I've been let down...

I was planning on doing a running blog of our trip to Branson, just because I could do it, and it seemed like a neat idea. Turns out I can't do it after all. Verizon, the company that provides me cell phone coverage just about everywhere I go, won't let me do any messaging out here. I'm on the "Extended Network" (a.k.a. roaming, but for free) and the only thing that works is the phone. Fortunately the resort has a hot spot in their visitors center, so I can at least log in and do this much. The other annoying thing is -- I've finally updated my notebook to XP (and on a new 60GB drive) only to discover that I forgot the patch I need to make the DVD Rom drive in the notebook read ordinary CD's. So I can't update anymore of the software in the machine. I also can't find the right softpaq on the HP website to fix it!

What a bummer...