A responce!

Adobe are arranging a "callback" for me, so as to guide me through the situation. At least the's something. Now I jst have to decide on when for them to call.

CS5 Restored

It seems I have finally been able to reinstall Adobe CS5 (HURRAY).

Luckily I was able to find a discussion in the Adobe Forums by someone who had exactly the same circumstances and problem. The solution (if such it might be called) was manually killing the AdobeAIRInstaller process via the task manager (although I used something called Process Explorer) whenever it froze. That was three times for my install!

In retrospect I can posit some causes for this problem, which didn't occur when I originally installed CS5 last year:

• Incompatibility with a new CPU (unlikely);
• Incompatibility with a change in Win7 because of subsequent updates (which would explain why the last install went like clockwork);
• My Win7 system might be slightly corrupt (and yes, I know some would say that Windows period is corrupt) and something that should have been there wasn't. This is quite likely, but a new install of Windows can wait a l-o-n-g time.

Anyway, I still have a heap of things to do, like restore a whole bunch of swatches and other stuff that I didn't backup, because I didn't know how. You'd think for any program (not just CS5 ones) that has a whole series of preferences and presets, the programs themselves would give you a way to export and import this settings. No such luck (or at least none that I know of in this case).

And where has all this got me? Back to my starting point, I'm afraid. Fireworks intermittently resets its preferences and loads the default keyboard shortcuts. Is that fixed? I won't know if and until it happens again. Sigh.
 

Out back

It was quite pleasant sitting on the re-cushioned sofa out the back under the trees - reading a volume of The Invisibles (Morrison knows his pop culture) while the TV in the garden shed played an episode of Iron Chef.

I hadn't done that for sometime (mostly because it was impossible while the pups were here) but I used to do it a fair bit in pre-digital TV summer days, sit out there with Pegasus and occasionally Gabby the cat.

I keep writing notes in my morning pages about the need to clean up and do some housework. Did the dishes this morning and that was about it. It's just too fucking hot to have anything other than the minimum amount of energy. When I went out on the bus for shopping yesterday, the wonderful air-conditioning was starting to put me asleep! If I have the money for it I should investigate getting something that will cool this place down in Summer (air-conditioning is only one answer).

And maybe I've got this backwards. Maybe instead of moaning about not getting to the housework, I should be moaning about not getting to the comics. I mean it was so frustrating the last few days not having either Fireworks or Photoshop, and now I do.

Time to do something about that.