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Correction: Thanks to @apexgrodd for helping to identify the device in the photo.

H632 General Purpose Digital Computer System (Honeywell Information Systems, Inc.) 1968

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HP-150 (1983)

2018 - Initiative of 300 Hollywood women called “Time’s Up” announced to fight sexual harassment

January 20 Well, the end of my daily journaling was a little precipitous, I'll admit, but it was a combination of suddenly getting busy, having a lot of trouble with the new computer, and most of my busy stuff not being particularly interesting. However, today is a historic day, so I feel like I really ought to say something about it. I am still as lazy as ever, though, so I'm not going to bother counting how many days I missed. I was able to watch the Inauguration on TV for the first time in my adult memory, because the Xbox plays YouTube and the Biden Inauguration Committee had a dedicated stream with two of the Capitol tour guides excitingly narrating before and after the ceremony. It was actually pretty cute, because they were so eager to tell everybody about all the art and history, as well as crowing about the special camera angles that nobody else got to use, like of the doors to the Senate chambers. The last inauguration I watched was in 2012 because I had no desire to rub salt in my own wounds, but it looked very different this year, sparse and with an empty mall full of flags where a cheering crowd ought to be. We only live a few hours from DC, and I wonder if, were it not for COVID, we'd have gone to see it. I would love to watch the Inauguration of a good president, but it's been kind of scary this past week and nobody was sure if there was going to be something bad happening. I let the kiddo take an hour off school this morning so he could watch with me, which he was very pleased about. I explained the special historic significance of Kamala Harris, because he is very excited about seeing historic events. I also told him that this was not the first inauguration we watched together, but that he was barely three for the last one and probably doesn't remember. He got a little bored at points, but tbh so did I, and he didn't have the offsetting relief of getting to feel bored about politics. "This is something I have seen before, this is nothing new" is suddenly enormously reassuring after having a president for whom norms were not a thing. Also the poet was very good and Lady Gaga didn't butcher the national anthem and nobody, you know, went crazy and tried to overrun the Capitol again, so it was a very good inauguration and I liked it. Would've been nice if Justice Sotomayor could've done a few more practice runs on the pronunciation of "Kamala," but it's still legal. After the inauguration I decided it was time to get some tech support for my computer. We have been back in VA for about a week now and the new computer's problems are becoming more acute. It was freezing once every few days, now it can do it a couple of times in a day. And freezing is annoying, but these are unrecoverable freezes, where you can't open the Task Manager and kill the problem, but you just have to power down and back up, and lose whatever you didn't save. It sucks. Anyway, long story short, it turned into a three hour tech support chat wherein I wiped all the programs off the new computer and it did not fix the problem. I am very disappointed, but more tech support will have to wait until tomorrow. The computer is only like three weeks old! I should've known that fifteen years was not long enough for HP to get off its bullshit. Because that took so long, I was only able to do one of the shops I lined up for today. I haven't been mystery shopping in months, but the end of month incentives are super good this month and I will take 30 bucks to spend half an hour in a grocery store any day of the week, especially a high-end one that is actually clean. I got the other one rescheduled for tomorrow at least, so I'm not in trouble. Husband cooked dinner while I was gone because he is awesome. He's back to teaching and has also gotten his editorial comments back for the first chapter of his book, in which he has been encouraged to expand on the topic of his subject's freak accidental testicle injury. I guess that probably does stand out somewhat in academic writing! I've been picking at the edges of the house, cleaning a little bit at a time, but I need to buckle down and actually do some useful stuff. I've been in the frantic energy stage where I can devote any amount of time and attention to anything so long as it is not at all useful. Hopefully now that the inauguration has happened, things will settle down some and I'll be able to concentrate on stuff again. Knock on wood!