Success! Accomplished something this week!

Success! Well, something of note accomplished this week. Got H.o.p.’s new-old (my old one) computer up and running and pretty much all spic and span ready for him. Powerful enough (for now) for what he’s doing. Kind of. Maybe. We’ll see.

Poor kid needs a new monitor. His is making click click click sounds now (noticed that yesterday) and see today that the browser page is *totally* burned in on the freaking thing. It’s a very old monitor and the screen is now a light brown instead of a bright white. Gack. If we got him a cheap flat panel he’d go nuts over it. Later….

To prep for this had to download everything off the old machine and will load it back on before he gets up. And I had to go through and film about 150 small animations he’d made on his old animation program. Took me hours to do it because the user interface on the animation program is insanely unfriendly. I know the last batch I loaded up numbered 72 so am assuming the first batch was around the same number.

Am purchasing Flipbook Lite for H.o.p. tonight so that when he gets up in the morning it will be there on his computer, ready to use. It is a very lite program with one foreground layer, one background layer and holds up to 300 frames. It should be enough for an 8-year-old though…

If we can get his computer online. For some reason it’s not going online.

There, now it’s online. About 4 am and it’s online and I’m getting ready to download his animation software.

Got it downloaded (they could have provided a correct download address) and trying to install it.

We’ve never had an email client set up for H.o.p. on his machine. So we just set it up and it will not send out for him. There’s something screwy going on there. So will use online email. I’m gonna make myself some cocoa. And we continue to have problems. His email client won’t work at all now. Was working for incoming mail then wasn’t working for outgoing and is not working for incoming now. Damn.

Hmmm….need the registration number for the Flipbook, not the invoice. OK, got the registration number and am trying to register it, have tried to register it 3 times but it’s not working. Registration is not working. I keep trying to register and it won’t register. I keep sending the email to the appropriate place and am getting no response.

So, screw it. H.o.p. will not have the animation program on his computer in the morning! Damn. So much for that. And it’s 5 AM.

I remembered my cocoa and got it out of the microwave and am now at least trying to use the demo version of Flipbook, which H.o.p. will not want to do as in playback mode it’s covered by FLIPBOOK copyright etc. This program is not as easy as I hoped it would be. I’m going to have to go through the pains of learning it myself first, in depth, and then try to teach him.

Ugh.

So mommy’s going to have to learn how to do computer cell animation. Just what I always wanted to spend time doing (not). And need to contact Flipbook for the registration number and as it’s Labor Day weekend I bet you anything I won’t hear back from them until Tuesday. Oh well.


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