It's been awhile but tonight I booted up my parent's new machine and installed much of the software I said I was going to install in my previous post.

I am a bit concerned that the interface to Windows 7 is so significantly different from XP that my parents will be lost (at least for a short while). Since I don't run Windows I was very surprised at what looks like a fairly radical shift in some of the design (although there are some familiar elements). Hopefully the software I have chosen to place on their computer will just work. My confidence level (based entirely on past experience) is currently very low. I was hedging on purchasing a gotomypc.com subscription but I now think it wil be very useful. Especially for the short term. Once the machine is up and running at my parent's home I assume Dell support will be able to take over from there.

Attended the L.A. Boat Show with some friends today. It was surprisingly small. I recall attending a boat show years ago, in Dallas (at Market Hall), and it was enormous. This boat show didn't even seem like half the size of that boat show.

I wasn't interested in a boat, but I do have a friend who has a boat and was looking to purchase some accessories for it. Also they had lots of booths on houseboats and houseboating on lakes here in California. I've been on a houseboat on Lake Shasta several times and it is very fun. I may go with them up to Lake Shasta if my work schedule allows it.

Also at the convention center was HempCon. I don't have much to say about that.