Healer Ending

I finally dreamed up an ending for Healer that satisfies me. I'm going to have to start writing up that story before I forget all of the good ideas that came to my during restless slumber.

I've gotten tired of trying to print out numerous text pages on the inkjet printer (ink costs a fortune) and of being unable to get it to print on the laser, so I spent the day installing Windows XP on my chameleon computer, the one with interchangable operating systems on removable drives, now named "VARIABLE". I couldn't get sharing to work between my old WXP system, named "AUTHOR", and the Linux modules, so I'll just move my writing to the other machine.

I made the install, then tried to download some software -- FireFox and associated extensions -- but the new installation kept wanting to upgrade. I allowed it to upgrade itself four times. By then, the Sun Java extension wanted an upgrade of its own. Every upgrade required rebooting the system at least once (as did, collectively, the FireFox extensions). The computer has been booted more today than in most months.

Maybe I shouldn't be allowed to do upgrades. I tried to upgrade AUTHOR's FireFox from 1.0.6 to 1.5 just a few days ago. It took me several days to recover from that problem. Now, with no time to enjoy the fruits of my labor, I've done another upgrade. It's like pounding my head against the wall ... will it really feel better when I stop?

In the next few days, I'll have to install my writing programs on VARIABLE and bring the associated files across. Maybe I can also get the printer sharing to work between two Windows machines. I got nothing useful done today. I didn't even open my email.

If you want to know what kind of ending I came up with, you'll have to buy the books when I finish them.