Laptop Gloom and Sayers Cheer

Well I've found that my new laptop has a fundamental flaw. There seems to be a conflict between the sound card and the wireless card, which also has something to do with this being 64 bit Vista. I spent a really pleasant hour with tech support Friday, reinstalling drivers here, there and everywhere with no luck. So they're sending me a box so I can send the laptop back to them for repair. I wonder whether or not it will be fixed. It's not a huge problem. It's just that every few mintues my sound will skip or stutter if I'm listening to music or watching a video. It doesn't matter whether I'm listening to streaming audio, or audio saved to the harddrive. The defining factor seems to be whether I have the wireless on or off.

In more cheerful news I'm on to another Sayers book 'Have his Carcase' which doesn't fail in the 'whodunnit' or the 'makes me lol' categories.

"Didn't it ever occur to you that a horse is made to R, U, N, run, and cover a given distance in a given time. Did you never have a bob on the Derby? Wretched girl - wait till we are married. You shall fall off a horse every day till you learn to sit on it."

Harriet was silent. She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. she knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of utter inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But how she realised that there was something god-like about itm. He could control a horse.