I am so smart! I am so smart! SMRT!

I finally got the connection to work and, drumroll please, transfer files! It finally started working around 12:30 am last night, I stayed up until about 1am testing the connection and transferring the most important files. I didn't turn off the computers last night out of fear that the connection would vanish if I turned them off. This wasn't entirely unreasonable. For some reason, my mouse drivers that I installed on Sunday were gone by Monday (still working on that problem, rebooting doesn't seem to fix it, go figure).

I'm still not entirely sure what was wrong. I ended up re-running the Network Connection Wizard about a dozen times. Renaming and rebooting both computers totally fixed it.

The side effect of all this is that I'm working off of five hours of sleep last night about five the night before. Oz keeps on waking me up at 5:30am, which is a bit of a bummer when you went to bed at 1:00am. I suspect I'll be grumpy all day, as a result

As I arrange the laptop, I am more and more happy with it. I couldn't really see the speed difference before now, but it's doing a great job of transferring files and running three other large programs with no delay. I shall have to forgive it for the Networking Nightmare and chalk that one up to Windows XP stupidity.

Dar Williams is also pretty good music. The e-bay auction was actually a lot of two cds, so I ended up with a Dar Williams cd in addition to the one I actually wanted. The cost was still cheaper than what Amazon (the only people stocking the cd that I could find) wanted to charge me. So, huzzah.

Back to file transferring.