2x4s we put in to support the wall to support the drywall, but I think I want to screw it into the rafter as well.

I would have gone farther, but I tripped over the edge of the driveway and my knee hurts. At the house edge of the driveway there is an abrupt ramp down to the sidewalk, and I think one of these days I'm going to get some line marking paint and draw a line down the top of it to remind me that it's there, because this isn't the first time I've fallen off of it.